Got some work still for the future but I don't think that will be in time.. 😟 I'm still €257 short for past months server bill and rent and energy are crawling up my neck 
Next month our Matrix server will be gone and I'm gonna cut some more non-essential services, sorry I don't know what else to do right now. As much as I hate it im gonna put up my cam for sale, the roof is more important 😿 Goddamn i hate the current state of the world so much. 
(don't worry, mstdn is prio number one 💪)
@stux
I like the reality of this... and feels like it's a constant thing cropping up more often which why I want to respect the re-occurrence with a long post proportional to the extortion of rent and things like this which kills projects and people dead (albeit slowly or indirectly).
Billions of people are over-paying in my opinion in order to have these services run or 'roof' over their head and even heavy donations at some point won't cut it (but I do suggest you pay stux and talk about funding more often).
To be mindful as things get more expensive is what this post is about.
Longer text is for me caring more, so please consider that before letting 'wall of text' syndrome hit you and forever ask why less and less things work.
CUP OF TEA MAYBE IF IT HELPS:
SO there is an obvious attempt by others to coerce us in acceptance of using monetary things which further increases ultimatums with the same old threats of food cut-off / being homeless etc (just one year savings can be wiped out and even selling your grandma won't help). Many are losing saving right now and not like caring jobs are being made by the plentiful.
So perhaps to accept this equation and get better at avoid this is about finding more richer people to hold the umbrella.
I was once richer and didn't donate as much as I should have BUT also blame people for not responding or engaging with 'little' or 'stupid' non-coders / non-engineers (which I consider myself somewhat) but for a while I have chosen to be poor as anyway it would have got to this stage and needing to start solving this problem using my life the long run (no more playstation gaming) so rather than people "making-ends-meet" people can find other who can outright pay for things EASILY (maybe with a bit of HUMAN outreach).
These excellent / experienced people of the past are needed as part of the overall engine for community (again I think we can do better at spreading the word MORE PERSONALLY *while* working on things together on whatever human level like talking circles about it even if it's about having fun while money literally runs dry- not just work work work / code code code.
SUMMARY: That's one half of solution (finding rich nice people) and 2nd half of solution is the longterm game below (in short that we can't win the game of money / spiraling debt / x = [x+%] from banks, they own it and only give it out with debt or % on top. Game over if we only pay money interactions... Read on for more if you really care about life using money and want to spiral human interaction for the time we still have left!
Remember people are migrating now from places only because of money (there is plenty to do but the banks and gov don't want to pay or create those job so we have to create our own / give each other something to do also!)
SO the other half of finding rich people to help pay, is this battle:
understanding rent is a killer and NOT to ignore banks and landlords that are deliberately a politically a losing game for people in that they do literally choose who gets money and who doesn't and basically NEVER listen... to anything lol.
So turning the heat up at the same time [especially in 2022] is waiting disaster I suggest teaming up even randomly to give time to show our powers (can't expect all ACES or ALL-STARS, and actually the mass is what is needed either way for engagement).
So no use ignoring things getting less as rent goes up more and more (Berlin is a nightmare right now with extortionate prices for 1 bedroom- yes we might pay any price but this is not really possible or worth accepting)
NOT IGNORING GREED
I was never a fan of rent as it's proportional to the unwillingness by others and even the opposite which is feeding greed and control held against our own life in the end (even when houses are paid for many times over we still keep on paying).
It's political so I expect people to not read anymore but encourage you to think "I'm next also" in the type of Jenga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenga of price increases and consider everything is politics (tech is born / stemmed from Gov / banks same as everything) so just to pay them is not enough (not anymore) THEY WANT YOU TO CONFORM EVEN MORE
We do risk becoming homeless naturally from this as they directly or indirectly rack up conditions / make things digital-only and up the prices and political heat...
This doesn't take away from individual, just I respect it's happening / going to happen to all of us so finding richest-open-source-friendly mentality is key in future to make things last
As a last note in order for Stux possibly not to see this (as we talk about it before) it's also important to realise without 'salt in the wound' that money is not just a neutral tool and highly developed in many sub-dividing ways (such as being tied to law, negative maths (debt), government spending, public usage of tax by banks (a private company!) etc etc). Just not good on many fronts and no way around that (or just not expecting to pay to get out of it).
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SIDE-NOTE: Another shut down
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