I agree with you he is very smart in some things and has no malice. Only that Windows cannot be made safe but he claims it is because he is so stubborn on using video editor (adobe? eek)

VPNs are likely honey pots unless you host it yourself also I trust my ISP more than some random company on the Internet.

I have no such workload that would require non-free software but I use some proprietary software on Android with internet access blocked. I guess you could monitor your traffic to make sure they are not malicious, however Spotify, Netflix and many other common apps always have DRM malware built in them and you never know what other “features” they might have now or in the future.

I have not killed myself or someone else by far probably is due to strict gun control. If we were to have big problems with the government corruption I imagine we would manage to steal guns from the military if needed.

Deleted my facebook in 2012 but I still worry my data was stolen due to them not deleting it properly or at all. But I also do not trust inserting my phone number on some website even if it is open-source the live version might not be, it only takes few edited lines of code to record input, not much can be done with just phone number but still…