No worries. When you are receiving, all you are doing is providing an address to the sender. Nothing is being signed by you. There was a fun moment of bitcoiner history when people were sending small amounts of bitcoin that had gone through some coin joining process to addresses known to be those of notable people, because exchanges (and apparently authorities) were flagging these and denying people access to their accounts. This can happen because the reciever is not a participant in the transaction.
Your software likely provided you with an address to receive bitcoin at some point. You can use (and re-use) this address without doing anything in the software. The tricky part is if you eant to generate more addresses - some people advocate using a new address for every transaction. Generating addresses is where you might want to use software, but once you have your private key, you can use offline tools to derive/generate additional addresses. I can dig up some links if you need.
On the sending side, you will need to create and sign a transaction, and broadcast that transaction so it can be mined into a future block.
Again, there are offline software tools you can use for each step of this. For signing the transaction, you migjt even want to try something called a seed signer - its a hardware device, but one you can build from scratch. When you are ready to broadcast the signed transaction, that has to be done online, but there are multiple options for how you might do this.
All of this is assuming you generated your original seed phrase with your ledger. After you did this, you copied it down to paper, and you could take that ledger and destroy it if you wanted, but still be able to use that wallet.
You may need to use the ledger live software long enough to load the bitcoin wallet app onto the ledger device, but after that it can be uninstalled and never used again.
I have a ledger nano x, was my first hw wallet. I still think it has value, but only when used carefully and thoughtfully. It is wiped clean right now, and I doubt I've plugged it in for 2+ years.
Your choice of how you use your devices is ultimately yours, but what Ledger caught heat for saying is true - ultimately on any hardware device, you are trusting the firmware developers to some extent. If you can prevent that device from ever connecting to anything that might allow it to leak your data, then you don't have to trust that the firmware doesn't leak data.
Look for ledger videos from nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8. Then maybe look at some hardware videos from nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx. I was working through this for myself in 2020 and 2021, and was able to find resources then, but it has been a while. It is a deep rabbit hole to go down, fair warning.
