Skills/Benefits Gained from Embracing Online Privacy

What skills and benefits unrelated to privacy have you gained by becoming more private online? Aside from becoming more aware of my privacy, I’ve also indirectly gained a few skills along the way. * Managing my own music library on an mp3 player and learning how to tag my files (resulted from quitting Spotify and YouTube Music). I kinda had to relearn this after having a dependence on subscription services for so long. * Better time management due to not using social media as much. It’s surprising how much time you have during the day when you aren’t mindlessly scrolling. * Designed my own homelab with self hosted services (Ollama/OpenWebUI, Home Assistant) and flashing my routers with OpenWRT. * Learning networking, VLANs, and segmenting my network to isolate smart devices from my personal ones. * Ultimately becoming more technically inclined than I was prior. Overall, my privacy journey has helped me develop a lot more skills than I realized. I’d like to hear about the benefits you’ve noticed in your lives.