All photos will be last to time. Same as everything.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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There's a few dye sublimation printers that are around $100 or so that print really nice 4x6s. It's definitely not the most economical way to print, but some run on just a battery and are great to take with to family events. Cheaper and better quality than polaroids, and they just print over bluetooth/wifi.
That's a good thing.
So?
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.
You should store you precious life moment with a little help.
Use digikam (free/open source) to get one's files in order. And i you are willing to go NAS route, use freenas + immich (free/open source)
Nah.
It's true that things will be lost in this way, but it's also try that parents are producing many gigabytes of photos and video of their children, most of which they're storing in the cloud.
My parent's have several photos of me under the age of 15. I have probably a thousand of my three year old twins.
I also have lots of videos of the mundane... how they eat breakfast, how they say whatever thing, using their favorite spoon.
It would be really weird to see video's of my own interactions with my parents at this age. I think it would be a profound experience. It's hard to see them in that way.
And yet, since the total number of pictures taken has become a lot higher in the digital (and especially smartphone) era, we will have way more surviving photographic documentation of everything that's happened since then.
If people in 1986 took (say) 10 analog photos per month on average and 9 of them survive, that's a lot less than if people in 2026 took 100 analog photos per month and 30 of them survive.