Opisek

I run my own matrix server, too. I’ve never had any issues with updates. Honestly, I just pull the new docker image without thinking twice about it. It is risky, of course, but I have daily automated backups, so I’m not too concerned. Personally, I felt like setting up a matrix server for the first time was the biggest pain in the butt. It’s extremely convoluted with very poorly written documentation that is often outdated or incomplete. After I got through that, it was smooth-sailing from there. Setting up mautrix bridges one you got Synapse to work is actually really easy, though.

I recently started getting share.google links to web articles from my parents. I asked them to just give me the direct link instead, but I’m sure Google is making that as unintuitive to the user as possible. I’m not even sure where exactly these links come from.