It’s developers working on their time to build an app they want. You don’t have the right to demand they do things your way.

Run your own instance. It’s the only way you’ll be able to set your own policies. Otherwise you’re subject to policies of the instance you’re on and those policies may change at any time.

I take the host my own instance path. It’s safer and more stable than relying on a third party.

Good question.

Add some memory and hard drives and slap TrueNas or Unraid on it.

That bad?

Last time I used Windows on my own was back in the XP days. I saw some of the early Vista and it was even worse. I can’t imagine what the recent versions are like.

Wallabag might work.

Have you considered hosting your own instance instead? Seems like that would solve the issue.

That’s lip service to privacy with spyware in reality.

Prosody here in addition to Matrix. :)

I use Matrix too. I’ve hosted my own Synapse instance for almost a year now. It works great. Easy to maintain and upgrade.

These are all good questions.

The lose of signal won’t matter. It happens to me all the time as I move from wifi to wifi.

For your third question, it depends on if you a have a key backup with a key security code. That’s something you should set up asap after your initial client login. If you do, then you can recover. You might want to look at https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/16202 for more explanation. The question comes up a lot.

Regardless, I’d make sure you’re always logged in twice if you can. Do you have Element Web running alongside Matrix? If you do, keep logged in on a desktop, or laptop. Just in case you lose the phone.