Don’t you generally want much more than 8gb of ram for most serious AI applications ? Many small language models fit in there, but if you’re gonna buy dedicated hardware, what is the target demo for this ?

It affects its use for me definitely. I don’t want to have a phone number. At all.

Signal requires a phone number on setup.

Also, matrix has bridges, which alone make it worthwhile for me. They, of course, don’t help privacy, but they are so so nice for convenience.

Matrix is definitely slow though, and a grand majority of the clients are heavy terrible buggy electron apps. There are a few good ones ( nheko and the new beeper clients ), but even they have some rough edges.

I still use matrix all the time and love it.

If max privacy was the goal I think simplex looks wonderful. No required info for sign up, no way for them to possibly collect any metadata ( because there are no identifiers sent over internet for anyone at all ), E2EE, and decentralized.