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We used to print out a few dozen photos a year. Now my wife takes that many photos at lunch time- then backed up to 3 locations forever.
by rr808 5y ago
We used to print out a few dozen photos a year. Now my wife takes that many photos at lunch time- then backed up to 3 locations forever.
- IshKebab 5y agoIt's not really forever. Realistically it might be 30 years. And do you really think the ecological cost of storing 5 MB of data is more than manufacturing and developing a single photo? One hard disk can store a million photos. Will she ever get even close to 100k photos?
- oarsinsync 5y ago>> We used to print out a few dozen photos a year. Now my wife takes that many photos at lunch time > Will she ever get even close to 100k photos? Assuming a dozen photos per meal, 2 meals a day, 360 days a year... thats 8640 pictures per year. In 10 years, she'll be at 86k pictures of food. For what it's worth, my own photo album has an average of ~7000 photos per year for the last 10 years (and that includes 2020 and 2021 being abnormal years), and I don't use social media. In less than 5 years, I'll cross 100k photos. Actually thats combined photos and videos. The videos take up more space. They used to be 1080p videos. They're now all 4k.
- lanstin 5y agoMy Dropbox has 1.1M files in in, many of which are photos (and then stupid stuff like thumbnails of the same photos from iPhoto in 2008). However, my impression when they said all the compute and all the laptops is 2%, I'm like, "not so bad." We get a ton of value out of that stuff - music and books and movies and phones and pictures and even adult ed and stuff my parents did with physical stuff and don't have to travel so much because can video and stuff. If they can get right to repair and full-lifecycle closed loops going once (maybe?) the tech settles down a bit more, it'll be a net gain I'm pretty sure.