I second everyone donating a little would keep their favorite projects healthy. As a guy I follow says, the small donation is the one that didn’t come.

Also answering your question, I usually pay the minimum tier to not get stretched thin and go broke. 🥲

When one of my “cloud” devices / services becomes “enshittified”, I’ll donate what the provide is asking to a related open source self-hosted project.

I also “buy” the major update for whatever software I use regularly.

Not as much as I should be tbh.

Every month about 10-20 euro, but nothing recurring. I setup a list of my open source tools and I try to one at a time donate to each one. But its a slow process and feels too less, but I don’t want to do recurring ones, though I know it would be the best for the projects.

Somewhere between $10 and $50 per transaction. Its not every month, but just randomly throughout the year depending on what I have.

I donate 25€ per month to Droidian. It uses the Android kernel to run a Debian based Linux distro on phones.

Though I would rather see mainline Linux on phones succeed, I believe this could be the best alternative to iOS / Android (OS) until that happens.

Don’t have anything recurring. More like random $10-20 thrown here and there. It’d probably be more often if it was all more integrated/streamlined. Pretty much the hyped up Flathub payments feature someday. I’d do that more often than patreon/opencollective/etc. I’ve had a patreon sub for a few projects over the years

When ive used a project for a while and i have extra cash I usually do a 20$ donation. Ive been low on money last year so I only donated to a few of the projects, listenbrainz and Lemmy.

Ideally I want to donate a small amount yearly to all the projects I use.

I donate 5 to 10 aud every 6 months or so for connect for lemmy since i use it every day

The annual KDE reminder works on me. I also donate yearly to thunderbird and other random foss projects that are important to me like pihole. I pay for bitwarden to support them while keeping an instance of vaultwarden running as backup.

The other thing I try to do in lieu of donating is turning on metrics for applications I use daily when the option is there and whitelisting those domains in pihole.

Nothing because I literally have no money

I haven’t yet donated, because u want an easy and privacy minded way to donate. I’m not fan of crypto, because I still don’t understand how. How do you donate and still have privacy? Like I don’t want the bank or state to know what I support…

$10 a month and sporadic donations to projects I believe are making a difference

For the free programs I use, I have a total of around 100$ to give every year. The more programs or projects I want to support, the less there is for each. Otherwise, I’d just become poorer and poorer.

For paid pograms and services, I’m also trying to not go for the cheapest but the ethically better ones.

I also have a 2 patreons to support creators who speak about FOSS.

I think you don’t have to give much, but you should always try to give something every year.

One time donations of $5 only, I am poor