I use Magic Earth for driving directions and Organic Maps for looking around on a map, as imo Magic Earth sucks for inspecting a map.
I occasionally pair them with Transportr for public transit.
I do also still keep Google Maps around, as it just still is the best app for navigation. Sometimes I will check which rough route Google Maps prefers, and then use Magic Earth for the actual navigation.
If you want to fully ditch the Google Maps app without losing Google Maps completely, you could also try GMaps WV, a WebView wrapper for the Google Maps website.
While I do mostly agree with your statement, it's incredibly annoying when I type in a local IP for my router or server and it automatically gets turned into https.
There are still reddit repost bots, but they are all on reddit repost instances. As I have those like two or three instances blocked, I don't see any of them.
I will once again shill for Proxigram (not my project), the only? remaining FOSS instagram frontend. You can try it out on one of the public instances.
I'm not entirely sure if it supports opening Instagram links though.
That's an interesting point I hadn't considered, some quick searching however shows that (at least some) German banking apps are on APKMirror.
I can't speak for other countries though.
This comment about the app signature should apply to your situation too, you can't mess with an APK and then sign it with the Google Play keys.
APKMirror is the most trustworthy website there is for APKs out there, if you do some research you will see that the community consensus is it being pretty safe.
I do however understand your concern, especially when talking about banking apps. Honestly now that I think about it, for a banking app I'd rather make a burner Google Account as well. For less sensitive apps however, APKMirror is the best non Google way to get their APKs.
About the app, I have no idea, I only ever used the website (with uBlock).
Obviously it sucks that you need a Google account to access all these apps "properly" through the Play Store, for free apps they should really just let you download them without an account.
Another solution would be downloading the APK from APKMirror. I believe all their APKs signatures are checked against the proper Play Store releases or something like that (don't quote me on that), but the baseline is that all their APKs should be pretty safe.
While it's not at the same level as Graphene OS, Samsung is pretty well supported by Lineage OS.
AFAIK at least in Europe Samsung phones have an unlockable bootloader, but YMMV.
Duude I tried blindly plugging in a USB-C at the back of my PC ones, I was like "Aha, gotcha" and then my PC just shut down. First came confusion, then I realized it wiggled left and right. That was incredibly scary, luckily ASRock has good protection circuits so nothing happened.
But I sure as hell haven't blindly plugged in USB-C since then.
I don't know how well this fits your usecase, but Proxigram is a selfhostable website with which you can access Instagram anonymously. I don't think it supports following accounts in any way though.
I did also try making an android app for it, but that app is barely even able to display posts, and as I realized that I just don't use Instagram, I didn't really bother continuing it.
If anyone here is in the mood to make that app happen, feel free to use my humble beginnings as a starting point.
And the system would need to be installed in all street legal ebikes for that to happen.
Wouldn't street legal ebikes not go too fast by default anyway?
I feel like if that's the case, this would mostly inconvenience people with legal ebikes and have barely any effect on illegal ones that can go faster.
If you're ok with using your tablet as a drawing tablet with your PC, I use an app called Virtual Tablet for that. Sadly it appears to be Windows and MacOS only, but a quick search led to Weylus. I have no idea how well this works and never tried it, but from the readme it sounds pretty good.
At least in terms of addresses, I feel like Magic Earth is significantly better than Organic Maps.