I’ve got some standing orders of 1 or 2 euros every month for bigger projects like grapheneos and kde. And for small apps that I actively use, I try to donate 5 or 10 euros now and then. It’s not much but I believe if everyone is doing their part we succeed in the long run
1$/month to every project I frequently use via Liberapay.
I donate 100€ to KDE every year. I consider it my “windows license”, since it was the DE that allowed me to escape from windows 7 years ago.
I started to donate once a year to my Linux os and apps I like. I also need to set up a small monthly for apps I like. If we don’t show support when we can we will lose the some great projects.
I donate to Signal. I intend to increase my contributions to other open source (Linux) projects this year though. I expect them to need it more than ever soon.
I donate 0. I hope I’ll be able to do more once I get the new job. (I have a monthly donation budget, but it’s spent on other causes at the moment.)
None, I’m unemployed and don’t have the money to spare :3
When I still had my last job I would donate really any time I thought about it, around 5-10$ a time. Still not really enough, but it was part time minimum wage.
Some years I donate nothing. Other years it’s about 50 euro… Depend on a lot of things. I believe in giving to the free software, because that makes it better, and since I’m a user, that’s great - and I like to keep it running.
I like the little badge I get for being a donar on Signal. Other than that, my default is $5/mo or whatever the site’s recommended amount is.
I donate $50 a year to KDE and GrapheneOS each.
Gonna donate $50 a year to Libreoffice and maybe CachyOS starting June.
Gonna donate the same to the Servo browser if it becomes even remotely usable.
Used to donate to Mint but stopped because I don’t use Mint anymore.
Servo is actually quite usable, right now.
I tried it. If I remember correctly it had no bookmarks, no dark mode, no adblock. Those three features are essential for me in a browser. Especially bookmarks, I have 6500 bookmarks.
6500 bookmarks? Do you use then like I do? Add a bookmark. Never look in bookmarks.
Assuming you do use them, how often do you visit 6500 websites? Seems like searching in general would be easier than searching through your bookmarks.
Do you run a script now and then to see if the site still exists?
Finally I cant tell you how curious I am what you bookmark for 6500 websites. Consider exporting them?
I have my bookmarks in folders and subfolders, so I can find them when I need to.
In terms of what my bookmarks are:
- 2300 Video game bookmarks
- 800 Manga bookmarks
- 600 Music bookmarks
- 750 YouTube videos to watch
- 250 YouTube videos saved because they were good
- 150 News articles and blog posts to read
- 120 Books, movies, and TV series
- 100 Various privacy services I need to switch to
- 600 Old bookmarks that I moved into a folder instead of deleting
The core theme here is that I refuse to use built-in tracking mechanisms. I don’t want vendor lock-in so I use bookmarks instead to manage them (which Qobuz makes very difficult).
I do it differently; I essentially have a software list there, too, and all are categorized.
Gotta say that is organized.
Curious about bookmarking video games. Like games online? Guides? How would that work? You can self host collections, so why the book mark?
Same with Manga, why not self host your own library?
Seems like you are making a lot of work for a browser when the tools to do it much easier are already there.
With games, they’re are various categories like:
- Demos I want to play
- Demos I’ve played and my opinion on them
- Demos that I might want to play, but I haven’t decided yet.
- Games that aren’t worth putting on my Wishlist, but that I’m not prepared to discard entirely.
- Games from my wishlist that I’m unsure if I actually want to play and that I need to sort.
- Games that I haven’t wishlisted but might want to.
- Everything to do with itch.io because their launcher and storefront is garbage.
In terms of manga, I use a database site but there are limitations.
- There are some I’ve read one chapter of and saved for later, some I’ve read nothing of but want to read, and some I’m reading but put on pause because of the release schedule.
- When it’s time to start a new manga, I normally pick out more than one. When that happens I bookmark the list and go back to it after I finished the previous one.
- There are manga from before I started using a manga database and haven’t sorted.
- There are manga that I’ve marked as “want to read” but for various reasons am reconsidering.
- There are oneshots I’ve read on Reddit and saved.
As for why I don’t self-host, I don’t really want to buy more disk space in this economy. Also (and more importantly) a collection of pirated manga is far harder to backup than just a database. In terms of preservation, I have so much new stuff to read that I’m not too fussed if something goes away.
Everything to do with itch.io because their launcher and storefront is garbage.
Isn’t this the truth.
Thanks for kindly responding, I find it interesting.
hoping to figure that out this year, once I do an overhaul of what I’m using and figuring out
just know that half of my budget for this will come from what I was previously spending on mega corp subscriptions (not much, but more than I am now). the other half will be based on its value to me
Infrequently. Sometimes like 5 euros. Could do more but I am not fully reliant on open source. I wish ublock origin accepted donations though.
What I will say is that if you donate small amounts, saving up is better if possible. I know some charities I donate to mentioned transaction charges could be 1 or 2 euros per transaction. So donating a low amount could really eat into your donation.
In Germay / Europe we have a good banking system where oftentimes you don’t pay for the transaction. You just need an IBAN.
Giving money to stripe or paypal seems to be nuts, imo.
I am European but it really depends in what service they use for the automation.
10€ monthly for Godot
None.
Reason being simply financial responsibility - if something is free, then giving out money for it seems wasteful, like throwing money out of the window. You can argue it’s not much, I got value from, it supports the developer, it’s the moral thing to do, and you would probably be right. But this is simply not the priority perspective from which I am looking at it.
You’re not throwing money out the window though, you’re giving it directly to someone. Someone who has used their craft to create something that has value to you. I’m not necessarily criticising you for not donating, I just want to shift your perspective that your money wouldn’t be valued by other people.
I know, but if it was that easy to shift perspectives, the world would be a completely different place. I dislike the donation format since it plays a lot on the moral and psychology of the person - how much is enough, how much value does it actually provide me etc. Like I am the one doing the sales for the person. I much rather have a clear price.
Maybe it’s just because of donations and the “uncertainty” it makes me feel. I did pay for open source software before (open source != free), guess I prefer just to see a clear price tag.
That’s a fair take. I can relate to the feeling of uncertainty. When I make small donations of a couple of euros I have to push away my feelings that the donation could be seen as insultingly low. It’s hard to judge what a “fair” price is. But after all, many donation buttons say “Buy me a coffee” so I would hope the amount is appreciated either way.
Found the economist
Not sure what is that supposed to mean? I can only assume it is supposed to be some kind of insult, and can only invite me in the future never to even reconsider donating, seeing how “not doing what I expect you to do” creates toxic comments and bashing.
Care to elaborate?
Not as much as I should be tbh.
Change that, it’s the only way there projects will survive.
I second everyone donating a little would keep their favorite projects healthy. As a guy I follow says, the small donation is the one that didn’t come.
Also answering your question, I usually pay the minimum tier to not get stretched thin and go broke. 🥲
