And ? Obviously it’s not the for-profit structure which would benefit from donations. VC money is one way of financing things (which has the cash burn rate issue), public money and donations is another, why would changing from one model to another be something bad?

This post is by the Matrix foundation, not Element.

Hyperbola has a strange philosophy about a lot of packages: https://web.archive.org/web/20240124002440/https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages

Just use an app like Authenticator importing the Aegis export file.

It’s probably not used anymore since the FreeDesktop Gitlab instance exists.

There’s some activity there. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/activity