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by rakoo 1991 days ago
There is an active network of associative ISPs in France, and they have come up with an Internet-in-a-box thing: https://internetcu.be/. Basically it tunnels everything to a VPN of your choice (so you bypass your residential limitations) and has a yunohost "OS", so you can install anything you want with a few clicks.

I'm sure other projects have started something like that, but I can't find them
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olah_1 1991 days ago
FreedomBox[1] is another project like that. The main issue plaguing these things (in my opinion) is the "jack of all trades, master of none" problem.

It does a lot, but does none of them outstandingly well. I'd prefer to see FreedomBox just focus on having a best-in-class Matrix server for example.

Another (more recent) example is Dappnode[2]. They are kinda like Sandstorm but only for node servers that are part of decentralized networks.

[1]: https://www.freedombox.org/

[2]: https://dappnode.io/

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rakoo 1991 days ago
What do you think is missing in mastering a specific usage, say Matrix ? It seems to me FreedomBox installs and configures a specific package, let's say synapse, along with the needed databases; what more can it do ?

internetcube uses yunohost, so the quality of the box depends much more on a project that isn't tied to this specific box and can leverage improvements made by other users. yunohost is used for people who want to self-host with a machine they already have, or with a VPS.

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