Don't obsess with security and privacy unless they are your core business

Making a simple sandwich from ingredients is a full-time job that takes roughly 6 months. You grow chickens, fetch sea water, make bread from ingredients, and so on.

Only God can make sandwich instantly. If you try to make a simple pencil, it will probably take more than 6 months.

Now, consider security and privacy. Just constructing what seems to be a reasonably private and robust linux computer took at least a year of full-time effort. It is genuinely more difficult than making a simple sandwich from ingredients, and making a simple sandwich "from ingredients" is a full-time business by itself.

The cost of constructing a private linux computer with your "personal" labor is your business, your job, your health, your relationships, and everything else in your life. The cost of privacy is extremely high. You need to be okay with rough edges in your computing environment.

If you force yourself to make sandwich and pencil from ingredients, build a house, grow foods, run an e-commerce store, construct a private linux computer, and so on, then you will not be good at any one thing, and you won't be paid much. You are only paid as much as your best expertise. Only specialization can make you rich. If you try to scatter your energy into multiple things including security and privacy, you will remain poor.

If you want to become rich, you should have laser focus on your core business and sacrifice other things like excellent privacy.

Now, you know what it means to sacrifice. Sacrifice may even mean you use mac pro instead of a personally hardened linux desktop.