I feel like this is specifically targeted at the one user posting stuff on the linuxsucks community

Nah you’re just reading the voltage instead of its logical representation

Man, imagine being in a financial situation where you could afford to turn down a job just because of if the OS you’d be using

Android (currently) is an open-source operating system. Just because you develop for it doesn’t mean your reliant on Google, or have to interact with them in any capacity.

Well, if you have the option you could set up a virtual network through the VPS and have a box with pfsense or something to route all traffic through. Take this with a grain of salt - I’ve seen this done but never done it fully myself.

Basically yeah, though I didn’t specify hardware because of how often virtualization is done now

I mean if you’re hosting anything publicly, you really should have a dedicated firewall