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Sure, I agree there's a line as a FOSS contributor and user myself, but this is well past that line. By the time you start telling the maintainers of a FOSS project which you don't donate to (let alone one which is donationless), which has no income of any sort, which you have never worked on, and which you have no intention of ever working on that they're "stingy" for not spending their own money on testing your specific use case and to "get off their ass", you're well into "PRs welcome :)" territory, and there's a reasonable argument that they're even past that into "lol bye *ban*" territory.