Post #1476512

2026-04-21 01:25 UTC

It would be really nice to have a community where everyone had household compute that was their "main" computer. They could be the hubs for communications that's always on, and you could set it up to communicate with an otherwise anonymous public handheld, or just leave it until you get home and decide to get online. handhelds wouldn't need to be repositories of sensitive data, they could just be thin clients that could be safely wiped and restored (without needing a corporate entity's help or permission) in the event of damage or theft. Home networks could become overlapping network nodes, reducing or eliminating the need for regional or global internet provider services. We could really run the internet ourselves.

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@IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-21 13:35

I don't know about running the whole internet over peer-to-peer network, but my home server is pretty much the 'main' computer and while phones an laptops obviously have data locally it's also synced to the server so losing one mobile device isn't really a big deal (besides money to get a new one). Immich for photos, nextcloud for other data, radicale for contacts and calendar and self hosted imap-server for emails. Obviously the devices are still very much personal, but it's easy enough to wipe and start over if needed. For remote wipe I still need to rely with google on phone and with laptop there's currently no way to remote wipe it but it's running with encrypted drive anyway so it's only the monetary value of the thing in case it's lost.

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@HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 2026-04-21 13:02

I've sort of started to do something like this. I quit using streaming services, I re-downloaded a billion .mp3 files. I downloaded and converted all my Audible books and cancelled the service. I download podcasts instead of streaming them. If I'm going on a trip, I'll transfer a couple of audio books, some podcasts and a bunch of music to my phone. I keep about 5000 songs in the phone constantly, changing them every now and then as the feeling takes me. I use my phone like a old timey mp3 player and instead of carrying the local public trans schedule booklet, like I did 20 years ago, I now have the schedule website saved on my phone. I still have internet access and connection on the phone but I try to avoid it as much as possible. But I don't do silly extremes where I'm not "allowed" to use it at all. If I'm bored waiting for a doctor or something and I want to watch a youtube video, I watch a youtube video. But the strange thing is, once you think of the phone as a mp3 player, you sort of dont have the desire to use it as a instant entertainment machine. Some sort of switch snapped in my head when I did all that. Anyway, sorry if this became incoherent, I'm trying to type this out before getting my afternoon coffee and I want the coffee more than I want to make sense.

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