Was in the same situation as you a couple years back and turned my laptop into a Nextcloud server. Stuck a terabyte hard drive in there and now I have a terabyte of cloud storage for my phone, laptop, and desktop for the cost of a domain name. Nowadays, they might cost around $8/yr if you don’t care that it’s a string of numbers .ovh or .xyz or some other obscure domain name. Here’s a couple videos on how to get a Nextcloud server started with Ubuntu’s snap package which will work on Linux Mint:
Was in the same situation as you a couple years back and turned my laptop into a Nextcloud server. Stuck a terabyte hard drive in there and now I have a terabyte of cloud storage for my phone, laptop, and desktop for the cost of a domain name. Nowadays, they might cost around $8/yr if you don’t care that it’s a string of numbers .ovh or .xyz or some other obscure domain name. Here’s a couple videos on how to get a Nextcloud server started with Ubuntu’s snap package which will work on Linux Mint:
https://youtu.be/84gHe3WQmNQ
https://youtu.be/rUQAWvXrtPY?t=309