The other day it rewrote a registry key that prevented these pop ups.

This is what drove me away. There are like 7 people that figured out how to make these pop-ups disappear and Microsoft invested money to “patch” that “error” to ensure they were forced to continue seeing these ads.

Why would they do that when people use this one all the same?

Plenty of other places to upload images. I think catbox.moe is a popular one.

Haha, should have known you can’t post that shit around here.

But I agree, I use Brave and it’s awesome! They even have a private LLM!

The poor UI and lack of polish has been a big problem in design communities for a long time

I dunno what to tell you except that it’s not a problem now.

For all the deserved shit that Windows gets, it “just works” without ever needing to touch config or a terminal.

Most people don’t need to use anything other than a browser, which works fine.

I can’t see Reddit anymore

A nice looking UI with good fonts, and a clean interface.

Pretty much anything beats Windows in that regard.

The ability to run random Windows applications with minimal fuss.

I mean if you REALLY can’t find a FOSS alternative, Bottles has been extremely successful and easy for me…

All without needing to use the terminal

This is the biggest hangup for me. Even if there is a GUI, most instructions will send you into the terminal nonetheless.

Better question is “why not”?

Yet another great reason to Pirate

Or maybe you don’t give a shit about what you’re “known as”?

Or maybe the intention is that no one sees you drinking out of it?

Maybe you just want to avoid paying the completely unjustified scam 1000% markup for drinks at venues?

It looks like the future promised in 1984, if that’s what you were referring to.

Exactly

If you have people living in your mirrors at home, you have much bigger problems than I can help you with, sorry.

Then just… don’t use those platforms? If you’re so afraid they’ll convert you.

If you open your subscriptions JSON, it will just open in the app and start loading your subs.

You don’t need to bypass anything. You can just not pay and the app will continue functioning just fine.

It’s the WinRAR model.

There are several "new YouTube"s. The problem is getting people to transition to them. And this is intended to do exactly that.

Rossmann has a millionaire backing up his repair business

Billionaire, actually.

So, is some of this being funded by that person and other investors of FUTO or is our money the only thing keeping this afloat?

The billionaire (Eron Wulf) is also the founder of FUTO. They don’t have investors.

STN has a huge privacy problem in that it has to be connected to a Google account.

That’s the exact opposite of what most people want from an app like this.