Personally, a few reasons.

• I don't need to run 2 containers and >10GB. I could just install and run in 10 seconds.
• My whole library and metadata is self contained in a single dir. On a fresh OS install I could simply point Calibre to the dir, and off we go.
• A rich plugin ecosystem, including deDRM plugins.
• I can just ignore the AI stuff (for now, at least)
• I've used it for close to 2 decades. Familiarity is definitely a factor. And yes, it's still as ugly as it was 20 years ago. But once you've set your workflow up, the UI just kinda melds to the background.

It is one of the ugliest, most complex to configure, pieces of software I've ever used. It's also the best ebook management tool out there. I love Calibre.

I knew who it would be before opening the video. His whole thing is about making strange - and very often, unsafe - musical instruments. One of his early videos was replacing piano hammers with actual hammers.

His spinning guitar is actually super cool though!

I'm halfway across the world and it's the same. Nobody signals their exit. I've learnt to watch the movement of their wheels to read their intent.

As a non American, what even is that first picture? Is that a common "design" (or lack thereof) in American towns?

It's a server setting. Their instance doesn't auto-upvote, and can't downvote.

They've fixed Truecrypt vulnerabilities uncovered by previous audits, and have themselves been audited at least twice

Edit: some highlights on the latest audits and their response.

seeing as peanut butter is one of the principle three programmer foods ... the reference is immediately obvious.

Not to this programmer, it isn't. I have no idea what they're referencing.

Yeah I loved eternity, but the bugs keep piling up to the point of annoyance. Very happy with Thunder these days. And Voyager is great too. Both open source and very actively developed.

Yeah you're right, my mistake. I did in my haste read it completely the wrong way round, thinking they they were met with overwhelming self-defence on the Venezuelan side.

This is some BS.