All depends on your definition of 'few'.

My way, of course.

You want to verify that the card downloaded properly and you have backed up the data in your computer. Only then should you clean the cards.

So?

So change the entry requirement for your group to include "Guys from college" or even "Guys from life". Surely if your high school guys are mostly gone you have met new people over the years.

I had a desktop with 3 monitors at one time. Lightroom, Photoshop, and Other.

But then I moved and didn't have desk space for more than two.

But then the desktop died so I was working on the laptops (1 Win10, 1 MacBook).

But we're in the process of moving again to a larger space so I'm looking forward to 2 or 3 monitors (or maybe even more?). I have 2 extra monitors that my MacBook will handle.

My old film cameras had lenses that for the most part were f/3.5 or smaller. When I first started working with DSLRs I thought that the larger apertures would be significantly better when it came to my photography. Let in more light and I can get better shots (faster shutter speeds to combat shaky hands or moving subjects). So I got a 50mm f/1.4. And other lenses in my collection started at f/2.8.

Fast forward a few years and I had 10K images in my photopile. I found a utility that would take them all and show me the distribution of various parameters in the capture of those images. I found that the extrema of focal lengths prevailed, a lot of wide angle and a lot of telephoto and a moderate amount of midrange focal lengths. But when it came down to aperture, there was a peak in the f/5.6-8 range and very few shots at apertures less than f/3.5 (or more then f/16). I used f/1.4, but the number of keepers I got at that aperture was very small.

Today, the availability of high quality high ISO images makes it possible to get photos without resorting to large apertures. And the DOF is much larger with the smaller apertures. Postprocessing techniques make it possible to reduce the DOF on an image, but it's more difficult to increase DOF, so midrange apertures are preferable in my opinion. I'd rather have too large a DOF than too small.

and 8-track and punch cards and paper tape and wax cylinders and daguerrotypes and tile mosaics and cave paintings and.......................

Just think: even M-disks will be obsolete someday (less than 1000 years from now).

I had a cat that would catch small rodents. I never saw a live rodent in the house while he lasted. However, we frequently found remains.

Actually when I was 78 I got married again.

It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.

We try to get together as a group once a year or so.

That's good. You already have the problem broken up into manageable chunks. Just make a list of all the folders and cross them off as you work on one folder at a time.

We have a lunch group from the town I lived in 8 years ago. Retired Old Men Eating Out. There's a women's group, Just Us Ladies, Imbibing, Eating, and Talking.

The men's group meets every other week on zoom (since Covid, and since about 40% of the participants have moved away). We fix all the problems in the world, but two weeks later we have to do it all again.

Sounds harsh to me, but I see your point. The OP says his friend doesn't want to learn how to do it, but wants someone to do it for him.

However, the OP was able to convince his friend to switch to raw. Since the OP has some ability to change his friend's mind, I would suggest he take it as a challenge and try to get his friend to do some learning. It will involve some effort, but it need not be open ended.

I did event photography for some nonprofit organizations I belong to. There wasn't anyone else with my skills so I just jumped in and did it. It has been almost 20 years now and on occasion it turns out to be a chore (not always). I just get slower and slower to respond to needs so they don't push me too hard now. Having developed some health issues I will eventually not be here to fill the need so I have to reduce the load and wean them away from me. Consider that you could be in a similar situation with your friend. Try to convince him that it is always good to be in danger of learning something new, particularly a skill.

Alright. Photos AND it didn't happen.