Welcome!

https://send.vis.ee/ or https://wormhole.app/

Ente gives you 10GB of storage for free so you have nothing to lose if you check it out. I used the free tier for photo backups and looks very similar to google photos. https://ente.io/#pricing

If you watch the video - its explained starting at 1:13, Moxie built it himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPRi7mAGp7I

Even better remove Edge all together via Wintoys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjc19jV9Q7k

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111563865413484025 this is the response from the president of the Signal Foundation to the question around push notifications and if google/apple can access your messages via this method.

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Calendar - on f-droid, simple and gets the job done https://github.com/OmGodse/Notally - on f-droid, simple with no bloat

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/best-newcomer-routers-2024/189050/2 this comes right from their forum and is a good list

ANOM?

…because why would you go to all the trouble to pay Mullvad (presumably to keep your sensitive information away from big tech) to then give it to google in the form of an e-mail should you reach out to Mullvad for support? Google would then suck up any and all data that comes via their gmail service.