You can’t use a modern mac without hardware disk encryption; turning on FileVault in the UI is a no-op, security wise. (It does give you a recovery key to write down, which is good.)
You also can’t set a 90 day message expiration in Signal. 4 weeks is the maximum.
It’s insane to me that someone is talking about digital privacy hygiene and still using gmail. This basically invalidates the entire argument.
Protonmail also is a major UX downgrade; I recommend selfhosting an IMAP server for long term mail storage and using a service like Fastmail for your inbound email to replace gmail. Periodically move everything from your email provider to long term storage in your selfhosted IMAP server.
I don't recommend self hosting your own server, because most of the people I care about would not be capable of either doing that, or doing it securely; like 99.9% of people . We really need to have a world in which at least some service providers can actually be trusted. This is particularly true for communications, because the provider of all the people you are talking to each have a copy of your data.
There are probably valid situations for self hosting, but a bit like prepping, it is not a method of sustaining civilization, but an attempt to survive it's fall; suitable for only low numbers of people.
You also can’t set a 90 day message expiration in Signal. 4 weeks is the maximum.
It’s insane to me that someone is talking about digital privacy hygiene and still using gmail. This basically invalidates the entire argument.
Protonmail also is a major UX downgrade; I recommend selfhosting an IMAP server for long term mail storage and using a service like Fastmail for your inbound email to replace gmail. Periodically move everything from your email provider to long term storage in your selfhosted IMAP server.