I Stopped Paying Google and Built My Own Cloud (opens in new tab)

How I replaced Google Photos, Google Drive, and Google Home with a self-hosted Raspberry Pi 5 setup - and what the full technical stack looks like. There's a quiet moment every tech-literate person eventually hits. You open your cloud storage dashboard, see the number creeping up, and think: I'm paying a subscription fee, every month, forever, just to store my own photos and files on someone else's computer. That was me, but with a bit of added weight. It's not just my data I'm responsible fo...