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I thought this way until I had kids.
Do paper photo books of the best pics, now. The risk of losing all your pictures in 30 years is probably like 50%. The digital photo generations gonna have a void of childhood pictures when they get old.
$20, a half hour of your time, and a Walgreens coupon will give you a hard copy backup of a large stack of photos not much larger than a hard drive that can live in a drawer or shelf for years without worrying about capacitors leaking or any of the other rot that mostly immortal electronics catastrophically suffer.
An annual “print-a-thon” is a good way to capture those things that still matter after a year onto a more robust, albeit less flexible, medium.