True. But you can save photos and videos under self-healing filesystem like zfs. Is far more cheaper than a year of multiple premium subscriptions (google, netflix, spotify). And it’s not recurring monthly other than electricity bill…

This requires some command line to fully tame the beast(s)… sorry, the apps! that you’d be hosting. If you prefer an easy solution, for Nextcloud, specifically, I think you can try the managed instances (e.g. Hetzer offers ‘nx’ boxes). It’s better than paying premium fees to GAFAM imho every step counts ;)

Fair enough, I have learned to live with curl first, then execute. Or going through the trustworthiness of the repository author (e.g. number of stars, contributors, etc.) More or less the same safeguard I take for packages I install from Arch User Repositories. I’m curious, tho, How do you feel about “docker pull”? Containerization has limits…