When I lived there Americans would act like I was suffering because I chose to ride my bike home. They would push to give me a ride really hard.
If I tried to take a bus, they would rather drive me around than let me take the bus.
They were very kind, but god they are confused
Exactly the problem, except I end up in greedy companies often. Donations are harder to arrange than business contracts.
Yeah those make my life easy because I can just set up billing for them.
I wish there was a cloud provider that literally just up charged 5-10% that went straight to donations.
Tax wise, I need to be invoiced for services. Could just be “software consultions” or something vague. My ability to contribute goes up a lot once it’s a business contract.
Yeah. I just wish there was a “support plan” because companies are weird about donations. I do things like push for RHEL instances so fees get sent up to RedHat. I fully agree with the donation approach, but some cloud budgets hit 10-100k and I want that money going to good things 😅
This was in San Diego. My childhood home was like your experience. Not sure where you were, but some places have a pretty stuck up culture. There are places that aren’t so toxic