Paseo uses the health features of the phone which works fine. Unfortunately it doesn't support watches. But the accuracy is still pretty good in my experience
Never had this problem. I'm using Firefox on Windows and Android with another search engine for years now.
Notepad++ is one of the best applications ever made
I prefer signal, but if I had to use WhatsApp or telegram, I would go with Whatsapp. Facebook having all your metadata sucks, but at least your messages aren't stored on their servers for ever and it uses the signal protocol.
Most small search engines use bing results which are a hit or miss compared to Google.
Startpage is the only privacy focused one I found that uses Google search results. The UI is fine for the most part, except the image search maybe.
Edit: typo
Are you sure this is a DNS issue? If google.com can't be resolved it shouldn't run into a timeout. It should display an error message that google.com can't be resolved pretty much instantly.