searx or startpage are search engines that show google results so you could try them as a fall back before you finally try google. !searx and !sp are the bangs

searx or startpage are search engines that show google results so you could try them as a fall back before you finally try google. !searx and !sp are the bangs you can put anywhere in the DuckDuckGo query for maps, im really liking maps.me on mobile (its called "maps" in the fdroid store). its a good simple app that lets you add bookmarks and group them in folders, and its good for navigation since it has a 3d view. osmAnd is another great app but its more of a poweruser app that does a lot of things so there is a lot going on in the UI. i switched to protonVPN last year from PIA and im especially glad after seeing the smear campaign PIA were part of a few months ago where they were trying to stir up rumours about other VPN services. (one of them forget to remove their google account profile picture from one of the screenshots and was caught out that way). they provide a good service but whether you want to give your money to a shady company like that is up to you i use resilio sync myself. syncthing is open source so is probably the better choice for privacy, but im not in any rush to switch since nothing is being stored online. i have a few GBs of files on backblaze but havnt really started using it yet. is there anything shady about backblaze that i dont know about or are you just keeping things offline just to be safe?