Pine Time
I agree with that. It only has really the basic features, but honestly, I’m not using any other features on my Samsung smart watch anyway. I had one and it has one feature which makes it better then the regular smart watches, the battery life. If I remember correctly it ran for almost a week before I had to charge it again.
I found http://mxroute.com/ they offer sane prices for unlimited emails and domains. I’m in the middle of switching to them.
It’s not super easy, but at least possible in my Swedish https://www.varbergssparbank.se/
AirTags track without the need of a SIM card, they use other peoples iPhones to update the GPS of the beacon. Not sure how it aligns with your privacy respecting angle though.
Why did Zuck cling to this dangerous and obvious fallacy?
We can see that he does understand it and applies it to himself ad his family by not posting private things on Facebook and putting tape over his camera at the office:
So the answer to this article is already in the first paragraph:
It’s impossible to get a CEO to understand something when his quarterly earnings call depends on him not understanding it.
You can at least remove the aditional company by hosting the bridge yourself https://tube.jeena.net/w/rYhp4ZT5Ykw1aBGqMr62KG
But I don’t think OP was askiing for more private just for a alternative.
I collect all the text messangers in Matrix with bridges, including WhatsApp https://element.io/blog/element-one-all-of-matrix-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram-in-one-place/
After the Covid lockdowns there is a saying in China: