Refuses to start if notifications are disabled (Android 14)

[xkcd386at]

Hi,

I have an Android 14 (Samsung F15, if it matters). I find that if I disable notification permission, Syncthing-fork won't run at all. I get the "Grant permission" for notification screen and it won't move from there until I allow it.

Thing is, I don't want/need the persistent notification ("Syncthing is running [...]").

I looked in all the issues here, and found mention of some Android requirement of showing that notification (otherwise it will kill the process).

But I have 3 other programs: KDE Connect, NetGuard, and ntfy.sh that run continuously without requiring a persistent notification, so I'm not sure that is true, at least in Android 14.

[Catfriend1]

No matter if you want it, the notification is required. Or you change the whole code to another worker model. (No offense meant)