Yes, i See no reason why this shouldnt work, even without Google services installed it should work (but notifcations dont work properly, for that you could consider Molly and their unifiedPush implementation)

‘Permanently Pause’ seems like a oxymoron

No, that’s his signature Keta-tan

One just does

Even if I would see them I probably wouldn’t have enough money to benefit of of them

They also offered their .apk directly through their site with an included downloader last I checked, but I would love it to on f-droid

Do you mean IronFox or is there another fork I didn’t know yet

Yeah, i think its awesome and liberating to be more in control of my phone. I am rocking it for over a year now and haven’t had any major issues yet (I had more issues with the stock software of my Xiaomi I had previously). Except for some nasty apps (like some banking apps) everything works flawlessly for me!

I don’t think its helpful to combine a Tor and VPNs in most situations. Tor itself should be fine