The cheapest iPad does have big bezels but I find them useful to pick it up and hold it. I have the 32GB storage but yes, all my photos are in a private nextcloud and videos on a server with plex. Indeed, I don’t really see the shortcomings of apple’s ecosystem. I mainly use it to read news, Manga and watch movies and photos with the family. I don’t use Google’s cloud either though, even if my last two phones have been pixels and I asked for a pixel too for work.
It started with fruit names
Citron, nectarine, fraisedesbois, cassis, yuzu, abricot…
Then I got tired and call them by what they are
Changedetection, torrents, pihole, reverse, arr, ntfy, homeassistant, nuclias, minecraft, portainer… 😓