(post comment edit - if you put things inside < > as your entire post, Lemmy will eat it. Cool>

No doubt, it’s a chicken or egg problem.

I have the same dell form factor - 3060. Love it.

I have in the past, yes. Reputable hosts and cloud providers tend to take them seriously in my experience.

I used a self-hosted Nextcloud for a while. It was pretty close to a Google drive stand in. I believe it had similar browser playback for videos