There are aliens on Grindr?

How many meters is that?

Nice trolling, dude.

This is why people don't have kids anymore.

Yaaaaay!

Said no one.

GTFO. They are saying that regular donations are so much better that they prefer them even if they will receive less money. Isn't that obvious? If you have $4k in the bank account today you can in theory hire a permanent dev but you don't know if you will be able to pay him next month. If you have $3k per month in regular donations you know that you will be able to pay someone as long as people don't cancel those. Which will take some time. Which gives you the stability needed to hire people.

Phrasing this as "gnome has too much money" is malicious.

What if he just want some of the sweet, sweet VC money but realizes this will never actually happen?

Business idea: renting personalized, up to date, AI curated social media accounts with puppies and American flags only.

Because everyone else is on WhatsApp. I moved most of my friends to Signal but I'm in some clubs that use WhatsApp groups to communicate. Yes, I could leave but then I wouldn't know about many activities.

Thanks for that. I had a discussion about it in another thread but without concrete numbers.

you are mostly paying for a boutique manufacturing process

You're also in a way supporting an NGO lobbying for repairability and sustainability. We've seen progress on this front in EU and it's possible Fairphone made some impact by showing what is technically achievable. It's hard for Google to say that replaceable battery simply can't be done when you have another company doing it.

Personally I find $300-$400 donation to be too much. If they would establish donations plan I would probably support them. I do donate to Signal from time to time and other OS projects regularly. But I'm happy that enough people are willing to donate to keep them going.

A lot of people do it for dental care and plastic surgeries already. It's exactly the same with everything else. People here don't seem to realize you have private healthcare in Europe where you can just pay for the visit. The problem is that you also have to pay for the stay. I will give you two examples. Wisdom tooth extraction costs around 300 euros in Spain vs $500 in US. Doesn't make sense to fly to Spain to do it. Tooth implant costs around 1000 euros in Spain vs $3500 in US. Now paying for a single flight would make sense but tooth implant requires multiple visits spanning around 3 months. If you have to fly twice or stay in Spain for 3 months it doesn't make sense.

But if you're already going to Europe and want to fix your tooth while you're here you can totally do it. A lot of people that live in US but have family in Europe do it.

Pfff, that's nothing. My club doesn't even have a website.