I had a look at the system, and it is a commercial product, I would imagine that their customers have requested these features.

Since you are a customer, why not request your features to be added as well?

Or, better yet, since you have explained that creating an XMPP/Matrix module as an alternative to email requires no coding, and the plattform is open source, why not just slap it together yourself?

You don’t have to write code to configure Matrix/XMPP.

You do realize that the developers need to write code to configure a Matrix/XMPP module? The module doesn’t just appear out your immagination.

Then it will need to be maintained as security holes are discovered.

Tell me again why developers should spend the time and resources to maintain a feature that at best will have a marginal impact on the userbase, over focusing on the core of the project.

Most people have no idea they exist.

That is my point.

If you write software, and need a way for it communicate with the user outside of the app, implementing email is simple, just about everyone with internet access has an email address and it is free.

XMPP/Matrix is a lot of added work that will only benefit those who:

1. Knows what they are and
2. Has or are willing to set up an account and
3. Care enough about it to do that rather than just using email.

I think you will find that the groups of persons who all three critera fits is vanishingly small.

So, please tell me why a developer should focus their time doing that rather than building the core features of the app.

EDIT:

I write this as someone who has used Jabber/XMPP and Matrix in the past, they are great services and I wish they had a longer reach. This is not a hill for you to die on.

XMPP and Matrix are not near universal.

Most people have no idea about that the hell the first one is, and are even more confused as to why you start talking about a movie when you just complained about email.

Wow, ok so that is how you deal with critics…

I knew it was going to be a sore point, my hope was that you was going to say something like:

Fair point, I guess I did come one a bit strong on that point…

Downvoted due to your annoying rant about about up/downvotes.

Sigh, please stop using that argument, it is an easy cop out, and you don’t actually help your cause by analyzing the real issue.

The real reason why people willingly use Windows is multifaceted and can be boiled down to a few points.

1. It is the defacto standard. If you are going to use a desktop/laptop computer you will probably use Windows, especially at work.
2. Most users know Windows in some capacity, this means that companies have an easier time finding staff than if they used something else, it wouldn’t be impossible but it would mean spending more time and money training the staff and causing them to be less productive for longer as they learn the system. This is slowly changing with the rise of web apps, chromebooks and Macs. But still, having IT support a fleet of Linux desktops/laptops when working in a non IT sector would be increadibly wasteful
3. Software, like it or not, Windows has a huge amount of proprietary software dominance, organizations LOVE proprietary software and dislike FOSS for one reason. Liability. This means that they get a number to call, email to contact, a person to yell at, they can deflect complaints and seem like they are a strong decisive company by taking legal action against an external party, and not have the buck stop with themselves.

I am an IT technician, this is what I have seen in the corporate world.

By talking about “brainwashing” you remove most of the actual information that could help you figure out how Linux could be better suited for the masses, and to be frank, using a word like “brainwashing” makes the Linux community seem a bit unhinged/cultish.

Focus on facts, then you can use them to change the actual issue.

I buy individual songs on iTunes, I can back them up without DRM to my NAS.

I dislike the entire concept of renting my music.

Since I started using an iPhone back in 2016, I have bought 781 songs, songs that I don’t have to pay to access.

He has been making Youtube videos for years, if he was a fraud, which you imply, someone would have found evidence of it

Has ubuntu started using DNF?

That is dumb, space is extremely expensive to get to, power is fairly limited, cooling is a nightmare, and micro meteorite impacts can not only dammage the data center, but possibly initiate Kessler syndrome.

Now a few years ago I read an old article about Microsoft experimenting with submerged data centers which is a way better idea, it is relatively cheap to get to, power is easy to deal with, cooling is trivial, and you don’t need to worry about micro meteorites or Kessler syndrome.

I am currently in the final phase of building my first own built NAS.

(I have an oooooold Intel NAS, that I don’t really use anymore…)

I need to populate the case with storage drives, I need to add an Intel GPU, a 10gbit NIC, and possibly add an HBA to add two SSDs for VM storage.

Currently I have a:

• Jonsbo N4 case
• Asrock B550m Pro4
• AMD Ryzen 4600G
• 32GB RAM
• Kingston boot SSD
• Corsair SF750 PSU

I am running TrueNAS on it, that was just installed to make sure that it is working, but I am planning on running it going forward, as I am mostly looking to run the server as a filserver.

Fans and pumps don’t have any moving parts any longer?

I leave my work machine on constantly, but am very careful and shut down my home machine when I go to bed.

It just feels wrong to leave it powered up.

It isn’t, it is the least bad

You don’t really need a self hosted app, you can write a script to do the following:

1. Check if file X exists.
2. If file X does exist, delete it
3. If file X doesn’t exist, delete directory Y

Then create a new scheduled task to run the script every week.

The result is that you have a deadman switch with a weeks delay

Unless you recreate file X every week, directory Y will be deleted.

This is a very simplistic example, but it would be decently difficult to figure out.

I am a hobby photographer and usually take a few hundred GBs of photos every year (I shoot in JPG+RAW), I have other media as well, but I am mainly concerned about my photos.

I have them currently saved to a single HDD in my computer, which has worked ok, but I have seen bitrot in some files…

So I was reliable storage, currently thinking of a zraid1 with four normal disks, one parity, one hot spare and one cold spare, I am looking for it to last a minimum of ten years with normal maintenance.

I will probably put 64GB ram in the server, and possibly an SSD cache over time

I am currently building a home server, this project timeline has been extended as I had no idea hard drives would be THAT expensive at the capacities I want…

I do have an old computer that is not in use, but I don’t want to run a Bulldozer plattform…

So I am basing my new server on the AMD Ryzen 4600G, should be fine

If that is the GZ version, what would the BZ2 and XZ versions look like

Interesting, I have to look into that, I am taking it slow, and will buy storage drives over a few months to spread the cost out, so I have time to think about it