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My Dream of a Home Router / Server (friendica.ginestes.es)

submitted 1 day ago by abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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What if you could buy off the shelf a box based on #opensource software and hardware that you could plug into your internet connection. You could connect to via Wifi and it would allow an average person to fairly easily configure, via a guided setup, a self hosted Cloud Drive, Social Media server, home automation service, VPN end point, email server and other commonly useful software?

What if that box allowed that person's friends to authenticate and to that box and link a box they own, either close by or remotely. It could extend connectivity and estabilish a chain of trus, provide a level of encrypted backup of content from that box and make assertions about the users on that box such as - This user account is owned by this person, this user account is over 18?

This is a dream. I know I'm rambling. #openwrt, #yunohost, #seflhost, #chainoftrust, #fediverse

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There have been such attempts, like Nextbox for example. But afaik they have been all commercial failures, IMHO because basically anyone that cares enough about this stuff can build their own for a much lower price, and those that don't...

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 2 points 1 day ago

@poVoq Yeah I think this is kind of like early generation touch screen devices (such as #PDAs that were evolutionary steps towards #smartphones - The pricepoint is obviously an issue - But my experience with #BananaPi and low cost #N100 intel based hardware makes me think that we are moving toward something.