The intranet *becomes* the internet :) Everything is local, accessible from multiple devices within my wLAN. The main box plugs into the router and serves everything over Wifi to trusted devices - my documents, media, books, games etc. I wrote (flippantly) about the bones of the system here, 3 or 4 months ago. It's more complex now, but the endgame has always been "what if cloud, but you are your own cloud?" https://lemmy.world/post/41315607/21438607 It may not be fresh (if the net goes down), but it *would* be local. The only real question I have to grok for myself is if I want to mirror curated section of Wikipedia, books etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix Probably I should. May as well go full data-horder. Good excuse to get a few more TB of storage. What I've done so far is all within 4TB, using clever tricks and black magic but there's a limit to 4TB. Fortunately, hard drives are still not too $$$. +4TB is about $200 here locally. So the entire set up is still around $600-700 AUD (around $350-400 USD) All the other stuff I have more or less tee-ed up (barring the UPS + solar kit I am building later in the year). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q4dUt1yK0g Anyhow, 8TB local should just about cover what I have in mind (he said, fully aware of dragon horder sickness). Then I'll grab something for offsite storage for critical docs - I have an old raspberry pi with a 256GB NVMe ssd I can use for that. I'm semi tempted (because fuck it, why not have fun) to look into LoRA after that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa What I really NEED to do is finish the LLM stack (I'm on it and nearly done) and then do a curated Youtube replacement with yl-dlp feeding into Nova-player or Jellyfin, once/if SmartTube etc gets shit-canned. The youtube thing I'm kinda excited about because I've figured out how to squeeze ~1500 videos in around 250ish GB of storage, with TTL (time to live) mechanics, download replacement schedule etc. The kids watch too much random shit on YT, so daddy will make YT at home (ha!). I have some other wild ideas too...it's a whole other thing...don't get me started :) Once I'm finished, I will open-source the entire thing, post about it here, and let others replicate / improve on it. And so it goes. Once you begin walking down the dark path, you are forever doomed. Be careful :)