BanjoBass

New york has air rights. Many existing buildings cannot build taller, thus redevelopment removes leasable space instead of modernizing and/or bifurcating it.

Yup. iCloud is just my most recent photos. Once my 200gb starts getting full, I go back and delete photos and videos year by year until i'm down to the last year or two. My entire library is still backed up to a NAS which has offsite backup as well as google photos.

I just checked my phone, There were 3 verizon networks in there I don't recognize. I'm using a regular SIM.

Seems like a smart way to do it, but that relies on having another always-on system standing as the server. OP's solution only requires the one device, the rPi unless something needs to be changed.

Pretty sure they're "required" in Germany and cannot be disabled by the user.

You travel to other countries, you abide by their laws. This is no different.