You can actually use it without giving it contacts permission, but you'll have to add people via short links, like wa.me/(number)
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TwilightKiddy
Ducks are learning to gaslight people. Fascinating.
As far as I know, there is no way around making a backup. Titanium Backup may help with moving your apps, you'll probably have to deal with other files with your favourite file manager.
Laughs in WarCraft III: Reforged
As far as I know, Minecraft itself is avaliable for download publicly, you don't even need to patch it to play. You just need to supply it some fake account data and tell it to work offline.
No official servers support, of course, but that's about it.
The funny thing is, this mechanism came from Mojang, and at this point they can't even do anything about it. If they stop providing downloads without an account or implement some anti-piracy features, people will just use the latest official version and mod it. And it may be not even the latest one, there are tons of players on 1.7.10 and 1.12.2, just because modders love them.
Sure, they can try and push their Bedrock version... But nobody is playing on that piece of crap.
Why, though? I used both and I wouldn't say one is strictly inferior to the other.
That is solvable, though.
https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/
Doesn't take much time to get used to, and it does most things VS does.
Nobody asked about ditching Windows, though.
But if you are really interested, for me it's VR games.
I doubt yt-dlp supports Soundcloud metadata. One possible solution is just running your music through MusicBrainz Picard to restore the metadata.
Even with disabled autoupdates, the launcher itself still tries to update on my end. Fixed it the barbaric way, by clearing the contents of that pesky folder and doing
sudo chmod a-rwx Battle.net.14542