I would rather use turn-key, ready-to-use solutions made by someone more versed than me.
Privacy doesn't work like that. It isn't set-it-and-forget-it. If you aren't constantly policing yourself, all the full-disk encryption and Tor networks in the world can't keep you anonymous.
Switching on FileVault 2 on OSX makes things significantly more work and difficult for someone to attack you on that vector. Many times all you need is to make it annoying and expensive enough to be secure.
Most people in the USA have locks that can be picked in 10 seconds with an auto jiggler and windows that can be broken with a large rock. Most people don't have walls, interior locks and bars that will start making thieves to carry power tools. Yet that is enough to stop a lot of casual theft.
Privacy doesn't, but encryption does. You don't want to set up Tor or I2P only to find out later that traffic you thought was encrypted actually wasn't.
Privacy doesn't work like that. It isn't set-it-and-forget-it. If you aren't constantly policing yourself, all the full-disk encryption and Tor networks in the world can't keep you anonymous.