Does it even make sense to keep playing with a Manjaro VM or just go straight Arch?

Yes but most of them are off lol

That sounds like Logo

I still have a bunch of zip disks that I want to examine. Think they’re still good?

hmm, I wonder if there’s a way for me to host my own matrix server and do the bridging myself, like a docker container or something.

Where would be a good starting point to check out a list of instances with these bridges? And how safe are they?