9/10 people I saw in the store when I worked retail repairing phones never setup any sort of backup for their photos. Never plugged it into their computer never setup Google Photos or iCloud photo backup, nothing.

99% of those phones with issues were out of storage space because the phone was filled with pictures that existed nowhere else.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You'd be surprised at how many tech literate folks don't properly backup even if they know how important it is.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -3 points 1 month ago

The only photos I backup are my certificates.
Rest are non-essential and don't deserve more than one copy.

I recently lost quite a few videos, moving a partition to the left and it didn't matter enough for me to consider backing them up next time.

The source codes I make however, apart from having them on gitlab, I am also considering keeping a separate drive to store them.
With patches to other projects, stored as diffs instead of storing the whole project.