Windows has it's serious flaws, and I would never willingly go back to it at this point, but the installer is too hard? This sounds like a you-issue rather than a Windows one.
Re: your edit
Yes, the subscription option has a monthly/yearly/lifetime structure set at $2/$17/$100 respectively. Each of those unlocks all the Ultra features (which includes removing ads).
Which is separate from the one time payment of the $20 to only remove ads.
Easily the surface-linux kernel project, that level of dedication is incredible and without I wouldn't have my favorite laptop running linux right now.
And probably all of KDE's various developers if possible, since I both love the actual desktop environment and all the various tools they provide (like Elisa, Kdenlive, and KDE Connect).
I like the color theming that pulls from my current wallpaper, I think it's neat for the lockscreen clock and the settings tiles colors.
Don't use the Material You app icons, so I don't really have any opinions on that.
You have completely misread the app. The "Sync Ultra" is not the same as the one-time "Remove Ads" option.
If you want "Sync Ultra" for a lifetime, it's $100 or w/e it's listed as, that comes with all the extra features listed in the app. If you just want to remove ads and use the app without the Ultra features, you only have to pay $20 once.
Right, and that's totally fair. But one might expect a more tech savvy userbase to at least try and understand what's going on or being said by other users. Instead, there's just a lot of parroting going on, which is disappointing and also kinda needlessly harmful to the app's / dev's reputation among the users here.
If you used the DuckDuckGo browser, it can act as a fake "VPN" to intercept and block tracking requests from other apps on your phone. Multiple users have shown in the comments of a bunch of different threads that none of the tracking links are firing off when you load / use the app if you've already paid for either the one-time support or the subscription model.
The Android and iOS apps don't actually run games, they're essentially just the store and community tabs + SteamGuard. The hardware survey explicitly exists to tally up what kinds of hardware is actually being used to play games on Steam, so that's why it's not counted.
You'd think that, but so many of these users complaining don't understand how ad serving works. They're acting like this is some outrageous conspiracy to gather user data by the dev himself, or are being willfully ignorant about the proof that none of ad tracking SDK even loads when you use either the one time removal or the subscription.
I really thought that most of the early adopter crowd for a federated service like this would be at least mildly technical. But no, that's a stupid assumption in hind sight.
Because I want to support the developer? Sync has had a ton of work put into it over the last few years, it's a non trivial task for a developer to commit that much time to a free app. I also hate patreon, so $17 a year is a steal. It's also literally like a chipotle burrito every 12 months. I think I can fit that into the budget.
One time ad removal is $20, the ultra subscription is clearly a very different thing so.
Use a DNS adblocker and support his patreon then.
$20 once, for an app you're going to use daily for the foreseeable future mind you, is not the unreasonable take that people on here seem to think it is.
You get what you pay for, and Sync has proven it's track record with the Reddit app already. This isn't just some random app dev asking for money on his bejeweled clone.
Just finished a watch, incredible job pulling all of the great parts from the show together into a very convincing "movie".
There were a few (like literally one or two) rough / noticeable jump-like cuts which I imagine were just unavoidable with the source material and what you needed to do with those scenes.
Overall this is a fantastic edit, you should be very proud of this and I have already recommended it to a lot of my friends and will continue to do so (probably in lieu of ever suggesting the show itself lol).
It's already live apparently, just update to the latest version and it's "remove ads" under the account switcher section.
Yeah, it's an impressive amount of work and more options is always a good thing, but there's really no reason to go out of your way to buy a new MBP just to run Linux. Though I wonder what the used M1 market is looking like these days.
According to the dev on Mastoson, it was DarkReader messing with their color math detection on a HN link's :visited tag.
Got the same thing. Whatever they're using to detect the source of incoming clicks, it isn't working. Valid rant against HN or not, IMO that just means they're morons who I wouldn't trust to support a distro.
Edit: It's also happening from their own post on Mastodon lmao. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Igigog/110820668174707603
The developer has confirmed on Discord that the one-time lifetime payment is planned for the full release.
Back when I was young and stupid, my ISP had a 3 strike program before they just terminated your entire contact.
I've had pretty much the opposite experience most of the time. Constantly dealing with flatpaks not opening or other weird issues that would go away as soon as I tried the AUR version or just installed it manually from the repo.