• /boot and root partition: i dont use swap (i dont need it, i have plenty of ram) and i usually encrypt the root partition with luks
• ext4: ppl keep telling me btrfs is better and all that but idk shit about filesystems and ext4 just works
• any x11 wm: currently im using qtile and ive used bunch of wms in the past
• alacritty: its fast and it has easy config with great doc
• firefox with arkenfox userjs, ublock and tor proxy configuration
• (neo)vim
• qemu/kvm/virt-manager
• doas
• fish shell

“discussing privacy on discord” that should be a joke anyways i created privacy@conference.jabbers.one so join if you want

i dont think anyone using google services is “privacy conscious”

open source ppl likes shitting on free software ppl so yeah

thats actualy one of the reasons i stopped using matrix - synapse kept crashing my server lol

but i should also mention that XMPP servers have less documentation/tutorials, i spent an entire week just to get prosody to work as i wanted it to

i would argue that matrix is not decentralized enough (almost everybody is on matrix.org)

also all popular XMPP clients (conversations, gajim etc.) supports OMEMO and OpenPGP/PGP out of the box

just dont use those services? even if you find a way to bypass this, you wont get anything out of it, they will still collect all of your data such as your location, device information etc.

not going to school would be the best option