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Which FOSS projects have enough funding that we should donate elsewhere? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There were some posts over the holiday season asking for projects to donate to, and for those who have the means to comfortably do so, this is an important gift to consider.

If there's only a limited amount each of us is able to give, I assume there's no point giving it all to, for one example, The Linux Foundation, because a small personal donation is trivial next to the ~$15,000,000 USD they receive from sponsors dependent on them[1]. I understand that funding sources can be a major and profound source of bias[2] and ideally we would be, for example, helping to make Firefox independent of Google, but until we have more collective power, it's not worth letting smaller important projects struggle instead.

So, which important projects should we leave to the sponsors, and which really need our support?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Reading the first lines I was gonna say just cause their operating costs are covered doesn't mean they should refuse more donations, because they could use the money to hire people to fix their garbage software.

But they cleared that up further down where they suggest donating to Jellyfin clients instead, which are indeed the biggest problem at the moment.

Hopefully it will one day become a viable Plex alternative for people that are sharing their server with "normie" users, and not just users that are technologically inclined and willing to use external Android TV boxes instead of hoping their SmartTV has a Jellyfin client available for it that isn't hot garbage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Eh? TV boxes? Just use a web brower. What is a TV box?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Do you not have a TV? I've watched stuff on my monitor, sure, but sitting on the couch watching TV is what the vast majority of people do.

Unless you mean connecting your computer to your TV? I did this for awhile, there are ways to make it work, but I much prefer using a Chromecast or similar device to simplify the whole interaction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

to simplify the whole interaction

and watch video in full HD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Well I think of the people who have 4K stuff (I don't), there's probably a lot of gamers who have 4K monitors by not TVs? Just guessing, IDK 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm not even talking 4k, literally just 1080p—most streaming services won't stream above 720p in a web browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

Oh that's fair, yeah especially on Linux