[stevenicr]

I burn pics to cds and hand them over in person. It's nice to also be giving them a backup imho.

I used to use firefox send but that's gone now I think.

I have used a self hosted buddypress - upload and only share with "friends" and with that user account the only "friends" are one or two people.

I've considered trying to deploy a buddypress with added plugins to harden it and offer it as a SaaS hosting for family circles and friend circles just to share stuff like private pics and such.. I still think about it. Pretty I know how it can work and people will use it and some will pay for it.

[jobigoud]

Do you mean USB drives? Who has CD drives anymore?

[stevenicr]

I try to only use usb drives if they are brand new, and have never been inserted into another system.

I actually do mean burn CDs / DVDs.. I know they are not the best backup medium.. but they are better than trusting 'the cloud' imho.

You are right that more and more systems are coming without cd / dvd drives... I have a couple of cd readers (that I think are also burners) that attach via USB - I happily lend or give one away and get another, they are like $25... to use for importing and accessing hard media backups which can be priceless, with bonus privacy.