[marsokod]

> It can not be a matter of "data always available online", because you could solve this with a virtual online drive that can be browsed and/or synced with your work computer.

That's exactly my reason for using nextcloud and other apps like that though.

I want to be able to browse my own files from my phone or any other safe device, and that's what nextcloud offers. It is literally a "virtual online drive that can be browsed and/or synced" with any device, much like bewcloud.

I personally use nextcloud because I am using its other features as well, and there is no denying it suffers from being a jack of all trades, master of none, but having your data in the cloud, being able to access you admin paperwork, share data with your relatives or even random people, or manage a calendar amongst several people is a fairly frequent use case.

[rglullis]

> I want to be able to browse my own files from my phone or any other safe device

How much data do you have? Why not simply replicate this data between your devices?

My "office documents" are ~4.8GB, according to the file browser. I simply just have it on Syncthing and copy everything to phone/laptop/workstation/NAS.

[marsokod]

With personal photos, PDFs and everything, that's 3-4TB. With pure documents, that's still around 100-200GB.

The thing is, I don't know what I will need at a given time so I cannot just have a subset synced. Like when some friends I am visiting abroad wanted to have pictures of my house, or of an event we did with our children, now I can browse through them live.