I cull very aggressively for this reason. The gems can easily be lost in the hay stack. Yes, editing software can contain markers for faves, but our heirs aren't going to use that software. They're going to go straight to the image files, if that. Those of us who keep our photos bottled up (never exported and organized into operating system folders) in editors are essentially leaving nothing behind for family to enjoy.

Part of the tragedy here is that a paper check is the only way to pay a bill or send money that doesn't result in a charge for handling the money. Debit/credit cards result in large costs, typically around 3%. While we may not pay these charges directly with some vendors, we often do. These charges are now baked into the cost of most things.
Someone always pays...ultimately the consumer through higher prices. It's alarming to me how much the money handlers are skimming off of our economy. There must be a better (less costly) way.

Ain't that the truth, and sadly, it's the way of today's world. There are so few left. Some of more vivid childhood memories were my visits at about age 11 to the local camera store...a world of beautiful lenses, SLRs, medium format cameras, enlargers, processing chemicals...on my bicycle!

Your full frame Pentax is quite a handful. Perhaps a "bridge" camera (with a permanently attached lens would be a good choice for someone looking to reduce weight and bulk, the smaller sensor models in particular. The Lumix FZ300 or similar. They're inexpensive and look and handle much like the familiar (D)SLR cameras.

Yes, bridge cameras are a step back in terms of ultimate image quality compared to your , but can be quite good when properly used. People love to carry on about how great cell phone pics can be, but compared to the tiny sensor of a cell phone, the typical 1/2.3" sensor of a bridge camera is much larger.

Indeed. I often see the word misused to mean "tip", or simply a "good idea". Of course language is increasingly misused these days. It's deliberate...to baffle, and to destroy any remaining sense of reality.

They're lying, of course, about keeping records for only 60 days. But you're lucky to get anything back.

Congrats on cutting the cord! I did it years ago and have never regretted it.

What this photographer with two weeks experience shooting RAW doesn't understand, is that straight out of camera, a RAW image looks far worse than a JPEG of the same shot. She is likely seeing a JPEG preview of the RAW image in her editor. Some editors show RAW in an unvarnished truth...an unsharpened, low contrast, poorly saturated image that needs a lot of work. Others show the baked in JPEG that is processed in camera.

Every editor renders RAW files a bit differently. Some will display the already processed JPEG when opening a RAW file. Often a camera manufacturer's free software will do this. That sounds like what the photographer in question is seeing.

Password Safe at pwsafe.org

An open source program that has been around a very long time. Its database is physically kept by YOU, not by some company. So high profile data breaches like the ones suffered by LastPass are not possible.

Mirrorless

Saal Digital. Superb quality printing, binding, and fine software for putting your book together.

Countabout.com can do it...an online service similar to Quicken. About a year ago I signed up, $40 a year, and it did a fine job of accepting many years of Quicken (year 2000!) data. It works great and it can be occasionally exported to save as backup.

Many powered subwoofers can accept speaker level inputs, in addition to RCA. If your sub has speaker wire connections on the back, then you need only run a second pair of speaker wires from the amplifier to the sub.

Drool!

You've received solid advice here, that TIFF is a poor choice, particularly to save space. It does the opposite. chg-canon's workflow advice is correct, excepting his disregard for exporting.

If you fail to export your photos tp high quality jpegs, you haven't produced a usable (to most folks, especially your heirs) image. I see this attitude frequently here. Some will say that you can export certain images when the need arises, but we can't do so after we die! If we fail to export jpegs, and fully back them up, then our images will essentially be lost to our heirs after we're gone. Few of us have family members who have Lightroom chops and know what to do with thousands of raw files and a Lightroom catalog that locks up the collection to the typical person.

To analogize back to the days of film, failing to export to jpeg is akin to leaving behind binders full of negatives, but no prints. If you're the family documentarian who has built up a lifetime of family history with your photography, you'd better leave behind a library of well organized jpegs, or it will all be lost.

I much prefer a "dumb" TV that's used as a monitor connected to a desktop computer with a wireless keyboard/mouse combo. All the capabilities of a "smart" with much easier navigation, not to mention the full capabilities of a real computer.