Post Ar5vTBBwkU5AWSWqIK by jani@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #Ar5Riv2TZhIqQygibg by axboe@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-13T19:06:56Z
       
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       marcan on leaving the Asahi project: "No matter how much we did, how many impossible feats we pulled off, people always wanted more. And more."Yep this is basically ANY open source project. Doesn't matter what you give people, they will always complain about something.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar5vT9g0NkwDp6Zorw by jani@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-13T19:33:02Z
       
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       @axboe I do wonder if this is amplified when you're soliciting direct sponsorship for the project. It's easier for the users to feel entitled when they've paid money?
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar5vTAcqqy0elc6oam by axboe@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-13T19:36:31Z
       
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       @jani I don't have any experience with donations/patreon/etc, so can't say if that makes it worse or not. But I do know that it's already bad enough when you just give stuff away for free and have never solicited users for any donations. It's just a thankless never ending job with little to no community rewards. That can very quickly suck the fun out of it and remove that initial motivation you had for working on it, which is that it was fun.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar5vTBBwkU5AWSWqIK by jani@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-13T19:44:53Z
       
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       @axboe It's just weird. You start a fun project as a hobby for yourself, then you're kind of excited for a while you have a user base > 1, and then all of a sudden you need to start another fun project to enjoy hacking again, and...
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar5vTCGakhONr9i4Aq by axboe@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-13T19:47:17Z
       
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       @jani It's akin to the "don't make your hobby your job" advice. If you end up not having tons of fun, now you need both a new hobby AND job 🙂
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar5vUHhW27jt03p0wS by Sturmflut@mastodon.social
       2025-02-13T22:55:25Z
       
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       @axboe It's not just the same as with any other open source project. People actively bought locked-down, undocumented, non-free hardware instead of more FOSS-friendly ARM-based options, decided to not run the operating system they had already paid the manufacturer for (which can actually run a lot of FOSS software), and then on top expected someone else to pay for their own decision.These people are about three times worse than the usual.