How it works: each service, shown doing its job

The address is yours, on your own domain (like rossi.example), and the mail app you already use keeps working. The machine that receives the mail runs for you alone, and junk mail is filtered out before it reaches you.

Your files stay the same everywhere because every device talks to your own machine, not to a company's cloud. Sharing is a link you hand to someone, and you can take it back.

One password, and the same account, for mail, files, photos and the rest (single sign-on, SSO). Losing a device is one action, not a tour of eight settings pages.

The safe (a password manager) is locked with a master password only you know, so what is inside is unreadable to anyone else, including me. Shared drawers hold the passwords the family or the office uses together.

Calendars and the address book live on your machine and sync to iPhone, Android, Thunderbird and classic Outlook for Windows (CalDAV and CardDAV, the open standards they all speak). Invitations from outside keep arriving as invitations.

Every phone in the family uploads by itself, as it did to Google or Apple; the difference is where the photos live. They are found again by face or place, and albums can be shared with whom you choose.

Every night an encrypted copy is made, and a second copy goes to another building. Twice a year a restore is tested and the result is written into the report you receive. Sync keeps files the same everywhere; a backup keeps yesterday, which is what you need when today's copy is the wrong one.

A private network (VPN) makes any connection as safe as the one at home: everything between the device and your machine is encrypted, and your machine is the only place it goes.

The model (an LLM, the kind of software behind the well-known chat assistants) runs on a graphics card inside your machine, so the documents and the questions never leave it. For the larger models there is a machine built for the purpose.

The text is read off the scan (OCR), so a search for a name, a date or an amount finds the page. The paper can go in a box.

Household or office accounts and budgets, kept where your other data is. It is not an invoicing program.

Shared to-do lists and boards for the household or the office, the same on every device.

Your own films and music, streamed inside the house or over the private network, on any screen.

Remote support works only while you allow it, and you watch what is done. When the session ends, the door is shut until you open it again.

Version history (git) for code or documents, with a wiki beside it for writing things down. For those who need it.