Yeah, it can be easy to forget we don’t all have the same tech skill nor same amount of time to dedicate to honing it. On the desktop, I moved to the easiest Linux distro for me…on the phone I tried Graphene and Lineage, and giving each a day to try to make work for my use-case, neither did, so I reluctantly went back to Android. I intend to try again, but in the meantime, I’ve decided using Android, not logged into a Google account, and not using any Google apps inside it is my equilibrium between my desire to de-Google and the amount of time and effort I can currently put in.

Shout out to Freetube as an ad-free YT front-end replacement

Desktop: https://freetubeapp.io/#download
Android: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/io.freetubeapp.freetube

Check out Vela maps https://github.com/PimpinPumpkin/Vela

De-googled version of Google Maps