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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Also, merch for organizations providing free shit is a way to financially contribute and to get the word out about the project. Especially something like home assistant where most people have never heard of it, and many may think it's too hard, you can get the word out and maybe even get some people interested in getting free from corpo ecosystems.