Why would the writer keep giving a lack of integrated Google account sync as a limitation of privacy focused browsers? Especially when they’re trying to free themselves from control by American companies and mention Google specifically? Seems like a feature rather than a limitation to me.
TKDR Skip the first 6 paragraphs if you want to avoid a potential echo chamber, otherwise read and feel whatever you feel.
The article mainly focuses on FOSS. It is very detailed going into browsers, then cloud services, etc. This article doesn’t go into hardware.
On a related note I highly recommend studying this HUGE all inclusive page on building your own. More power to you. https://wiki.futo.org/wiki/Introduction_to_a_Self_Managed_Life:_a_13_hour_%26_28_minute_presentation_by_FUTO_software
I don’t think a factual account of what’s happening in America right now qualifies as an echo chamber.
For anyone who has been recommended Joplin and found it kind of clunky and ugly, I want to throw a shout out to Notesnook. You can self host it, it’s beautiful, and it’s absolutely brimming with great features. And any of your notes can easily be exported in markdown so there’s no lock in.