The worst I've ever had happen could be fixed with the (prompted) --allow-erasing flag, and I messed around with additional repositories a lot

If you pick one of the core distros like (Fedora/Centos/RHEL/SuSE) or (Debian/Ubuntu) they have been around for decades and will be around for decades more. You don't have to pay attention to whatever trendy new Linux distro of the week has just come up.

Depends on the client you use. Sable has loads of features like that.

I avoid getting involved in these discussions, but previously on lemmy

Yeah lol.

Nah there are loads of smaller instances. Pretty much any nano or micro or small AWS instance, for example: t3a.small 2vcpus 2 GiB 9.05/month

Unfortunately containerisation on macos usually means running virtualized Linux, which of course is going to add overhead and cut off access to apple APIs and some hardware. So yep. There's plenty that runs natively.

Last I visited, Barcelona was beautiful and the people living there adored it. London isn't terrible either, although housing is extortionate due to 'investors' and landlords

You might want to check out https://matrixrooms.info/, which is good for a search around. Some project communities also have offtopic rooms that are good to chat in. Even very small rooms can be very active.

Basically: record every song you listen to, and when you listen to it (plus some more metadata), and then add it to a giant public dataset. Open source software then uses that to make music recommendations based on your and other people's listening, and to give you interesting stats about your listening.

The Matrix Foundation and Element/New Vector are different orgs, and it's Element with the government contracts

Delta chat is hilariously slow. It's less of an instant messenger and moreover next business day messenger. That's ignoring the problems you'll have running it on your own infrastructure.

I finally dealt with the AI scrapers hammering my Forgejo instance - https://jade.ellis.link/blog/2025/05/18/actually-stopping-forgejo-ai-scraping Hopefully next week I'll be able to get back to actually programming Continuwuity rather than fighting fires.