I do as well and I want BUT I dislike two key facts: - the development and use of services useful at small scale is essentially ceased in the last decades, mea

I do as well and I want BUT I dislike two key facts: - the development and use of services useful at small scale is essentially ceased in the last decades, meaning it's harder to keep up. We still have emails (even if current antispam solutions makes hard to have personal mailserver able to communicate with anyone) but feeds are more and more useless since most sites or do not offer them or publish just titles and ads and so on; - older services got abandoned and modern ones try to mimic the giants ones, being needlessly complex and heavy for personal use. Let's talk clear: - we do not have modern MUAs, comfy enough. Yes, we have notmuch-emacs, Mu4E, but a proper setup demands few hundred SLoC at least, not something as simple a state: this is the root dir to downloads all my messages, keep them on server or delete, few filters and auto-refile rules, remote credentials and stop; - we do not have file sharing stuff the easy way, the least obscene is WebDAV that's supported by most OSes, but most people do not know it, so we just need web-apps to mimick a file manager Google Drive alike to makes others able to reach our files; - we do lost most of the desktop computing model, with people on limited and limiting mobile devices, who happen to be integrated only with cloud crap; - IPv6 is not that widespread in the form a a global per any device, and personal domains are not much used by most. Technically ANYTHING needed is there, but since most people do not know it and some bi&powerful want anybody on their servers we essentially have very little margin of maneuvers. Modern telephony is old classic VoIP, but most carriers do not offer few settings to connect any softphone or a personal PBX (Yate/Asterisk) to them, mails are still there, but for most mails means webmails, some big vendors have even buggy IMAP (GMail) or no IMAP/POP at all (TutaNota) or try to push their new favorite protocol (Proton Mail/JMAP). The value of having messages managed on personal iron, locally indexed, having a domain name with various subdomains and so on is unknown to most. Cars nowadays have wifi and mobile connections but nothing to be directly connected to their formal owner, anything goes through the OEM server, who happen to be the substantial owner. In the 2030 "you'll own nothing" is a THREAT TO THE HUMANITY but most seems to like it and few like the profitable outcome of that. That's the real issue.