So someone recently told me I should cut back on donations to open source projects.

Your being too nice, be more greedy??

Commonwealth bank

This is what I’m looking for! thanks. I also like the idea of not supporting big bank so I like the idea of this.

spending 5 minutes writing up a comment only to accedently press the cancel button ): Lemmy devs should put a confirmation for canceling when it’s above a certain character limit or something.

That seams pretty cool, thanks.

Is zorin-os that good? I don’t really like its model of bundling a whole lot of free software together and then charging money for it.

Although you can just get the free version.

Nah, In person for the win!

That’s a fair point. Although there is a reason there is an issue with people shooting each other in the US and there isn’t really anywhere else.

It doesn’t really help when you are up against an army of fascists who also have guns.

As a leftist I do not like guns. I guess that is the lie.

I’ll agree with that.

merging those contributions kinda becomes an actual need of users

When you say it becomes a need does this mean that not merging them would course the projects to fail? This means that if the option to merge the contribution didn’t exist in the first place (like non free software) the project would fail.

but I still think that letting companies just fuck off and do their own centralised thing separately from decentralised DIY-like development which, to my mind, is actual freedom, might help.

Actual freedom is taking away peoples rights to make things worse. If you want an example of what happens when actual freedom is available look at the free market.

Make the latest rick and morty season actually funny and good.

Life being worse ensures you never get any power.

Their heads.

My communist thoughts.

Mountain biking. It’s such a huge money hole that it could never possibly be a financial investment.

That makes sense, thanks for explaining (:

I don’t think your argument makes sense logically. Are you saying that copyleft software is enshitififying because big companies are pushing too many (optional) contributions? Are you aware that software maintainers don’t have to merge the contributions these people are pushing? With MIT like software contributers don’t even have the option to merge or not to merge because these companies just make a proprietary fork.

Criminal!