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I’ve moved away from google as much as I can whilst still having an android phone. A lot makes sense if you can self host things and ive found that to be invaluable, although it’s not for everyone and it has been a journey of discovery for me.

Email is via ProtonMail and Thunderbird on desktop.
I run my own Nextcloud that syncs photos etc from my phone.
Any docs stuff I use Libre Office.
Search is DuckDuckGo.
Browser is firefox and anything chromium can sod off.

I did use E/os on my phone for a while and liked it a lot. Completely de-googled android fork (even stock LineageOS has call backs and links tongoogle services). Nowadays I have a OnePlus Nord with all the google apps and services disabled. I use Aurora to access the play store anonymously and FDroid where I can.
Instead of YouTube app I use NewPipe which is really good.

Any stream / download is costing something.

Aurora is back up and running. I just logged in anonymously using it and I updated apps with it yesterday. If it finally comes to it I may just have to sign up for a google account and use it solely on Aurora, but I’ll try anything else first.

Whenever I use Windows I can’t get over how utterly terrible the basic file explorer is. I swear that it was better back in the XP days. On linux I use Dolphin and have found it to be excellent. Tabs, Split screens, everything is so usable.

I’ve used Thunderbird since it was released almost 20 years ago. It has some annoying bugs around setting up accounts (get your password right or it clears the whole form), but you do it once and it works wonderfully.