7,464 / 10,000
➡️ Donate through Ko-Fi ➡️ Donate through SEPA transfer* ➡️ Buy merch from our store ➡️ Why a fundraiser?
€5000 incentive: Make me use Windows 11 for a month (follow along!)
> €10000: Video tour of my office and my computers/devices collection <
€15000: Buy a Mac and use macOS for a month (and review it)
€20000: I get an OSNews tattoo
*Name: Thom Holwerda – IBAN: SE08 8000 0820 1684 4657 8414 – BIC: SWEDSESS
Just a note: the UK is still in SEPA. Just don’t tell anyone in the government or they might pull us out of it!
Donation will be made. Keep up the great work!
AlistairH from Scotland
Very happy to see iban transfers in the options! I remain baffled that many of the so-called high-tech donation sites continue to ignore this simple method.
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if you mean stuff like patreon: there’s more regulation on sepa regarding transfer fees, with the now mandatory sepa instant they also can’t delay payment by several days, those with great math & finance skills can likely give a macro insight on where to gaim the system.
as for people receiving the donation it depends if you can defend that it’s a donation instead of a payment. patreon as example again: they slap on taxes only at the moment you actually sign up – quite misleading imo.
i do the https://www.patreon.com/c/dragonflydigest/membership €5 tier, pay €6.05.
i tried the contact document on here a few months ago asking if sepa transfers were an option to donate, (didn’t get a reply) likely missed the reply. when thom wakes up, checks the account & goes online he can raise that 3910 to 3935 manually 🙂
@thom: i did get a warning that the name could not be verified with the bank account. .be added name account number tests on transfers. so this might be the very first time i got phished 😀
Yeah, I got the same name verification unavailability warning. Also SEPA instant transfer did not work. But in my experience, both these “new” SEPA features are generally still very flaky when used between different banks…
I’ll look at your ads, and I like some of your content, but I am not paying for your rabidly anti-AI ravings.
I think “rabid” is correct. Next to Thom everyone is a “tech bro”.
Why no start your own pro-AI publication, then I can choose not to donate to that.
Who said anything about “pro AI”?
The guy above you perhaps?
I mean, the complaint was about “rabidly anti-AI ravings,” which is appropriate. The world is not a binary. Not being irrationally against AI is not the same as being pro-AI. There is plenty of room for fair criticism.
For example, putting “AI” in quotes annoys me to no end, not because I like AI, but because the quotes imply that current systems are not artificial intelligence. OK, but then you have to define what artificial intelligence is, which Thom absolutely refuses to do.
I don’t want to? And I don’t care that you don’t want to donate to a hypothetical publication I’d never found.
Thom is aggressively and illogically anti-AI. It’s not journalistic, it’s not informative, and it’s nothing I want to support with my money – and I told him that. It’s feedback, from a person who might otherwise support a place he mostly likes. Thom can take it or leave it, I am sure he’ll leave it.
You can see it as feedback on feedback then 🙂
Alright, at the very least looking forward to the Windows 11 experience
I feel ashamed to contribute to making someone use Windows….