Having your own Domain with Email is the hardest thing you can do.

Literally all Email Services will literally block you except you somehow manage a good Domain. No, I am not talking about the Spam folder. They will not even let that Email in.

Good point, using that too and syncing my database with syncthing between all the devices.

why not just Linux?

Choice paralysis is a real obstacle for casual users who don't have specific needs (e.g. anti-proprietary values) and don't want to know what a kernel or a binary blob is, we've even seen this with Lemmy and other Fediverse options. So giving a specific distro suggestion is effective for this, and then later enabling them to move to other distros if there's one more suited to them.

Linux Mint is generally well-received by beginner users, especially those moving from Windows which is similar enough to Cinnamon. Even if it's not the ideal distro, it's one which I believe casual users are less likely to reject. Hardware is more likely to 'just work', including graphics cards and non-free codecs. Non-free software readily appears in the app store, which is important if users are still dependent on them (e.g. their hobby group only uses Discord). While I personally believe in, support and create FOSS software, I don't see how FSF-endorsement is important to the target audience, and if it risks them complaining that their NVIDIA GPU is acting weird or they're having trouble installing proprietary tools they need for work, then I'd compromise and give them the smoothest reasonably-free option possible and allow them to decide to move to another distro later when they're more familiar with Linux and how easy it is to try out distros.

Which mail provider are you using?

Hmm, I wonder...does "my favourite pirate streaming service" count as avoiding big tech?

Droid-fy is a material F-Droid client though. And it is better. DuckDuckGo is USA using Bing engine, i am still using it when unhappy with Qwant results though. They need to add more time filters.

Actually this might make for a fun propaganda game: Set up a website where every person can mark, for each item on the list, whether they made the switch, so that in the end they receive a picture they can share on social media so as to engage in a low-key "competition" with their friends.

Haha, whoops, I've been using Futo Keyboard for month, (it's amazing!) not realizing that it's sponsored by the same company that also gives money to Immich, nice!

Yo I didn't know that was Louis Rossman!

Sure, that's technically true, but I think it's acceptable for this infographic's purpose.

• I don't believe a US company profits from someone using LibreWolf (unless you want to count volunteer labor if someone upstreams their contributions, which doesn't apply to most of the target audience)
• As you said, any other usable browser is going to be based on Chrome, FF or Apple tools. So what should it say? Nothing? Even if it's not perfect, I believe LibreWolf is a far better suggestion than just leaving them with a default choice like Chrome or Edge, or something unusable on sites they want to use.

Just become a gaming hermit that only emulates PS3 games and you'll be fine.