It’s not wasteful if it’s a way to communicate outside all other ways.
It’s the price of having redundancy.

I find Feudal Tactics to be a lot of fun.

Windows 98 required far less disk space and was a complete operating system - that is if you consider Win98 an operating system…

The scale has been moved to a different level since the rise of internet communication beyond FidoNet.

Sounds like you’re on a great path!
Regarding email: have you considered getting your own domain and having emails associated with that domain hosted at a nice place?

Until they get broken up (if ever) you can reduce their power by avoiding them as best you can.

Goodbye, information era.
Welcome, manipulation era!
I know… we’ve been in the latter for some time.

I feel like this belongs here: Massive leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security workers—including undercover ICE agents

And eventually the companies behind them will get sued and have to pay about threefiddy in damages.

According to the linked article, a restored wallet is toast as well, because anything displayed by the screen can get grabbed and sent to the bad guys:

[…]they have installed an additional chip that intercepts the transmission from the Secure Element to the built-in screen and recognizes the displayed letters of the seed phrase […]Recognizing the characters alone doesn’t help the perpetrators yet, because the wallets fundamentally work offline. So the perpetrators have also installed an LTE modem, a tiny eSIM module, and a small antenna, all powered by the accumulator already built into the hardware wallet. Thus, the seed phrase is transmitted via mobile phone to the perpetrators, who thus gain control over the cryptocurrency assets secured by the seed phrase.

And so the good people of Ukraine continue to not only defend themselves, but a lot more people around the world.
Huzzah!

The local web, duh!