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
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.)
Not as much as I should be tbh.
Change that, it’s the only way there projects will survive.
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.
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.
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. 🥲
1$/month to every project I frequently use via Liberapay.
Every month about 10-20 euro, but nothing recurring. I setup a list of my open source tools and I try to one at a time donate to each one. But its a slow process and feels too less, but I don’t want to do recurring ones, though I know it would be the best for the projects.
None because I’m barely managing to avoid homelessness each month if I made more then I would do so though.
No problem we each do what we can in this hard world.
I donate 25€ per month to Droidian. It uses the Android kernel to run a Debian based Linux distro on phones.
Though I would rather see mainline Linux on phones succeed, I believe this could be the best alternative to iOS / Android (OS) until that happens.
When one of my “cloud” devices / services becomes “enshittified”, I’ll donate what the provide is asking to a related open source self-hosted project.
I also “buy” the major update for whatever software I use regularly.
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.
Somewhere between $10 and $50 per transaction. Its not every month, but just randomly throughout the year depending on what I have.
Nothing because I literally have no money
I don’t have “literally no money” but yeah I’m in the same boat. Used to donate but with the price of everything going up the last couple of years, it’s drained any and all discretionary spending…
Look on a price comparison site. Most of the bill increases are due to the loyalty tax.
huh?
Companies always give their best deals to new customers. You are likely paying way higher than market rate for your bills.
That’s not the issue, I promise.
