to be fair, that wouldn't be my pick at that pricepoint. That single-core performance would still be unmatched, but I would have something with better IO, more RAM, and more life in it.
And thanks to the 8GB soldered RAM you've got, you will enjoy this ludicrous speed for about 5 minutes of mild usage, thanks to liquid glass, electron apps and modern web. Brilliant.
What's your use case justifying the pain and suffering of self-hosting Matrix?
That's not how jurisdiction works, though. If you have a presence in California, sure that applies to you. Otherwise? California has no ability and no legitimacy under international laws to enforce this. Then there are bilateral treaties that muddy the waters, but that doesn't apply here on the basis that it's a state law and it can't apply retroactively. Also, IANAL and would love to hear from one.
First, the open source world isn't monolithic, by definition. Second, why should "the world" in general care about the plans from some unhinged regional policymakers from a country that bet on isolationism?
JFYI - after many years of trusting Borg with my backups, I found Kopia to be MUCH faster, in both snapshots creation time and browsing/diffing. I backup my whole home every 6 hours, so going from ~20min down to ~3min is an appreciable win. There's also a web endpoint to Kopia that may make backing up on the go easier when you can't trust your tunnel to home.
I stand to disagree about the non normie-friendly qualifier here. My entire family has been daily driving Conversations in place of WhatsApp for more than a decade now. Gajim on Windows just works. Bridging large rooms with IRC is a better experience with Biboumi+Gajim than any previous GUI+Bouncer combo I've used before and became the preferred way for new inbounds at my local club where IRC is a must. The pace of improvement is good and steady and there isn't anything major missing.
Nextcloud is way too bloated
It really isn't, though? What if you deploy it from source with just the modules you need and a tuned config for PHP/postgres?
Seems to me that those are generally enabled by bots and scripting, and I don't think it's any harder to do that stuff in XMPP than it is in discord?
That there's no shortage of wheels being reinvented, and that it takes insights developed over decades to be relevant in this field. To avoid.
My parents in their 70's are alright daily driving gajim there
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Hard disagree, the more you look at it, the more this can be described as "a product to convince people that discuss technology online that this is a product for tons of people". Most people need HDMI more than they need record-matching single-thread performance. Most people need more RAM because almost all they do is web-based and not MacOS native. Most people need I/O because they have mice, weird peripherals, and tons of usb drives, mostly USB-A.
That said, it's a magnificent second or third device for the tech elite that's already committed to the Apple ecosystem (having nothing on-device, whose peripherals and I/O needs are covered by more general-purpose computers) and who will absolutely brag that the performance of this lets them do lots of coding (using it as a metric for what a good computer is, in their eyes). Strangely both things can be true at the same time!