Please don't lump us all together.
Yep. Welcome to the hell that is corporate capitalism.
British English - lieutenant is pronounced "Lef-tennant"
In a word. Lobbyists.
The full saying is "Free as in Speech, not Free as in Beer"
Basically the "Free" in free means that it's free to do with as you please, modify, etc... But not free as in "here's a free product...like getting a free beer"
Ha ha. No no. I'm pretty good. No problems with the old downstairs plumbing. But it's not just for toilets. It's for bathtub sinks clogged with hair. Kitchen sinks, etc... It's just handy to have around the house. I even used it once to blow the dust out of my dryer vent.
I'm not really talking about development as simply programming. There are a lot of aspects that go into development, yes...programming is a big aspect.
But there's also bug reporting (every user should know how to report bugs because it's contributes to making the program better).
Heck, you can even download the documentation and give it a proof-read if you're good with grammar and spot some errors if you don't want to commit to helping to write it.
I know a lot of people who spend a lot of time in the various subs for the software, taking care to answer questions from other users who need help doing this or that. That again, is contributing.
Then there's simply what we're doing right now. Bringing attention to the projects online getting them more visibility.
Development of a successful FOSS app isn't just about programming. And even small contributions count. If you can donate some coin, great! If you can't, or don't want to, there are a thousand other things that you can do to contribute to that apps community.
I emphasized the word community because that is exactly what it is. The ethos of Open Source; what makes it different than Propietary software, is that the users are an inherent part of the development process in ways both big and small. In propietary software, there is a distinct line between the developers and the users. Developers have multiple stakeholders of which the user base is certainly one, but also include advertisers, software makers, hardware makers, etc...
FOSS software, in contrast, is much more a communitee effort with the involvement of the community in the way of bug reports, literature, education and even simply championing the project because they don't have millions of dollars in advertising budgets.
Sorry, I get a little passionate, so this is longer than I intended it to be.
But tl;dr, contributing isn't just about money or just about programming. There's a thousand ways big and small, and my issue isn't with people not "paying" necessarily. But people who use it for free and don't bother filing bug reports, don't join the community online to help answer user questions, etc...
A good FOSS citizen should be an active part of the community. Or donate money to the project if they'd rather not.
The issue as I see it is that knowledge in any subject is protean. It changes. So if you wait to long to go back, what you learned before would be completely useless and you'd effectively have to start from the beginning.
Heck, the things I was taught in my Archaeology Degree from 2001 are at best, incomplete, and in some cases, now completely refuted. If I had left and decided to go back even ten years later, the technology that was suddenly in use alone would force me to start all over again.
It's essentially a handheld air cannon. The kit comes with a handle and a suction that covers the toilet hole or whatever. You press down and yeah...it's basically a air-gun shot to the clog.
And yeah. It works great. Not always on the first blast. But I've never had it fail me.
This little bad boy here has changed my life.
Goddammit, there are three actors that I genuinely enjoy that are in this movie, and while I would like to think they just did it for a paycheque and aren't into MAGA bullshit, I'm not naive enough to believe it. Dennis Quaid, Penelope Ann Miller and Amanda Righetti why???????