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

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

When was the last time you tried to run Linux? The last year has seen incredible progress on that front, thanks to Valve.

No one uses Wine for games anymore.

I switched about a year ago. Not because Linux got better, but because MS got worse.

I’m tired of Cortana. The fact that they try to force Edge onto my PC is absolutely infuriating. And I’m tired of these Windows updates constantly breaking my bug fixes. Never even tried W11 but I hear it’s much worse (unsurprisingly).

It’s actually because the Tensor chip is the most secure one available, and because Google promises several years of software updates, with a solid history to back it up.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

Yes, thank you for pointing that out

So, I have a few solutions for this.

First, I use GrapheneOS, so I can continue using Gboard and a few other Google products that do not warrant or require an internet connection, with network access disabled.

Alternatively, the next best keyboard is grammarly (also with network access dsiabled) and you can also use https://voiceinput.futo.org with that one.

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Stop using Google products, people. There are alternatives for every service they offer.

Unfortunately many of the products they offer are a requirement for daily life.

I hope they just ignore them and keep the services running. But I also know that’s not realistic.

Not sure how Signal is going to handle this because they literally built proxies into the app specifically to circumvent this type of legislation.

Apple and Google will put their apps but it’s trivial to just install it from the Signal website on Android. Or basically anywhere else.

Eh, yes and no. I personally loathe that type of media but certainly several hundred million people do not, so it would be nice if there was an alternative for them.

To be clear, Fedi is basically the opposite of private. Every post you make is archived on some 25k servers. Even your DMs.

Also it’s entirely dependent on your server admin and what kind of info they are collecting.

If you want private social media, Signal stories are pretty much all we got, to my knowledge.