You can absolutely self-host onion services and bypass the use of VPN, if you’re serving web apps.

Entirely depends on your use case, though.

Agreed. This is what I use for my bittorrent server.

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I’ve switched back and forth between iOS and GrapheneOS over the years and I would agree that the keyboard is that hardest thing to get used to.

As much as people hate certain iOS features, the keyboard is excellent.