[jstummbillig]

To normies this is incredibly far from a bookshelf. What is a raspberry pi? What is the sqlite in doesn't-even-need-to-be-sqlite? Why do I have to care?

The highest level of questions you would need to be aiming for on the hardware side are: Where do I put this thing? Where did I leave the power chord? How do I turn it on?

If it doesn't turn on, you have someone repair it as you would any other electronic appliance. Can't be repaired? Get a new one. As soon as you plug it in it automatically fetches the automatically created backup. How? From where? What about encryption? The user is not qualified to answer any of that and should not be expected to care or expected to be involved into the decision. If I want to get involved with how electricity gets to my power socket I can look that stuff up on the internet. In the meantime just make it work without any intervention and with 99.9% reliability.

Us techies (maybe subconsciously) still lean way too much towards trying to involve users with the stuff we care about, when most of them just want our work to be invisible. Hide the complexity. Make it seamless. Make all tech a power socket.

[donkeybeer]

All that doesn't matter. What normies did was purchase a CD of a native application, install it and have it work basically forever; with zero need for servers or hosting costs.