IMPORTANT CONTEXT:

This is just my PLANNED setup, so not everything will be garenteed to be my final setup

The reason why I use multiple services for each use case:

1. I'm taking decentralization to the local level, which means NO connection between smartphone, Laptop, PC and TV
2. Fallbacks if the service or app doesn't work

Google Search

1. Mojeek
2. Margnialia (self-hostable)
3. YaCy (self-hostable)

• Fallbacks:

1. DuckDuckGo
2. Qwant
3. Ecosia

Google Chrome

1. FREE Browser
2. LibreWolf
3. Tor Browser

Google Mail

1. FairEmail
2. TutaNota
3. Proton

Google Maps

1. CoMaps

• Fallbacks:

1. Gmaps WV

YouTube

1. Peertube (Platform) (Self-hostable)
2. Invidious (Frontend) (Self-hostable)
3. FreeTube (Client) (Self-hostable)
4. PlasmaTube (Client)
5. Flow (Client)

Android

1. GrapheneOS

Google Workspace

1. MA Office
2. LibreOffice
3. OnlyOffice

Google Keep

1. Notally
2. Loqsec
3. Notesook

Gboard

1. Iris Keyboard
2. Xime IME (for Chinese input)

Google Translate

1. Offline Translator
2. LibreTranslate
3. Lingva Translate

Google My Files

1. Fossify File Manager
   (Idk any Linux file managers)

Google Photos

1. Prism Gallery
   (Idk any Linux gallery apps)

Google Play

1. F-Droid (Platform)
2. Flathub (Platform)
3. Appteka (Platform)
4. Aurora Store (Client)
5. Droid-ify (Client)
6. ObtainX (Client)

Google Earth

1. GeoLibre
2. Marble

Google Messages

1. Fossify Messages (SMS)
2. SimpleX (Platform)
   (Idk any Linux SMS apps)

Android System Webview

1. Vanadium

Bilibili

1. Bilimiao

Video editor

1. LibreCuts
2. Kdenlive
3. Cutwire Drift

Photo editor

1. PocketvPaint
2. GIMP
3. Pinta

Reddit (also also kinda Twitter too)

1. Lemmy (Platform)
2. Voyager (Client)
3. Redlib (Frontend)

Windows

1. CachyOS with Shelly
2. Nobara

VPN

1. Windscribe VPN
2. Proton VPN
3. Tor VPN

DNS

1. Adguard DNS
2. Quad9 DNS
3. NextDNS

Minecraft

1. Luanti (game)
2. Prism (launcher)

Wordle

1. Code Word

Convenience tools

1. LibreFind
2. sustysubs.net
3. DNS toggle
4. Privacy Flip
5. SponsorBlock
6. DeArrow
7. ReturnYouTubeDislike

• iris keyboard integrates Copilot, doesn't sound like you want that
• gmaps wv is out of development for 4 years now and doesn't work very well anymore.

Iris Keyboard has the option to disable Copilot

• gmaps wv is out of development for 4 years now and doesn't work very well anymore.

There is actually active fork of gmaps webview, which works fine (for now anyway): https://github.com/woheller69/maps

Hey, you're the one on the journey of de-googling, it's your decision.

However, one of the reasons many ppl degoogle is because we are lied to all the time by software companies.

Iris keyboard also says "network permission is optional until triggered by translation", and the iris keyboard immediately asks for network permission on install, so trust that as much as you like.

https://github.com/woheller69/maps

That is gmaps wv. The last commits 2 years ago were for weblate translation and license updates. The commits before that were to update cradle keyrings 4 years ago.

Gmaps wv is a dead project, look at the issues people submitted to get an idea what was broken when:

• streetview link stopped working in early 2024
• no access to fine grained GPS location since 2023
• problems with access to location providers altogether

Google is actively breaking anonymous access to gmaps, so those things are also breaking

The actual webview that is dead https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/maps

This fork is active and fixes stuff if something is broken, so at the very least it will be alive a little longer.
Last release was 5.0, 2 months ago, with fixes for street view.

Gmaps wv is a dead project

Meh, not really. It is absolutely not dead for my usecase, for example.
You still have streetview to some extend, still more full information about some places compared to OpenStreetMaps, photos, reviews of places, sometimes more correct pathways. So not exactly dead project.

It will become dead once google will entirely block anonymous access ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Google is actively breaking anonymous access to gmaps, so those things are also breaking

Yes, I am aware of that, but until google completely make not possible to use their maps anonymously — something akin to gmaps webview will have its use.

It appears you are interested in self hosting, may I suggest a few addtions/alternatives:

Search
SearXNG; you can add Mojeek, DuckDuckGo, and Bing (a lot of ecosia results come from Bing) that way there are no ads and trackers.

Mail
Find a good host and get your own domain, make sure it comes with a wild card email option so you can make a new email for everything when you no longer want something sending you emails you either bounce the address and/or have everything deleted automatically. Plus you get the benifit of unlimited free trials, rofl. I use EasyDNS.

Photos
Immich; it is an open source self hosted photo container I have been using it for a couple of years now and it is great.

VPN
If it is not going to cost you a kidney get a static IP and host wireguard into your LAN, you get your searXNG and Immich when you are away from the LAN. Of course you are going to have to get a firewall, may I suggest a managed one that you can install a vanilla OpenWRT on, I say managed because that offers vLANs and guest networks.

DNS
Pi-hole or ad guard home, I personally use Pi-hole but that is because years ago that is the first one I came across and tuned it to how at the time I liked it. I tried ad guard but did not like it as much as pihole (do not ask me why that was years ago). I have it much finer tuned now, sure there are still some sites that block me because of ad blockers but many that used to do not anymore. Add onto those with Unbound. If you VPN into your LAN you get this as well, you can setup different lists for different vLANs and everything. Your own self hosted ad blocker is 100’s of times better than any app. I still use youtube in Librewolf with ad guard and sponsor block, I am hoping to switch to Invidous in the next few weeks when I get a hand me down computer.

Other
With your own domain you can host things over the WAN, or you can keep it to the LAN or certain vLANs but give it names and the such. I personally use Caddy to orginize my services on my LAN/vLANs.
Vaultwarden; you are not relying on a third party for all your passwords and 2FA keys, you can use the Bitwarden app to sign in and you get all the premium features for free. Just make sure you have off site backup.
Paperless-ngx; you get to store important documents with smart tags.

Idk much about SearXNG. Idk what you just said about Mail, VPN, DNS. Please use simpler terms.

It ASKS for permission, not FORCES. Big difference here

Yeah, and the documentation says it won't ask until translation is invoked. On android 14 and up, that permission will be asked AT INSTALL.

Look, do what you like. If you don't care what people tell you, I'm not sure why you're asking.

Cool Beans, Debian and its forks are my favourite flavours of Linux.

I have a fleet of Pi’s running services, an old 2014 mac mini running different services booted with Debian, and a Flint 2 with a vaniella install of OpenWRT (it comes with OpenWRT but I flashed it with a clean install), I am hoping to get a 2018 hand me down Mac mini in a few weeks that I will install Debian on; My first pi going down the list is a pi 0 2 that runs crowdsec, port 22 is the SSH port the only things on my LAN that use port 22 for ssh is my firewall and the pi 0 2. On a pi 4 I run Home Assistant OS and it does most of my smart home stuff. On my first pi 5 I have many services I checked out Docker to see whatever was running all I know is there are many things running. The things I have running on there for this conversation I will say are: Caddy, to give my devices and services simple domain names for me to remember and https. Paperless-ngx, it keeps my documents sorted with this I could include CUPS and SCANserjs for my printer/scanner. I have immich, for my photos. I have vaultwarden running to keep my passwords and 2FA things running sadly I still have an iPhone and iPad but even if I was using something else I can sign into Bitwarden with my vaultwarden domain (if it is on one of my vLANs). Than I have SearXNG setup on it with it getting its stuff from a few different search sites. The final two things I will mention is Pi-Hole and unbound this is one of my 2 instances of pihole I use its IP address as one of my DNS, unbound works along with this some how. You will find people arguing adguard home vs pihole all over the place I tried adguard but came back to pihole, any who it is a whole home adblocker that I have set up to block different things on different vLANs. On my second Pi 5 I have Ghost that is running my simple blog, I am in the process of moving it to a VPS because I want it hosted elsewhere. The second pihole runs on this pi as a secondary DNS. Mentioning my VPS I also have my stuff backing up to it every morning, had I looked into the encryption choice I choose I would have gone with something different than age, it does what I want it to do but it is coded in go. On my third and final pi 5 I have it running the GUI raspberry pi os with most of the things uninstalled but I installed Librewolf with some adguard plugin and sponsor host block to block Youtube ads and skip sponsors and it is attached to my TV. Than the 2014 Mac mini I have Debian running to run Jellyfin and the *arr stack. My flint 2 has several different vLANs to keep things apart from things like my IoT vLAN cannot reach into anything other than my Home Assistant (the pi 4). The 2018 Mac Mini I will hopefully be getting soon as a hand me down will replace the TV pi 5 I will install Debian on it and will be able to have the Jellyfin app rather than just using the browser and figure I may figure out how to use the Youtube thing you mentioned or stick with Librewolf I also have a subscription to Nebula I am unsure if I will have to use Librewolf or if there is an app, I am getting the hand me down Mac mini because the pi 5 is not quite strong enough to have replaced everything I used my old AppleTV 4k for. I will likely use HA to create a remote for the TV/Mac mini.

My Flint 2 is a smart router so each of the 5 ports can go to different vLANs, and it can host many different SSIDs that have access different vLANs. It also hosts my VPN so that I can access all my services on my LAN when I am away from my LAN the app I use to access my VPN is wireguard.

EasyDNS hosts my VPS, my domain name, and my email, I use IMAP because POP3 needs to die and I refuse to use exchange! My previous (HostHero) host charged me a boat load of money for unlimited email addresses, because they did not offer a wildcard option so I had to go into cPannel and create a new email address before giving it out, with easydns they have a wild card option so I can create a random email at any time and it forwards to my email which is than sorted into folders. I use a formula of servicename_Saskatchewanslagand3randomnumbers@mydomain.ca, once or twice I used it for extended free trials.

I tried Nextcloud but I feel it tries to do to much and fails at everything, I am sure hosted ones are better but I have only had problems with the self hosted version I would love to find another file server rather than smb or sftp. I have other services for contacts and calendars, not sure which ones. I sadly still use Apple Pages and Numbers because there is no real good app that the Libreoffice stuff on my devices. In the future I plan on replacing my iPhone with either the Motorola phone that can install GraphenOS or I may find something else I am still a few months away from needing a new phone, when I need to replace my iPad I will probably get a Laptop hopefully with a touch screen. I may go with a framework Laptop just so I do not pay for the preinstalled windows and install Debian and because it is upgradeable. I am done with using closed source OS’s and service’s, it is all FOSS going forward (as much as I can).

Sorry if I over explained some points, under explained some points, sorry if you feel I am belittling you with the references I am not meaning to. You can join the https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted group for learning more things.

netbird (and pangolin I believe) offer alternatives to getting a static IP address with their wireguard implementation.

so do many others, but I believe those two are the only fully open source solutions

I suggest taking a look at Organic Maps and while I don't know much about your specific VPN providers just in general you need to do deep research on the ownership structure of it to make sure it has no ties to Israel or Zionists.

CoMaps is a community-driven fork of Organic Maps and people say CoMaps is much better

I would suggest FUTO Keyboard and NewPipe (for youtube)

I wouldn't use FUTO as they don't make truly FOSS software and I wouldn't use NewPipe either because there are much better YouTube clients out there