You can sponsor a #FSF associate membership for an entire year for $140 US: u.fsf.org/47g #FSFTable

@fsf things you can buy with $140 instead of an FSF associate membership:
- a television
- two copies of donkey kong bananza
- an atari 2600+
- a very large donation to your favorite FOSS linux distro, desktop environment, or another project
- approximately 23 big macs
- 560 quarters
- a pretty good shovel
- a kinda shitty phone
- approximately 1/5th of a PS5 pro
- a rescue puppy
- approximately 230 chicken mcnuggets
- approximately 14 cans of bug spray
- at least 16GB of RAM

@mjdxp @fsf
- used PS4 or PS Vita
- FSF-approved X200 (without Libreboot, that triples the price lol)
- potentially a two-way train ticket to your friend
- a microwave
- 50 gallons? of regular fuel (idk what's the unit in US)
- a nice retro PC for Windows XP gaming
- a bunch of cute clothes
and last but not least
- 144 times 320 matches = 46,080 matches in Walmart

@mjdxp @fsf 16GB RAM at current RAM prices?

… or, you can sponsor a me for any amount! pinky promise to use it better than the FSF https://ko-fi.com/sdomi

(not a begpost! more of a joke)

@domi fun fact: this post got filtered from my TL for the mere mention of the word “begpost”. this is what bad tagging does to a mfer, yall. tag your begposts (not directed at anyone specific, dw)

@Lili @fsf from what i've seen online, apparently

@mjdxp @fsf

• a quite good used phone
• 100-150 kg of apples
• a used Apple iPod
• a used Apple iPhone (purposefully not included in "good used phone")
• the previous two were just for the "apple" joke
• a fish tank
• 11065 1-ruble coins

@fsf Maybe if I donate I'll have a chance to get my (residential) IP delisted from whatever list makes this appear for me on savannah.nongnu.org?

@gorplop @fsf hah, i get the same page now. comedy

@domi @fsf i would be fine with this if they used the (controversial) anubis proof of work proxy, but this is quite counterproductive

@mjdxp @fsf I've been an FSF member for like ten years, but other than receiving regular donation drive emails and reminders to join the annual LibrePlanet convention, I haven't seen or heard a single thing where the FSF did anything at all except self-congratulating.

We live in times of massive digital crises (AI, new spying endeavours, digital warfare, social media manipulation, ...) and the FSF should be at the forefront of these fights similarly to the CCC or the EFF.

But no, they seem to be perpetually stuck in 2005. They have absolutely nothing to say about anything recent at all. Politics is a swear word to them. Nearly all GNU projects are barren and abandoned. Most FSF-related projects chug along in maintenance mode on a handful of volunteer developers.

I'm disappointed. But I really love that my membership card is a USB stick.

@gorplop @domi @fsf even TCRF hasn't blocked me and the owner is hellbent on blocking every VPN on planet earth (and I'm not even using a VPN) and I just got blocked by their website 😹

Meanwhile I can still access Github/Gitlab/similar just fine. The best part is how they ask for donations at the bottom of the page.

@gorplop @fsf god I hate residential proxies/VPNs and how much they've shit the internet up. Apparently my current IP gets flagged all the time on websites.

@sendpaws @domi @fsf Yeah, that part is infuriating

@fsf love how i'm just a silly autistic trans girl on the internet and yet my post has received 12 more boosts and 28 more favorites than this "big important foundation" on a sub post

@mjdxp @fsf Seven $20 Steam gift cards

clippy pfp btw

@june kill them

@june oh i didn't even see this was a quote post, i blocked this person lol

@EeveeEuphoria lmaoo real

@mjdxp @fsf I just bought a used copy of donkey komg bananza for about 50 dollars so you could even get three copies!!

@gorplop @fsf
it seems that you can't access it with http using an older version of firefox (it's fine with the esr).
even weirder, you get the same page (still in http) with the latest versions of qutebrowser and chromium.
however, it does work with dillo, lynx and even curl in both http and https.
there's no difference using an ipv4 (even in a cg-nat) over an ipv6 on my end.

@mjdxp @fsf
- Used thinkpad
- New Ender 3 (on sale)
- Used 3D printer that's probably better
- 7 kg of good filament
- 14 kg of mediocre filament (on sale)
- ~20 movies from my local used book store
- 120 cans of Dr Pepper
- A fancy labelmaker
- 28 months of 6-user tailscale personal plus
- Shipping for 2 McMaster-Carr orders
- 5000 Nails
- ~20 music albums

@doomquakekeen @fsf oh wow. it works for me over https. Thanks! How come I didnt think about it

@Lili @mjdxp @fsf You can (aaaalmost) get a 3D printer for that amount of money

(Why they’re still so expensive, I need one for prototyping the project I’m currently working on)

@gorplop @domi @fsf they called Anubis spyware, so yeah xD

@elly @Lili @fsf @mjdxp I've seen used 3D printers for less than that, whether they're actually any good I have no idea

@mjdxp @fsf a trip to see my partner!

@sammy @mjdxp Bananza if it was good (it's the exact same game but not a Switch 2 exclusive)

@hazelnot @mjdxp i don't think the game would run well on a switch tbh

@sammy @mjdxp hm that sucks

Even if I could afford to buy a Switch 2 I wouldn't cause Nintendo is a horrible company though so I eh guess I'll wait until I can either get a cheap hacked Switch 2 if and when that will ever exist or until emulators for it exist and are usable 😅