Or you know, don’t? And just live your life.

Because it only matters at an aggregate level. The restaurant won’t change anything for one customer.

Just give them a thumbs up???

Depends how often it phones home?

Some devices are just dandy to only phone home once per day/week/month. Fully completely capable of operating independently except for MBA concerns.

My daughter’s toy was like this. The company went bankrupt. Servers went down. The device worked for 30 days then it never worked again.

I doubt you’d want to turn off the Internet for 30 days…

If you really want to self host but you aren’t interested in a lot of dirty work then you can get a Synology and use Synology photos, right next to Synology drive and everything else.

It “just works” and it handles all of the updates for me. Even includes secure enough secure access via quickconnect

That said it costs more than diy.