This is honestly a pretty ignorant take on america and its culture. A lot of our culture comes directly from the places people immigrated from, mixed with the culture that already existed. After a few generations it amalgamates into the broader culture. Its constantly evolving (whether people want it to or not). Its quite the opposite of only knowing culture fron our own country. In fact, a statement like that makes no sense when you factor in how peoole got here in the first place

I’m a software engineer working with cloud hosting by profession, so I really dont mind training wheels for my home needs. In fact it is preferred because I want to spend the smallest amount of time possible just solving my problem (easily sharing photos between ios and Android without relying icloud or google). I do enough hard stuff at work haha.

14TB is perfect. I could probably get away with a four bay setup with a RAID config for redundancy.

A little off topic, but whats the estimates starting cost to using Synology? Ive been looking for a good syncing solution for media between my partner and I. Any good resources anyone has to share for getting started?