Or you could have additional “access points” around your house that still just communicate with the voice assistant running on your computer on the same network. But no. It must be cloud. Your data must be harvested for the advertisers.

I got myself tied up so deeply in Proton… email, password manager, VPN, storage. Never doing an all-in-one service again. I’ll find separate services for each of these, and if one goes to shit, it’ll be less work and less time to switch.