alt Hacker NewsExactly. The cultists are the loudest and at the same time wonder why Linux UI/UX and its apps is still subpar and why MacOS, where asking money for stuff is normal, has quite decent tooling that make your life much easier.
At the end of the day the small amounts are the real thank you and biggest driver for the work you put into something.
> At the end of the day the small amounts are the real thank you and biggest driver for the work you put into something.
I wouldn't say it's the biggest driver but it did have an unexpectedly big effect.
Once upon a time, I decided to set up sponsorship on my GitHub repositories just because I had nothing to lose by doing so. Went about doing my thing, then someone posted it here and suddenly I had a sponsor.
It's not even close to paying my bills, and looking up the top projects in sponsorship revenue quickly disabused me of any notions of sponsored full time work. It still felt really nice that someone out there cared enough about my work to send me money.