Keep Odyssey alive.

There's no license here. No expiry. No one to activate. This is the free world — and we believe in it.

But we believe in all sides of the coin. Not just the one that says "download the ISO."

I started Odyssey out of passion, and the pure spirit of the voyage — Odyssey, after all. Then I realized something: as it was, it wouldn't survive long.

The human cost behind this is immense. There are thousands of hours behind Odyssey. There's one person, full time, who for an entire year gave up every night out, every Friday at the bar, every Sunday — to work on it. Continuous, exhausting, relentless refinement. The infrastructure. The server. The website. The distribution and everything that keeps it running — the parts you don't see. I even built a PyQt program to automate package compilation and management. The supply-chain security — don't get me started.

This is not a clone. This is not a reskin of someone else's work. This is a serious project. Independent, yes — but built to a semi-professional standard. And a project like this cannot run on goodwill alone.

I believe in this. I believe in digital freedom, in privacy, in the beauty of clean code, in Linux, in respecting users — in giving them tools that are simple, sensible, useful, made to make their experience better. Maybe even unique.

But do you?

Here's the other side of the coin, the one nobody wants to look at: who pays for the server? Who keeps the lights on? Where does the time come from? A project like this doesn't survive on a one-time donation dropped in a jar and forgotten.

That's why I built the Argonauts. Not a donation button — a new model. A community distribution, maintained by one person, funded by the people who decide it's worth keeping alive. A small act of faith and shared responsibility.

Working on Odyssey makes me happy. Dedicating myself fully to it is my dream. And I can do it — if you decide it's worth it too.