Google nagged me into this, along with every other enshittified cloud provider dealer. For about a year, my phone warned me that the account was nearly full, so I migrated the picture backups to a Nextcloud instance and freed the space, at which point the nagging switched to reminding me that backups were turned off. Gmail does the same and provides helpful "Upgrade" buttons here and there. I do not want to rent space for my own pictures for the rest of my life, and I certainly do not want Google looking at them either. I wanted a place to keep the family's files, an automatic backup for years of pictures that were living on phones and ageing PCs, and a machine that could download Linux ISOs around the clock without anyone noticing. I thought I wanted a NAS, so I built one. The finished build An Old Friend Let's be honest, it's been increasingly crazy to buy computers in the last few years, GPUs especially.…