What is not mentioned… there’s no privacy when the device itself is compromised. For instance, Android phones can read and phone home data from your notifications. In that case, any messenger app wouldn’t be private from Google’s eyes.

To be fair, it is official supported hardware for Mobian and PostMarketOS

Although syncthing is awesome, i use rclone to fetch the latest version of the password database. With syncthing, i would worry about collisions. Maybe would be better to sync it between two devices, Android and Linux.

Yes and no. You can store them in a free cloud account, provided you have local copies; there’s a risk your access to the cloud storage could be denied. A security risk is that they could harvest these databases, and decrypt them later.

I think your best bet, if you were to use free services, is to delete old databases from the cloud. Encrypt the new databases with the updated password manager and a new master password.

Mullvad has an option in the settings to enable their own DNS filters.

You can remove the (tracking) part in the URL after the question mark, like so https://resistmap.substack.com/p/they-took-his-gun-then-they-shot