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I've decided that this avenue to integration isn't really what I want. I'm not super interested in a big screen connected to a phone that can barely drive it and a solid game.

But I do really really want to simplify my life in terms of identity and storage. I'd like to simply have the same view of data on all my devices, with probably my phone acting as a central source of truth in terms of identity and carrying around a hot cache of important data.

But I don't just mean using dropbox everywhere. That's really clunky to me. I want it to be better, but no one's really put it all together right yet.

I feel like plan9 was on to a lot of this stuff a long time ago but it fizzled out, an idea ahead of its time, with bits and pieces of its ideas taken out of context and rendered largely useless (please don't tell me linux does filesystem namespaces now, it's really not the same).

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You might be interested in upspin.io. It's by some of the people involved in plan9 and/or Go.

It's an ambitious project because ultimately you need to coerce all the apps with valuable data to export to or be compatible with upspin to realize the dream, so to speak.

However right now I've already found it useful for storing my personal files and media and I've enjoyed reading the codebase.

This might not be the right crowd, but iCloud is really the un-clunky storage accessible from everywhere. It's just so well integrated between the phone, macbook, ipad, web. Worth it. I spend like $9-10 per month for 2TB of storage. with auto sync of my photos (which is where it really shines)

Yeah he's literally described iCloud. Even though it's moved into some dropbox competitor, that's really the secondary usecase for it.

The thing is I find my iCloud files are forming a canonical documents folder across my devices, whereas I always felt Dropbox was distinct from my documents folder.

Yes, but that is assuming it is accessible everywhere. Majority in the world still do not have an fast enough wired connection.

Not sure if Apple is having some heavy hands in this but I think 4.9G and 5G will fix this within next 10 years. While it is still a little too early to tell, it does have the potential to be used as the sole connection in many areas.

> I'd like to simply have the same view of data on all my devices, with probably my phone acting as a central source of truth in terms of identity and carrying around a hot cache of important data.

have you been reading my ssb log[0][1]? or lurking in our matrix room[2]? that's kind of exactly what the libre software project i contribute to is trying to build. we're a small team rn, but i think the direction we're going is pretty cool.

[0] https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%256GAD8%2F8qQC26qFTgYvQZ3q97qY...

[1] https://git.heropunch.io/%251BtG8h6Oh6uI7kjnZkvK20wqLrCZlbbF...

[2] #heropunch:matrix.org

I see what you mean. For this kind of stuff, I am backering a promising lapdock called the Mirabook (from Miraxess : https://miraxess.com/miraxess-brand/). Exactly what you are defining tho, with your mobile phone as a central source of power.

> I'd like to simply have the same view of data on all my devices, with probably my phone acting as a central source of truth in terms of identity and carrying around a hot cache of important data. But I don't just mean using dropbox everywhere.

Would a NAS from Synology or QNAP offer what you're looking for?

I have a NAS with 14TB and, while it helps, it's not as easy as what another commenter suggested for iOS/Apple: iCloud subscription.

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