A consumer-friendly, packaged solution for self-hosted everything. Benefit: Ability to evict spying corporations from your life. How it would appear to the en

A consumer-friendly, packaged solution for self-hosted everything. Benefit: Ability to evict spying corporations from your life. How it would appear to the end user: You buy a packaged device (like a RPi in form factor and openness) from Wal-mart and plug it in. Set up the wifi (or wired) internet access, and it operates as your personal gateway. Need more storage? Plug in an additional USB drive. For convenience in this description, call it a "Home Hub" (probably already used by some product... not affiliated). Possibilities (1): You can have a Home Hub. Your parents can have a Home Hub. Your friend has a Home Hub. Your Home Hubs could act as an encrypted, distributed backup for each other (similar in idea to Raid 6?). If yours goes down, you can reconstitute the contents from your trusted backup pool (parent's and friend's devices). They have the same benefit, too. The more backup space that you offer to others, the more backup space you have available. Possibilities (2): Your phone. All pictures, contacts, messages, and other misc data could be backed up on and accessible by this system. Communication could use this system for calls, text, mail, etc., rather than the phone company. End-to-end encryption through the interconnections of Home Hub devices. (E.g., your phone -> your Home Hub -> your friend's Home Hub -> your friend's phone.) Possibilities (3): No need for G4e Drive, G4e Docs, M7t Office 365, Ae3 Cloud, etc. (Yes, I know that there is currently NextCloud and similar, but it appears to be a stand-alone solution, as opposed to a plugin to this larger ecosystem that I am proposing.) This system could host your own, available from anywhere. Possibilities (4): Track your device's location (or your child's location) without needing to share that information with a 3rd party. Possibilities (5): No more email. Replace with communications through Home Hub. It's almost impossible to run your own email server these days because the big providers reject any email not sent through the big providers. It will be impossible to bring in another standard, however, unless it is absolutely simple for the average user to use. I can think of several ways of supporting the common email use cases while also prohibiting spam. Possibilities (6): Yes, corporations and governments can use this system, too. But they will be constrained by the protections designed into the system. For example, a corporation could sell backup space (mentioned in #1) as a service, but because the information is encrypted (and Raid-striped?), they cannot know what is contained in the data. Possibilities (7): Social media could be built on this as well. I know about Mastadon, but it solves a different problem than my proposal. In short, we need a dead-simple widget that anyone can buy, plug-in, and connect to the Internet, and that can act as their way forcibly extract spying companies from their life. (Of course, associated mobile software would have to be created, etc.)