Unless you completely power off the radio you will still receive calls and messages. Some custom roms come with this option, but I don't know if it's possible to automate.
If you want to save more power, then enabling airplane mode and then turning wifi and / or bluetooth (depending on your needs) back on should save more power.
I think the situation here is similar to Telegram. Russian connections, but not in a impactful way. I use both without worries, but if this doesn't suit somebody, there are alternatives.
That's your decision. I experience no issues with my setup, but you do what you want.
There's something interesting about mobile banking. I constantly see stories of issues with it on non-stock / unmodified software. The funny thing is that I have never had any issues personally. Until recently my banking app worked even without Magisk's Denylist (and the most picky app was McDonald's). Now (since few months) I have to add it to Denylist, but that's the only requirement, no SafetyNet, no Play Integrity, nothing.
KernelSU? Hadn't heard of that one before.
It's relatively new, few months old at most and started as a joke.
Do you get proper compliancy with the Integrity API?
Screenshot_20230804-134241_Play Integrity API Checker
Feel free to ask more questions if you need. For me getting to this point was quite an experience, so I'd be happy to help.
Essential? no.
Worth it? maybe.
Nice to have control of your own device? absolutely.
I have two devices, primary with root (through Magisk as KernelSU still has some issues for me) and secondary without root. Anytime I have to do something more demanding on the unrooted device I really wish I had root. Local terminal access, ability to disable some annoying "features" (verified app links) and multiple other things I use daily make it worth it for me.
EDIT: I saw mentions of custom roms in other comments. I have a custom rom installed (AOSP based). If I was on a stock rom (or god forbid something like MIUI) root would be a must for me.
Doesn't play in the jerboa, but I love it regardless.
I think it's a different story with the original seasons. The intended version was 4 seasons, but Fox being Fox aired the episodes out of order, ending whenever they wanted and that's how 5 seasons came to be.
One might try to call it artistic privilege, but I don't think it holds when you're responsible only for distribution and not making.
I use MediaTracker which takes information form imdb and tmdb and it labels it as following:
Ok, I had to come back and check. The specific version I'm using (official from here) is vanilla (without gapps), but if this is something that bothers you there are 2 other developers building crdroid for this device and at least one of them is offering a gapps version. If I remember correctly I'm using nikgapps core, but I'm not quite sure. If you want to see more roms you can find them here.
If you're asking about the experience, I can tell you that I haven't encountered any issues with Google services / notifications or really anything else (and this isn't just this rom, most custom roms work well and are more than good enough for daily use).
crDroid 9.7 (Android 13) on Redmi Note 10 Pro, but you should be able to find a build for most devices. Other roms also have this feature. Feel free to ask if you need to know more.
No, sorry. Airplane mode should stop all data exchange with mobile radio, but you should still be able to enable wifi and bluetooth while airplane mode is on.
I'm pretty sure all communication with carrier is disabled when airplane mode is on, which should save more power than disabling only mobile data transfer (in this case calls and messages still get transfered and connection with carrier is active).