Unpopular opinion (I've been downvoted for this in the past): you don't have to put all your photos and videos on a computer server (either self hosted or from

Unpopular opinion (I've been downvoted for this in the past): you don't have to put all your photos and videos on a computer server (either self hosted or from Google/Apple/Meta/Microsoft). I leave new pictures on my iPhone without any iCloud backups, make a backup to my PC hard disk once a month, and make a backup to BD-R once a year (and then remove everything older than a year from my phone). I don't feel I'm missing out an anything by not putting everything on some server. Even in the past when I did use automatic cloud backups, I don't recall ever really needing to have access to some years old picture immediately. I'm not a digi-luditte, I do occasionally send irrelevant pics to family and friends in Whatsapp (which I do assume can be eavesdropped at any moment, so I don't send truly private stuff). But I don't think having every personal photo and video I ever took accessible within a second improves my life in a significant way.