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Ah, not to worry, even professionally it's very common to buy your wafers. I am on mobile data right now so I'll check out those videos later!
Basically, every single machine that needs a vacuum chamber - so almost all non-wet processes, like physical/chemical vapor deposition, reactive ion etching, scanning electron microscopy (although a good optical microscope will do if you're not at the nano scale... Which is almost certainly the case if you're doing things at home).
Honestly maybe I'm just too used to the lab setting and am underestimating how much you can actually do without vacuum processing. I'll take a look later: this all looked so out of the reach of an ordinary person that I never even considered following content creators who do this. Thank you!
I should mention I met someone IRL who makes their own vacuum tubes. You can own your own pump, although I don't know how it would stack up against what you're used to.
High vacuums are tricky. The first high vacuums were achieved with mercury-based Sprengel pumps, but mercury isn't available everywhere. Maybe you could make a small, slow turbomolecular pump work if it was mandatory (it's all about the bearing) but it seems anything that needs sealing is going to struggle without either that or a massive petrochemical industry to supply the needed high-quality synthetic oils. If you're doing technology all over again, I'd skip the vacuum tubes stage because of this.
If you can get away with a low vacuum, a piston-type pump with castor oil as the sealant will do. It seems like a low vacuum would work for at least some kinds of VD. Maybe you can help clear it up a bit.
1 micron features is as ambitious as I've bothered to think about. For basic computing, like to run a CNC machine, that should do.