Google photos is easily the best product I cannot use - maybe TikTok is a close second. But sometimes it’s worth being that stubborn nerd and fighting for an alternative - even if the alternative is a distant second.
Yet. They will be forced to implement it.
Your photos and videos never touch our servers, _by design_.
I've worked for several large tech companies that hosted personal content, and seen how _utterly miserable_ it is to try to comply with the morass of local customs and laws.
I have no willingness or desire (or sufficient revenue) to spin up a safety and security team: PhotoStructure will always be entirely self-hosted.
Because PhotoStructure is always self-hosted, the onus falls on the user to comply with any local laws, just like any other software tool.
That said, my security.txt has a canary.
It's a Raspberry Pi that is ready to go 'out of the box' so you can install software immediately rather than fiddling with it.
I believe the PiBox OP linked is intended to be a PiBox that comes pre-installed with their software, Photostructure, so you can run your own instance easily without fiddling with a Raspberry Pi.
...and yet the page for that pibox product makes no mention of photostructure at all, let alone saying it's pre-installed. I'm just trying to point this out. The linked page would appear to be a complete non sequitur if not for the fact that I can see '/photostructure' in the URL.
PhotoStructure installs via a couple clicks in their app store, though--it's super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
(FWIW I'm the author of PhotoStructure)