Not using any play services or g-mail. I use busybusy for work, it says I need the play service but it works without it. My credit Union app works fine. I never got into using my phone to pay, so haven’t tried that.

I had Calyxos and switched away from it also.
Really like the Grapheneos. Google pixels seem to be good hardware. I’m going to buy an extra 7,8,or 9 pixel. Not sure if newer pixels will stay as useable.

Yes

Saw that Man runs car into electric substation (AP) and wildfires ksn.com news happened the 19th. I haven’t yet found any news linking either of these to the shutdown.

It was really windy in a.m. As still pretty windy at 4 p.m. when I viewed them.