This, but instead of your rant against the US, just humans in general. Every country has those kinds of people that would be/enable evil. The only difference is that that in different places their evilness is allowed in different amounts/representation.

Depends what the relationship between me and the person they cheated with is.

If it’s my brother (or anyone I know well) they cheated with, sure I’d confront him. If it’s some stranger, no.

For any advice post, there should be one thing that is most important: a clear description of the problem.

Otherwise, all advice is almost completely random/useless. Because maybe changing the name is the right solution, but maybe it isn’t. There’s no way to know.

In my opinion, there is no explanation of the problem at all here. You just say “too identifiable”, however my name/lastname is probably also completely unique, yet I can’t even think of a problem I would have with that.

So, what is the actual problem?

Well, this is in the context of people choosing to accept donations as an open-source developer. Taking donations requires opt-in, I would assume someone like you just wouldn’t take them in the first place.

However, I’m sorry that they make you uncomfortable or even guilty, because that sounds to me like you think you don’t deserve them. Which to me, is sad, because the other person making the donation definitely thinks you deserved it.

But they don’t produce output

I would argue that this is not even close to true.

As an open source developer myself, my contribution to open source is pretty much exactly proportional to how well I’m feeling. Getting a donation makes me feel appreciated, using the money makes me feel better, all leading to me being more motivated to spend time on some open-source.

Obviously, being able to only work on open-source would generate more output, but the psychological impact of feeling appreciated to output can’t be dismissed and is huge.

I mean, if you simply want your code to be available somewhere so that you can access it from anywhere/have a backup, you can just not use any “service” at all. Just make a bare git repo on your server and expose it via ssh.

Only if you really need the collaboration features should you be using these kind of services, otherwise you just don’t really need them. (I would use Forgejo from Codeberg.)

I challenge you to name a country where military veterans are not, in the broadest sense, at least viewed positively by the general public.

The level of it is different, but I don’t know any country where the majority views their veterans unfavourably.

And like religion, it’s necessary for their minds because the truth would make them break.

Not really, they did give their lives. The propaganda part is what they gave it for.