privacy-respecting VS awesome-security-hardening

Curated List of Privacy Respecting Services and Software

You need to take a moment to realize it will be okay. You are going in the right direction, you just need to learn more https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y19RFmOxfVM https://git.nixnet.services/pluja/awesome-privacy https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/privacy-respecting https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech#community

There are many open source alternatives to operating systems, browsers, messengers, search engines, cloud storages, etc. Utilizing these more ethical softwares can be of assistance to improve privacy and security of your life. https://www.privacytools.io/ and https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/privacy-respecting are a great place to search.

Here is a list of applications that should be avoided and plenty of alternatives.

If you want to go extreme, I remember from many years ago, there used to be a publicly released document by Australia's cyber security agency, made largely for Windows, which used to list attack vectors on a complex scale. I used to follow their listed possible vectors to formulate threat models as a kid for my Windows computer. Back in the day they used to provide PDF, now its webpages (https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-content/advice/guidelines-system-hardening). This also exists (https://github.com/decalage2/awesome-security-hardening), a bit more wide coverage of OSes and practices.

Maybe these two repos can help you, I've used them both from time to time to look up stuff I have no idea about as a frontend main: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server https://github.com/decalage2/awesome-security-hardening

here is a collection of hardening guides This will get you started in the right direction.

This is called system hardening. Try looking for CIS Benchmarks, awesome hardening (github), STIG's ,mitre baseline, hardening kitty, hardening checklist