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If you do !sp instead of !g, you get google results, but filteret through startpage, which should protect a little bit of your privacy.

Being "nibbled at by a few" could be beneficial when it comes to privacy. Using many services means no single service has a large amount of data about you.

> DuckDuckGo: I find myself hitting !g often enough for more "fuzzy" searches

I find myself doing this, too, from time to time, but I have come to rely on the "bang shortcut" feature for so many other sites. It's a great feature.

> ones where I'm looking for German content.

I've found their handy country toggle switch at the top of the page works better and better for this sort of thing recently.

> Bing/OpenStreetMap

There's also wego.here.com but with the amount of wonderful work that goes into the OSM community, the quality of their data, and the polish of some of the modern SaaS options for devs like Mapbox and Mapzen, it really surprises me that the UX on openstreetmap.org itself remains so basic and... not very useful.

> Mobile situation ain't that great.

In case you're still looking, can't recommend Maps.me highly enough.

For mobile maps, have you tried https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.osmand.plus ? I'm not sure how good navigation is in there (never tried), but having local OSM maps is great

Yes, I used that. It worked pretty well and the map download features was rather convenient on vacation. Still got lost in Venice, but I won't blame that on the app...

I love OSM (I contribute whenever I can!), and navigation on OsmAnd~ is possible, but Google Maps is far, far easier to use. I really struggle with a Google Maps replacement; I've also tried "Here We Go" but it doesn't hold a candle to GMaps unfortunately

Yeah, for navigation Google Maps is hard to beat.

Everything else I strongly prefer OSM though: their maps are (at least around here) way better, esp. if you aren't driving, they are offline, the apps are less laggy, ...

> - gmail/calendar -> fastmail. I still miss a few features of the gmail web interface, but in general I'm very happy with the switch.

I've heard good things about fastmail, but is there a provider that hosts open source calendar software? I think I'd slightly prefer that.

To sort of answer your question, I use Fastmail to host my email and contacts, and I self-host Nextcloud, and that has my calendar and tasks. I use Caldav to have Fastmail see my calendar/tasks, and it is entirely transparent to me.

I can also have Fastmail host my calendar/tasks, and that can use caldav as well.

I use mailbox.org, they use a customized Open-Xchange. Not sure if it is the open source community edition, though.

I use mailbox too. It is privacy minded email/caldav host with great price and nice ui.

I am not sure if they use any proprietary software though.

There's a calendar in Kolab: https://kolabnow.com/feature/calendar

NextCloud has CalDAV and CardDAV extensions for contact & calendar syncing just like Google. It's self-hosted, though.

>I still miss a few features of the gmail web interface, but in general I'm very happy with the switch.

Curious what features you miss from Gmail?

> - reader -> feedbin. Yeah, as if I had a proper choice.

I don't know about feedbin, but if you're looking for an alternative to reader, inoreader works reasonably well, and doesn't feel like it is missing too many features.

I was mostly talking about having no choice but to move away from Google. There's plenty of choice to move to, and after Old REader, Feedly and TinyTiny RSS I ended up with Feedbin. I could do with a desktop application if I didn't use it from both work and home (don't even care too much about mobile).

I see, I thought you meant the opposite because I had a hard time finding a good replacement myself. I think I tried the 3 others you mentioned and didn't find them suitable to my preferences at the time either.

> But it's hard to get by just with F-Droid apps alone

You can use Yalp to download free Google Play apps. But you'll still need Google Play Services most of the time.