I know this is “buy European”, but In North America JMP.Chat is your answer (from memory they are Canadian). It uses XMPP for the client, so you can sign in using their official android app, or you can use any XMPP client, which there are for any basically imaginable platform. Their onboarding and setup wasn’t the most intuitive or straightforward when I used it (in 2021 maybe?) but it’s still not too bad if you’re minimally competent with computers. It’s open source too so you can audit everything they do! They are also over here on lemmy: https://lemmy.ml/c/sopranica

I think there is also Sudo privacy, but I’m not sure where they are from

That happens on some VPNs

Bruh so Nicole now has the text embedded in the image to make it harder to detect the spam

Intel is supposed to release their new gen of low power (U series) chips in the next month or two, if you can wait a bit, id suggest you do so because the current gen will certainly be on sale for the occasion. But I think the AMD chip will use less power under real life scenarios, while the Intel chip will likely be a little bit faster. Since the AMD is basically 70% of the price of the intel model, I would say save your money and go for AMD.