I prefer the Patreon model. Except I don’t even want Patreon perks. I want to give some projects money so they can keep doing exactly what they’re doing and provide it for free to other people.
Ads are a sign of desperation, that anybody with an MP4 and a part of a penny can buy space in somebody else’s project. It’s a last ditch effort when they can no longer provide enough quality to be worthy of money. I will literally give you free money if you make a good thing.
My parents were 911 dispatchers for decades. It’s how they met. They had 7 monitors last time I visited them at work 20 years ago. Their applications seemed to be built on the idea they had multiple monitors worth of space that they’d be stretched across.
If I remember accurately, there were 2 computers (and thus 2 mice and 2 keyboards). The first computer had 5 monitors and was the Google Maps equivalent for where all the active ambulances in the city were. The main application stretched across multiple monitors and had sub-windows with different operations in them. I think it also managed the radio between dispatcher and ambulance. The second computer was dedicated to the phone, the caller, any history attached to the phone number, and all the data 911 gets about your location. It took up the remaining few monitors. By now it’s probably 1 computer and even more monitors.
Because you can say anything you want about a god that doesn’t actually exist. He could cure cancer, turn you inside out, and show you the inside of a black hole. Just pray and interpret silence as a “no” but that doesn’t mean he couldn’t if he felt like it.