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Would you be able to let us know the services you used, the replacements, and how did the migration process work?
Proton for email and cloud storage. Graphenos on a pixel 7a for phone. Phone spps from aurora and fdroid. Kagi.com paid search engine too.
Protonmail is a free service with an optional subscription for extra features you almost certainly won't need
This. I used it for multiple months on the free plan and it worked perfectly.
Seconded.
Without a single word on replacements for email, calendar, phone, etc... this post is pretty much useless to everyone else than the OP.
I replaced most of that with proton mail and grapheme is which ironically requires a pixel
No sandboxed Google Play services yet? Can be challenging without.
not sure if this helps, but i believe using a separate android profile/user is the same as sandboxing, although less convenient
See above. Plus I use Thunderbird for calendar.
Great, thanks!
How does Thunderbird work for you wrt to sharing calendars with others (eg. family) and syncing with eg. an Outlook calendar?
I only use Thunderbird calendar for myself so I don't know. Proton includes a calendar offering in their package but I have not tried it yet.