I would recommend not downloading any app that isn’t open source that has that permission enabled to begin with.

I think the conventional wisom is diet is more important than exercise in losing weight, although I think most people would recommend working out once a week regardless if you would lose weight or not, basically any working out would be positive if you aren’t at all, it couldn’t hurt to do sit ups and push ups and see where that takes you.

which apps are seeing your shared storage when you export your contacts?

in a foss contacts app

I said in a foss one, I don’t think the foss developers are conspiring to get rid of your contacts, maybe for apple you might have to hope the developer doesn’t get burnt out, but the android foss community is pretty robust, but if you’re that paranoid just put them in a txt file or a spreadsheet.

https://www.davx5.com/

You might still have to use a gmail account for this though, depending on if your email works with it.

There’s also Nextcloud which would be self hosted.

And the extremely low tech solution of just having them offline in a foss contacts app and exporting backups from that app to your storage in case you lose them.

During World War II, in which he was rejected for military service, he was associated with the left wing of the British Labour party, but didn’t much sympathise with their views, for even their reckless version of socialism seemed too well organised for him. He wasn’t much affected, apparently, by the Nazi brand of totalitarianism, for there was no room within him except for his private war with Stalinist communism. Consequently, when Great Britain was fighting for its life against Nazism, and the Soviet Union fought as an ally in the struggle and contributed rather more than its share in lives lost and in resolute courage, Orwell wrote Animal Farm which was a satire of the Russian Revolution and what followed, picturing it in terms of a revolt of barnyard animals against human masters. He completed Animal Farm in 1944 and had trouble finding a publisher since it wasn’t a particularly good time for upsetting the Soviets. As soon as the war came to an end, however, the Soviet Union was fair game and Animal Farm was published. It was greeted with much acclaim and Orwell became sufficiently prosperous to retire and devote himself to his masterpiece, 1984.

I did not know it was finished in 1944, that is wild, no wonder it’s taught in American schools.

I would just type “photo editor” into F-Droid and browse, nothing on F-Droid will have ads. If you don’t have F-Droid installed follow this.

https://f-droid.org/docs/Get_F-Droid/

congratulations on independently coming up with Malthusianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism

Abacus Data found that Quebec was the province with the highest proportion of respondents (77 per cent) saying they are “absolutely against.”

No surprises here, I’m not gonna do the math, but that might push Anglo Canada up to a 1/3 open to it or something along those lines.

Droidify is a client of F-Droid, I wouldn’t say either is better, it’s preference.

I imagine they just want to recommend something already on F-Droid, and, I also imagine the IronFox people will start releasing on F-Droid directly soon vs having a added repo. But, adding the repo is not hard.

https://element.io/blog/

https://element.io/blog/element-x-is-now-available-with-lts-ess-24-10/

last post about Element X

Everyone would need to pack their own meals and bring their own tents to sleep in, most modern armies top out at a million people, imagine trying to coordinate anything with 100 million people, Tokyo has 40 million people and is the biggest city in the world, it would be logistically impossible on so many different levels