Thank you for sharing, I just answered!
tsl
joined 2 years ago
I would say around 15 years ago, it was Windows XP
But it did MOST of the times...
Oh, I don't know how it is nowadays, I have switched to Linux since many years ago...
Very often sfc /scannow will ask for an installation media, which, in a corporate environment, means sending the machine to onsite support for either "fixing" or "reimaging". It's basically the command you should try first if you don't want to help someone fixing the issue. "See? There is something wrong with your installation, you should fix that before doing anything else..."
I used that trick a few times myself to get rid of poorly behaving people.
I've been self-hosting Matrix Synapse for more than two years to chat friends and family and it has been rock-solid and it's on a VPS that os hosting a Nextcloud and Lemmy instance as well. It is definitely not really resource hungry for small groups of people.
If you want to try again this route, just make sure that everybody saves a backup of their keys as the messages are all encrypted and while you can authenticate a new client installation from another client that the same user is logged in, some people - like my mother - only use one, on her phone, which is understandable.
So in summary, I'm very happy with it! :)
Less releases with more testing. I normally wait some time before upgrading (no matter the application) as I prefer stability over extra/new features that I may use or not.