That so many people have not played factorio is suprising...

Factorio CnC red alert 2 Half life 2 Turrican 2 Shadow of the beast 2 Rimworld

I seem to like a lot of 2's...

I have seen that as well in a norwegian car magazine. Iirc it was a little under a year. 8 ish months? But ofcourse the graph would vary wildly baded on monthly km driven. And i do not remeber what km/month they used.
A longer commute would recoup the difference much faster then a short one.

Really? I must not have much to say ;)

Read the debian release docs about the major upgrade when that time comes. They sometime contain important adaptations to make your upgraded install similar to a fresh one.

Windows need a regular reinstall. Not so much on linux.
My daily driver at work is the same install from 2000. I was so impressed with debians abillity to do a major upgrade, that it kind of became a game, to see how long i could upgrade it. A fresh install and copy over /home would have been more sane ;) Also with lvm you can migrate your running install to a new os drive while working. So hardware swap is a 5 min process. Boot new hw on old disk, with usb adapter. pvmove the install to the new drive. Install grub.

I do fresh installs on many other machines tho. My daily driver at home and the emergency laptop is installed when they are aquired, and upgraded as long as the hardware functions.

Sls-> redhat -> debian (potato) around year 2000 ish. Been running debian since.

Just based on the names. But I assume things like element call is implementable by other clients as well.

Afaik there is a docker compose as well. It is probably all of the above. Alignment with elements seems like it just by the name. And easier setupbif you want all the bells and whistles you can add onto matrix.
For some that might be a bad thingnif it exclude some clients. While other wsnt the features.

Have you looked into https://element.io/en/server-suite/community ?

I run my own server for friends and family. And there are more abd more optional addons that may have made that server suite a more sane place to start when selfhosting. I have not evaluated it tho, but thought you should know about it.

Hanlons razor.. probably just lots and lots of peaple + stupidity. But it could very well be both..

If you have the url. Have you looked for it on the wayback internet archive?

Thank you. Lots of different views. Will read. There was also recently an talk on hard fork on this issue. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tZSteN2g5yM

My personal opinion is that things that let you curate your own content like lemmy/reddit is good(ish) and things where the company curate the feed is more a trap. But i am not a scientist, just curious.