I'm a FOSS coder. So I make no money even though I spend 8 hours a day coding. It's a travesty if you ask me.

Are there any societies that give grants to people like me? There are places where I can get money for equipment like new servers and shit, but that's not what I need. I literally need someone to just give me 12k a year so I can pay rent and eat and keep producing stuff that benefit the world.

Elon gets like 100 billion a year from the gubmint just by claiming he will take us to Mars

>>82110328 (OP)
Make a piece of software that's important enough that people want to donate to you.
An example off the top of my head is vaxry, the developer of hyprland and its ecosystem.

>>82110328 (OP)
have you tried scamming cryptobros and grandmas with chatgpt generated emails and social media comments from chinese farms

>>82110328 (OP)
if you're not licensing your stuff as GPLv3 you deserve the misery tbdh smdh f'am

There are enough GOOD coders getting paid even tho they don du nun. SO answer is work oficialy.

>>82110420
>Make a piece of software that's important enough that people want to donate to you.

99% of Internet users only care about what's entertaining
They wouldnt recognize importance if it slapped them in the face
Even Mastodon just died out