Wow, that’s cool! (and chilling for that flight article…)

I was thinking of an explicit personal instance (which may have selected shared components in a ballpark similar way as the open social does it), because the latest events with Apple triggered me to think again of a deaggregated personal device: a separate unit for mobile internet, a separate unit for GPS, a separate unit for camera, etc., all pushing the data to a “personal network cache NAS”, and replicating to the central personal server. This way the peripheral units can be made quite small, simple and modular, and the complicated logic can sit server side… I suppose it’s quite a drift from what you had as a use case, but FWIW :-)

Hmmm yep, that is interesting. I am going down a similar route, but by replacing my phone with something that will become my primary computing device (either a pi-based cyberdeck, or something like the librem5). I want to effectively just carry around a SD card or small SSD with all my data, all the time. The peripheral to access this doesn't really matter to me. I never call anyone using cell networks, and only rarely use signal if I need voice/video chat which I do over wifi anyway. I guess I could also load English wikipedia onto it and directly run mirrorspace as localhost on my device...

The main blocker for me is that my partner wants to always be able to reach me in an emergency... haven't found a solution for that one yet.