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Thanks. Unfortunately GrapheneOS is only for Pixel phones, but maybe someday.

Yes I think there's also an fdroid app that does that. But except for a few unusual cases I generally don't want to run Play store apps anyway. Target is the first one so far. I've gotten by without banking apps and expect to keep doing so.

I use TB under Debian and there is a tray icon and an arrival notification, poll time of maybe a few minutes, seems fine. Showing the # of messages in the tray icon could be sort of handy I guess, though I had never thought about it before and didn't miss it. Basic features = shut off the "email contains remote content" banner or "spam filter thinks this email is spam" (I can recognize spam for myself). I just want a preference that permanently disables remote content without throwing banners at me. And eliminate the client side spam filtering completely since I have that on the server side, and can manually flag any that gets through. Plus various other stuff like that. Yes, get rid of the calendar and contacts stuff. Biggest feature needing significant code changes: make message search not suck.

This doesn't really seem like something that needed to be done. Thunderbird already has too many features. It needs less, not more. A bunch of stuff in the email client part is also badly designed. That needs fixing, preferably upstream, but I wouldn't think of that as feature enhancement.

This has a long way to go but it looks really good.

It would help if you said more specifically what you were looking for tutorials about, and also what your pre-existing knowledge level is about those topics. https://www.youtube.com/@richarde.borcherds7998 (Fields medalist Richard Borcherds) has lots of great math videos, but they are generally at mid-undergraduate level or higher, sometimes graduate level, so not for everyone. 3blue1brown is also good, and more elementary.

Otherwise, if I want to find out about a specific topic, I search for that topic as needed. Like I needed to fix a washing machine so I found a video about that particular repair. It's not something I would have watched for random entertainment or education.

What do you mean by highlight via email? Target is reasonably close to here. There is not really anyplace closer for kitchen stuff etc. There are a few grocery stores that are closer and I do use those. Anyway this is getting way off topic. I mostly just wanted to know what was going on inside Android resulting in the app's observed behaviour. My shopping practices are the best I can do given my requirements, as far as I can tell.

There's an MD whose stuff I read sometimes, who says he is seeing a way unexpected number of heart problems in younger people since the pandemic started, because of heart damage done by the virus.

The web site lets you order stuff for home delivery or for in-store pickup (you go into the store and wait a long time at the customer service desk). Gettnig stuff brought to the parking lot requires the app. It's annoying and I don't know why they do that. The app also needs network connectivity when you're in the parking lot, to let them know which parking space you are in. I don't have a working sim in the burner phone, so I bring another phone to use as a wifi hotspot, what fun.

Other stores do let you order on the web for parking lot pickup, and then call a phone number once you get there, so Target just insists on being special.

I realize you're being facitious but as a matter of fact, the Target app (plus Google Play) are the only apps I have installed so far that didn't come from F-droid. Google Play was needed to install the Target app. I figure that the F-droid apps have had enough vetting that I tend to not worry about them too much. I have never installed or used Google Play on my "real" phone. I only installed it on the burner in order to install the target app there.

I confess to occasionally using some of the preinstalled google apps on my main phone, such as the camera app. I will get around to checkng out F-droid versions one of these days.

I prefer to avoid going in the Target store because of the long waits and for healh reasons. Parking lot pickup is preferable. Also, I sometimes have to take my mom with me when shopping. She is elderly, has serious mobility problems, and is probably more susceptible than most people to airborne pathogens from the holiday shoppers in Target. So it's way easier and safer for us to sit in the car and let Target staff bring the stuff to us, instead of going into the store. Plenty of other people order everything from Amazon for similar sorts of reasons, and at least this avoids a lot of packaging and shipping.

It's not like I went to great lengths to get the burner phone to run the Target app. I had the phone anyway, and the Target app seemed like a good use for it.

Installing the Target app from Google Play requires a Google Play account, and I didn't want that on my main phone either. Plus using the Target app requires a target.com account, besides having the app itself installed. So the burner phone actually separates off three annoying things: 1) Google Play account, 2) target.com account, 3) Target app.

Thanks for the info about Firebase Cloud messaging. What I'm wondering now is, does the target app have to keep running to receive those messages? That means it's potentially continuously collecting the phone's location. That's part of the reason I keep the phone powered off. Location permission is emabled because that makes parking lot pickup a little faster. Basically they juggle their order queue to prioritize users who are getting close to the store. So I turn on the phone and start the app when I'm a few miles away from the store.

I guess I could keep location permission disabled except when needed, but that's more nuisance, and anyway there's still data collection possible from other sensors and the availability of the network.