It used to be you could find a box of photos or keepsakes that you inherited to look back on how things were or when you were a kid. Now, most of that is stored on phones, and most parents probably don’t think to share or save them in a way to be passed down in the future.
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A drop in the bucket compared to those that were never taken at all in the last 4,000 years of civilization before the picture boxes came to be.
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I mean, most people don’t ever look back at the photos they take. Phones have made photos almost valueless.
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Yeah all the phone pictures I’ve got backed up I’ve hardly every looked up again, I think the fact that film cameras limited the number of pictures you can take and you had to develop them means those picture books automatically became more valuable
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Very few really care about all of the data you’re producing over your lifetime. How many times have you taken serious efforts to go to the city archives, or read through inherited documents and photos, etc…?? Are you doing anything with them or just sitting on them?? Flicked through it once? Fun.
Now with all of the bulk data we produce what are future gens gonna do with it? Prolly dump it into an AI to summarize and puke out into some trite little video memoir… That’s it, your life reduced to a twenty second collage for social clout.
If you set out to fight entropy, you’re not gonna win.
1 monthPretty much. I’m a data hoarder, to a degree. My homebuilt, Ship of Theseus NAS is about 15 years old, and it contains data going back over 20. I save everything I produce.
I figure that one day, this data of mine will be fed into a system for future use, in the vein of how they construct people in the Star Trek Holodeck. So, I feel it’s up to me to curate that data, and be sure it’s accurate and reflects who I am.
These days it’s obvious that it will eventually be turned into training data for an LLM, but then at least, my data will have some structure and personality to it. Maybe someday a joke will be cracked for someone that came from a pattern I established. Probably not, but one can dream.
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Fair enough, I like your way of thinking. I keep a lot of data too, even though I don’t have the same hope as you do… Oh well, not like it can hurt anything.
- MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish1 month
For a long time, when I’d replace a computer the new one’s hard drive would be so much bigger than the old one I would just copy the old computer’s entire drive into a folder of the new one - I think I did this at least four times before I decided that I almost never looked back into those older folders and found anything valuable.
I looked back 15 years like that once and found: clip art, and banner printing software for a printer I threw out 14 years earlier.
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when my wife died, i was 32. the kids were 7, 8, and 10. there are tons of physical pics. but looking back at pics from almost 20 years ago now… sure i am gonna send each kid a usb key but… if i lost them i still have my memories. i wish however i took more video. i miss her voice. i am sure the kids do too.
but if i lost the media, frankly whatever. i already feel the loss daily anyway so … 🤷♀️
- fdnomad@programming.devEnglish1 month
How many pictures are lost because nobody ever looks at any of the 1000000 pictures they’ve taken?
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Around a year ago, my dad went on a fishing trip with a friend, and his kayak flipped over due to how turbulent the conditions were, and due to that he lost his phone (which was in a waterproof pouch) in the ocean, which had likely multiple thousand family photos that weren’t backed up at all. The friend he was with decided to go diving in that area to try find it, but never did despite how calm the water had been after that incident.
Now he backs his photos up from his new phone to Google drive, however I’m not sure whether he’s actually checked if it’s syncing or not.
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Mike Birbiglia (comedian if you haven’t heard of him) said his now wife’s phone fell out of her pocket and into a river from a bridge the first time they kissed. She’s a poet and she wrote a poem about how she still gets prank calls from fish
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
Not sure thats a bad thing. The older I get the more I want to go out a ghost.
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 month
don’t worry, google and facebook still has
your photostheir properties you and your friends have uploaded
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As someone who had to go through my mother’s and grandmother’s boxes of photo albums after they died, I can tell you that what people should be doing now is backing up select photos AND adding a full description in the files metadata. The vast majority of the photos in my mother’s and grandmother’s albums meant nothing to me because the context and history of those photos died with them.
Aside from adding metadata for those you leave behind, you should make it a personal habit to go through you own old photos you have backed up. Those photos true value is not as a legacy but as means to remember as you get older. Life is long (hopefully). The amount of life you forget is staggering when you remember it.
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Fwiw I’ve found digikam to be a very nice tool to help with editing and writing metadata directly to photos.
It’s Foss and available for all OSs. Mainly helps because you can point it to a directory and highlight many photos and tag the same person, etc etc. It’ll keep a list of tags to add as well. Unreal for the price of free but recommend donating of course.
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This here. Another thing to do is if you are taking video of family moments, narrate in the background what’s been going on for the past few days or a week. It adds additional context that is invaluable and would most likely be lost to even the person filming.
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Probably less than the moments that are lost in time before the invention of the digital camera.
- MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish1 month
Those chemical photos are going to mostly fade into nothing within a few hundred years.
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Bit rot happens to digital copies. It’s slower than what happens to physical copies, but over long enough time can also lead to data loss.
- MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish1 month
Digital loss definitely happens, but with a tiny bit of care, it can be absolutely prevented.
- Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.caEnglish1 month
Given that the first 35 years of our lives, my husband and I accumulated photos that fit into about 20 albums and I can find photos from any time or event with ease. In the next 25 years we have maybe 100x as many and I can never locate the ones I’m looking because there are so F-ing many. I hope most of them get permanently lost! Plus, while I can get our kids to look as some of the ones in albums, I can never get them to look through the endless scroll of the ones online, even if I limit it one trip or event when there might only be a few hundred photos.
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 month
Plus, while I can get our kids to look as some of the ones in albums, I can never get them to look through the endless scroll of the ones online, even if I limit it one trip or event when there might only be a few hundred photos.
there’s certainly a different feeling to flipping through a photo album and scrolling on a phone
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I’ve thought about getting my photos transferred to archival microfilm before, but backups on a usb hard drive, my own personal server, and a cloud service should do for now XD
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I am a mom and don’t like having a million pictures. My mom gave me some and it feels oppressive to have to hold on to them, honestly. One year my kids helped me by organizing the ones taken in their lifetime into bags by year. I used to take a roll of pictures, get them developed, but then only buy one or two, and was never a prolific photographer yet somehow ended up with hundreds of pictures I am not good at organizing or preserving.
I don’t care if the ones I have are lost. There is plenty enough documentation for people to know how things were.
