[tomek_ycomb]

I told my [family member] this for years she should edit her digital photos. She said, no, my 40k pictures are a retirement project. Then I said <<you'll be overwhelmed by that many photos>> and actually I was wrong.

AI photo stuff massively improved, and all her bad photos were very easy to sort in Picasa and bring down to a reasonable 5k or so photos to put into albums over few years of retirement.

[serallak]

Of course Picasa is one of Google abandoned projects...

[sethammons]

I'm still sore about Picasa. while it was great to use, it lost a few years of photos that I hadn't backed up outside the service. Figured it was online and safe.

[teddyh]

> Figured it was online and safe.

That’s a contradiction in terms.

[samplatt]

Always been frustrated that this abstraction became so commonplace. It's not even like there's ever been a time in history where 'online' meant 'safe and reliable'. Marketing always wins out, I guess.

[a_gnostic]

The cloud is just someone else's computer.