"I'm not quite dead yet!"

They are recommending the Anker PowerConf S330, that is about 100eur. Can any one recommend a more budget friendly option?

How does this compare with matrix?

O Shely 3EM é uma boa escolha. Podes tentar procurar uns videos sobre como montar no youtube, mas se tens pouca experiência a mexer em instalações eléctricas talvez seja mais prudente contratar um electricista para fazer a instalação.

May I ask what do you guys have exposed to the internet?

I personally just have a wireguard VPN (single UDP port open) and everything is accessible through an internal reverse proxy. I just never felt the need to expose nothing ant least not web related.

Definitely sushi

I for one was not familiar with this and even if the source is not reliable there sure is an unhealthy amount of politics involved.

This and keep subscribing to anything that interests you

Phone bridge!? can you elaborate please?

Just install it, works pretty smoothly. I will keep an eye out for those features.

Looking at the screen shots it seems nice. I got a couple of questions: -Does it have/ have any plan to add Android auto support? -Is the APK in any play store?

Honestly is not a big deal. Some specific instance might start behaving like aholes because of corporate greed or anything else.

All they can do is take their specific communities down. The affected communities can always move to other instance (that is easier than changing to a different system all together).

Changing platforms will always be harder than just switch instance because you instance changed the rules on you.