• pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 year ago

    neo store refuses to run if you don’t grant it the right to send notifications and bypass battery optimizations. if an app demands a permission and doesn’t have a plausible explanation why it needs it, i don’t keep it :/

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      1 year ago

      neo store needs the permission in order to run in the background and download apps. battery optimization may close neo store if other apps need more ram. it needs a persistent notification in order to show the user that it’s still running. that’s the modern way to show the user that an app is always running. GNOME is developing the same thing which is very good. Imaging facebook showing that notification, you’d know that facebook is running always in the background. Without that notification, the user knows that it’s not running. You may silence the notification. It takes some time to adapt to the new behavior and accept that there are always notifications running. you want the app to run, hence the notification is good.