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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by llamaimperative on Monday January 06, 2025 @06:55AM (#42609824)
Right but GP’s comment would apply if someone posted a complaint about “why is no one paying me a salary to build an ESP32 thermometer that tickles my feet when it gets below 80 outside?”
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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by tsupiroti on Monday January 06, 2025 @10:27AM (#42611333)
Well, there are often threads lamenting that open source maintainers don't get paid more.
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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by baq on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:21AM (#42642602)
And then cries of disgust and demands of professional services 24/7 for free because someone found a bug in your hobby project which turned out to be useful for some megacorp or VC funded startup.
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