[DocTomoe]

There is always a way to make things more complicated and/or expensive. That is not the goal of the exercise, though.

[monsieurbanana]

What I listed is not optional, it's the bare minimum if you want to have a widely-adopted self-hosted solution for someone's digital life.

If you're going to recommend your non-tech family store all their photos in raspberry with a single hard drive with no backup, that's kind of evil.