vinney on Nostr: Be prepared to watch a few YouTube videos to understand the Google Play Services ...

Be prepared to watch a few YouTube videos to understand the Google Play Services stuff, app permissions and particularly Storage Scopes. And don't be too hard on yourself if you have to start with some Google stuff turned on and then slowly work away from it.

Here are a bunch of my most-used apps:

Markor (synced with Syncthing)
Etar
Syncthing
OwnTracks
Aegis
PhotoSync (to home machine)
PhotoPrism PWA
Pocketcasts or Antennaepod
NewPipe
Tor
JuiceSSH
DavX (for Baikal below)
F-Droid store
Aurora Store
Tasks (F-droid)

Some of these will be best used if you're running a few of your own cloud services. I run these on a single VPS using docker containers with Traefik in front for subdomains and SSL:
- Baikal (CalDAV, contacts, tasks)
- Miniflux RSS
- Linkwarden bookmarks
- File Browser (https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser)
- https://gethomepage.dev (screenshot below)
- Nostr-rs relay

I use PWAs for most of the above self-hosted services.

Also when you feel like it's look into setting up different account profiles. I have a "Goolag" profile for some Google apps that I occasionally need for work, another profile for baking apps, another profile for crypto apps. Another "burner" profile with WhatsApp and other utter trash that I occassionally need access to but I keep highly segregated.

My daily driver profile tries to avoid most of those and leans towards self-hosted and privacy-respecting services.