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You can't get a perfect digital copy of a printed out photo. You're subjecting yourself to generational losses for no good reason. If you're a fan of paper, y
by axiolite 1y ago
You can't get a perfect digital copy of a printed out photo. You're subjecting yourself to generational losses for no good reason.
If you're a fan of paper, you could base64 encode the digital photo and print that out onto paper with a small font, or store the digital data in several QR codes. You can include a small preview too. But a couple hard drives or microSD cards will hold many millions of times as many photos in less physical space.
- pastage 1y agoDoing paper backups is hard I could not store much data on paper when I last tried with QR codes. You need to to multiple QR codes since they are only 2KB each. There are some threads about it on HN, but I have never seen anyone do megabytes per paper https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29792556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29792556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31149427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31149427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24669425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24669425 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=paper+backup https://hn.algolia.com/?q=paper+backup Cuneiform tables do it in clay.
- axiolite 1y agoPaperBack claims 0.5MB per page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883531 It's likely not possible to do much better. I never said that was the most practical method.