I always wanted to do the same to my new Renault Twingo 2026 to get rid of all that google tracking stuff that they shoehorn everywhere.

The toilet lost, thats for sure.

Never open ports to the internet unless you want everybody to see it. Always use VPN to access your selfhosted stuff. If you’ve got a lot of VPN connections to set up, try generating a QR code for the connection. Makes it a bit faster to setup the client.