> I had certain expectations for the future. Smart homes that did my bidding, palm-sized computers that were truly my own, and functional ecosystems that accura

> I had certain expectations for the future. Smart homes that did my bidding, palm-sized computers that were truly my own, and functional ecosystems that accurately responded to my voice or presence all felt right You can have your family set up with Fairphones that run /e/ or similar and self host everything today (nextcloud, hass, VPN). This does get you very close. It also means you have to put up with significant maintenance work, especially catering towards the corporate edges. Case in point, I just spent an hour debugging why we couldn't share YouTube links to our Kodi TVs anymore...