My on-site is my home.

In the traditional sense, yes. VPSs is somewhere between the classic self-hosting as you described and off-site managed hosting.

I think of VPS more like administrating a virtual server rather than actually self-hosting.

On-site self- hosting, on owned hardware. Who knows what’s going on behind the closed doors of data centers around the world.

And let’s not get into industry standard hardware backdoors remote control systems.

Being criminally stupid when planning crimes is pretty stupid.

Hmm, I’m not sure I consider tech bros, vibe coders and GUI dependents as tech people. The type of tech people I’m thinking of don’t seek to ease friction, they want to create a frictionless system.

Because that’s what the average tech idiot need - To be able to show off to the average idiot.

If idiots want to follow idiots, that’s a different issue.

Tech people have zero idea what privacy is or should be, and desperately look for anything to make then feel elites.

What you’re describing are ‘idiots’ and they’re in the tech field as well as saturating every other aspect of life.

Those with privacy systems truly worth flexing, won’t. So that excludes me as I don’t have any darknet only, privacy focused, self-hosted, deep encrypted systems at all.