Well hopefully the 2FA data is encrypted and the app requires a pin or password to access.
Plus my password manager also needs a pin after it times out, and my computers all have their drives encrypted too.
It’s plenty to stop casual thieves and such.
Looks like it has encrypted sync and desktop apps too, so that’s nice if you need stuff on multiple devices.
MacOS doesn’t run on my hardware, but yeah editing software and CAD software are the reasons I’m on Windows still.
Technically Davinci Resolve does run on Linux, but it’s not always stable and lacks certain codec support.
I haven’t found a good replacement for lightroom yet, darktable is too complex for me, and rawtherapee doesn’t really manage my library well but is an OK RAW editor.
The awful spam was the reason I left, I got mass invited to rooms with really nasty names, and there’s no way in the client to mass ignore invites, you have to go to each one and click ignore.
That wouldn’t be the end of the world, except their client seems to rely on waiting for the server to respond to an action in the foreground, so every time I click ignore it sits there processing for like 10-20 seconds before I can click the next one. There’s no select all, there’s no way to just rapidly tap ignore and have it process in the background like it should be doing.
Also they said even after banning the accounts, there’s no way on their end to remove the invites the banned account sent out.
Overall it’s just painful to use, the clients are bad, the moderation system doesn’t work (what kind of system lets 1 account send out thousands of invites?? It should have auto-banned them within the first 10 or something), their cleanup system doesn’t work, and everything just feels slow as molasses.
You need to learn some Docker stuff initially for sure, but the underlying OS can be anything including Windows which is why Docker is nice.
The database for Mealie is part of the app already and is handled automatically, with the SQLite docker-compose file they provide.
Most of the stuff I run on my server is just a basic docker-compose.yaml file and it’s up and running in a minute or two. Some random examples:
Most things are super easy, like 2-5 minutes of set up and it’s running and working.
It’s gonna be like 100 years before Matrix and the clients are in a good place at this rate. It only seems to be getting worse right now with more fragmented clients and servers with more and more spam issues, and the performance just keeps getting worse too.
Even their very own Element app is being retired and replaced by Element X which is missing a ton of features.
They still don’t have any of the features people coming from Discord/TS/Mumble are expecting like voice chat rooms, push to talk, or streaming to a room. They don’t have the features Telegram users are expecting like stickers, threads inside groups, read only channels, and so on…
The vast majority of users have no reason to switch since it’s nothing like the apps they are used to. And it’s buggy and slow on top of that.
Don’t get your hopes up, I deleted my account on matrix.org because of that same spam, and there’s no way to mass ignore invites to the hundreds of rooms from all the spam accounts they let run rampant.
Problem is then you miss important info, for example if friends are talking about a game server they’re running and post the connection details, or if they plan an event with a location and time to meet, if you don’t have a bouncer and were offline then you can’t see those messages.
Likely more efficient use of spectrum, which means more clients on a tower without everything grinding to a halt.
Discord is what people like and are used to though. If you want the average user to switch it needs to be somewhat familiar.
I think the barrier to entry is kind of high, you need to use a bouncer to see what happened while you were offline.
Secure boot force enabled with preset certificates would essentially do that.