I like to be prepared for most situations, so this is the stuff I have in my backpack every day (top left to bottom right):

• Two USB cables
• USB charger
• Pen
• Deodorant
• Tissues
• Radiacode 102
• Power bank
• 2x USB C to A adapter
• USB condom
• Some emergency cash
• Tape
• Flipper zero
• Multitool
• Mints
• Desinfectant
• Wurkkos FC11C flashlight
• Hair ties
• Airtag
• Earplugs
• Sunscreen
• FFP2 masks
• Disposable gloves
• Some meds / band aids

Additionally in my pockets:

• Keys
• Wallet
• Bluetooth earbuds
• Phone

Some years ago, I hosted my own matrix server for a few months. I'm an experienced self-hoster, but I remeber that Matrix was paticularly hard to host, requiring weird proxy rules, DNS adjustments, federation never worked reliably and push notifications never worked at all. I ditched the project soon because I also had no real use for it. However, I recently had some ideas where a Matrix server would be useful again. Has anyone attempted to install it recently and can tell me whether the situation has improved? Also, which server do you recommend? There still is synapse but I found it paticularly complicated to host. Dendrite is now archived and the current fork seems to be tuwunel which doesn't seem to be under very active development.