One of the things I am currently experimenting with is building out my own agentic/assisted computing environment which instead of extending into Google/Microsoft/Apple owned cloud based services, extend into services which run on my homelab environment instead.
As a simple example: A local model which can hook into a MCP service making it understand calendars and appointments which hooks into my own locally hosted Radicale CalDAV service, enabling me to quickly make a appointment through text (or possibly even STT later). I'm curious how much I can get something like Thunderbird to disappear.
A somewhat advanced example: Another thing which recently popped up as a idea, I'm quite excited about and I hope will work out is that I can teach a model the concept of a "package repository", a "package manager" and "systems", which (hopefully) means I can install, uninstall, update and track the status of software packages on my Linux systems without using the terminal or shelling into a system myself.
Summarized: I think some things Big Tech wants are pretty neat, but I would like something without heavy involvement of Big Tech (and/or subscription based computing) instead.