Trying to get as much privacy as possible.

Okay. With all this regulation going on, the attacks on privacy and so on, I want to try and get as private as possible.

I know I can use Monero, but how do I obtain it without anyone knowing?

The government knows how much crypto I hold, and my wallet address (because of taxes), so I don't feel like I can just convert my holdings into Monero, since they would be able to see the transaction from my wallet.

Mining seems to be pretty inefficient without a better pc than I have (tho I am going to test it out for a while), so I'm kind of out of ideas.

Another question I have is, TailsOS, is it worth using? I wouldn't be using it for criminal purposes, only privacy.

I would also like to try and build a hardware wallet using open source code if that's in any way possible. Does anyone have any experience with this? I'm pretty okay with building small electronics and soldering (if that's necessary).

I know i can Google a lot of this, I'm just wondering if anyone here has any experience using these things.