I use vendetta but you can bridge discord through matrix
Use spotube
Communism is ad free
I personal use graphhopper and it’s great but I’m sure my location is still tracked, maybe just not by Google now. You do what you can but there is no way to not have yourself tracked some way or another.
I’m sure it’s possible, don’t doubt that you could probably accomplish it. But why? Why do that? Just keep it on a USB, it’s designed for that.
Nano should work for editing dot files and you can find formats for most configuration files online if you aren’t familiar with them