Philosophy vs practical execution (GOS vs FOSS vs Self-Hosting) (opens in new tab)

submitted by I’m probably overthinking it, but I’m interested to hear how people approach this. So I’m leaning more into FOSS and degoogling, so I ordered a Pixel for GOS. However, I recently learned that GOS recommends Play Store before any FOSS app stores. That kind of broke my brain and had me evaluating my goals and philosophy. Do you folks just set up a different GOS profile for Google stuff and keep using apps from Play Store without a second thought? Or do you lean into FOSS apps as mu...