Blender 3D is free. So HAH!

Torrents are free

There's actually a lot of free stuff out there.

Many blogs simply serve as a creative outlet for their authors. And there are plenty of tools that someone developed, others improved, and that still others put online, just because. And then there are a lot of peoples pet projects anyone can enjoy. All for free, because the only thing nicer that creating stuff is sharing that stuff.

There are just also a bunch of assholes.

Welcome to the fediverse!

Advanced Ip scanner is free.

Linux distros?

I get your point though.

There is a lot of free stuff both free as in beer and free as in speech

If they just want an email address, I like to put in president@whitehouse.gov

I've got a spreadsheet of fake accounts I use, has dobs, cities, etc. entirely fake people.

I have to use a Mac for work and stumbled across the fact that apparently you can create as many fake emails as you want to hide your email address when signing up for services, then I realized they were essentially just aliases because all the emails just forward to your actual email address until you delete the alias. I suppose it would make it easy to filter them to another folder though. It's part of their private relay feature for iCloud.

Overall mildly helpful I suppose.

Check out LMMS, maybe. Depending on your needs.

Reaper. Technically not free, but you get 2 months fully-functional for free and, after the trial ends…it remains fully-functional just with a nag screen that you dismiss with one click

It doesn’t look fancy and there’s a bit of a learning curve, but it’s incredibly powerful and when you feel guilty enough to pay it’s also incredibly cheap (and a one-time purchase)

Ardour maybe?

Personally only used to record and edit vinyls when my Gentoo had a hefty memory leak (I'm talking filling up 0.5 GB per second) with its self compiled audacity, but it seems like a more professional version of audacity