Technically, nothing. I do not get much of disposable income and I did donate to 2 projects that are my favorites. Others are on the way, but not sure when I will be able to in near future. I really want to support them.
What would stop me from donating is frequency of how I use that particular project. Say, I run uptime kuma. In reality I barely use it and no one except me even knows that I run one. I might as well just disable it and nothing would change in my setup. There is not a single service integral to my setup that I need to inform my users (there are like 2.5) to check uptime of.
As another example, Tailscale will skip my donation. A useful thing, yes. They have paid memberships and their free tier is barebones WG setup that is just easy to do. They are getting paid by commerial users. They dont need my 50 euros as much as say Jellyfin does.
The other point to skip donating would be vibe coding. I doubt vibe coding project will be updated enough, will be secure, and generally a solid projects. Everything I've seen so far is either abandoned fast, has some major vulnerabilities, or does something that other projects have already figured out. I skip even trying these.
Other than that, if I'd have a disposable income that I can spend on anything, I'd donate to all (F)OSS that I use. The community rocks and we should support good software anyway.
Problem is that if they ask questions, get resolutions and then nuke the post - resolution gets nuked too. That is how communities die. Firstly, no one will seek answers here because it is not here anymore. Secondly, users will spawn lots of posts with the same question since the answer got nuked, which will annoy prevalent users.
Wouldn't it be more better if a question with an answer stays on the forum for everyone to see? Hasn't it happened to you to find a post with an issue discussed that is similar to yours except there is no answer anymore since it got nuked and all it has is a post title?
I don't get it why would selfhosting-related hardware questions be irrelevant? If we are talking about 14tb drives having weird behaviour, I'd say this is the right place to ask.
Right now I live in an extremely multi-cultural city, and generally wildly multi-cultural country. The best Japanese restaurant I've been to was a Ramen restaurant stationed in another city that is ran by an actual Japanese chef that (presumably) does not speak any other languages.
In the town I am stationed right now all Japanese restaurants I've been to were okay. But nothing even close to that Ramen place. Day and night. Fact is, many Japanese, Thai and Korean Restaurants are ran by Chinese business people and mostly staff. Not all, but I've been to few.
To add, Kepab is common back in my homeland, but 99% of the time it was never made by Turkish cook cause we don't get many foreigners back there. Kepab in the city I live right now is almost always made by Turkish or middle-east-descent person. AND IT IS DELICIOUS! I've tried many different joints at different prices and none of them was even remotely as bad as the ones I've used to eat back at home.
I've learned to prefer cultural food cooked by the person relating to that culture. Chinese, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Slavic (Polish, Ukraine, Czech, etc.) is always tastes better if it was made by someone who is from that country. It just how it is.
Steam wallet can be used by this. You can top your steam wallet by 5-10-20 and so on. Wonder how this would be tracked by payment processors if it even can.
The whole case is about Valve forcing other storefronts to sell at the same price as these publishers sell in Steam. Key point is that allegedly Valve requires this even if the game is sold not with a Steam key, but publishers own. Allegedly. Time will tell if they actually do it or not.
So far Ubisoft and WB hasnt had a great reputation in gaming community, so there should be no surprises why most gamers side with Valve.
This is what they allegedly do coming out of this article. Until court resolves the problem, it is only a speculation. Ubisoft and WB have bad reputation in gaming and gamedev circles compared to Valve, so I would take their word with a grain of salt.
Add to that the fact that some gun parts are not printable and have to be made out of metal. Printing an entire firearm on a $500 3D printer is possible but that gun will be good enough for 1 bullet, and probably will hurt shooter at that.
Also, if inmates can make a handgun out of whatever they have access at prison - 3d printing is the afterthought. Some parts can be bought in a department store, the others can be ordered online as a replacement parts. If someone really wants to make a gun themselves, 3D printing ban wont stop them.
I know that in modern times most toy guns look nothing like a real weapon (colorful, looking weird, and so on), but you can still find some guns like this one:
I think a simple rule of "Better safe than sorry" applies here. It is as if a robber comes with a plastic gun that looks like a real one. Nobody wants to figure out if it is real or not.
I been discovering lately that many people in my circles are using Signal. I fucking hate whatsapp and would love to switch to Signal. But this dumb fuck app is too common around here. That is such a relief that these people do have it. Baby steps.
Technically, nothing. I do not get much of disposable income and I did donate to 2 projects that are my favorites. Others are on the way, but not sure when I will be able to in near future. I really want to support them.
What would stop me from donating is frequency of how I use that particular project. Say, I run uptime kuma. In reality I barely use it and no one except me even knows that I run one. I might as well just disable it and nothing would change in my setup. There is not a single service integral to my setup that I need to inform my users (there are like 2.5) to check uptime of.
As another example, Tailscale will skip my donation. A useful thing, yes. They have paid memberships and their free tier is barebones WG setup that is just easy to do. They are getting paid by commerial users. They dont need my 50 euros as much as say Jellyfin does.
The other point to skip donating would be vibe coding. I doubt vibe coding project will be updated enough, will be secure, and generally a solid projects. Everything I've seen so far is either abandoned fast, has some major vulnerabilities, or does something that other projects have already figured out. I skip even trying these.
Other than that, if I'd have a disposable income that I can spend on anything, I'd donate to all (F)OSS that I use. The community rocks and we should support good software anyway.