I use a burner phone whenever I leave the country to avoid having deeply personal information in it if I’d ever be asked for a password. Because I don’t want any of my files to be backed up on some government server, I also don’t take any pictures even when there are moments I wish I could.
How easy is it to create your own personal server and forward pictures from your phone over to it? I plan to delete the local images afterward to avoid having them in case a border guard demands my burner phone’s password. Are there any guides that are easy enough to work with using a raspberry pi and a flash drive?
All our phones use Syncthing to keep the entire phone synced to home.
Sync jobs for photos runs on any data connection, and on battery - other jobs run while charging, or only on wifi.
Be sure to use Syncthing-Fork, it moves these sync options into each folder pair/job.
For the home server, get a mini PC - they’re tiny, sip power like Pi, and provide a lot more flexibility.