RIP obsolete tech

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• MTK@lemmy.world ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  You can go burn a CD and know that it would be the last time. Not only is it not yet dead, it is still pretty widely used.

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• Lorindol@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I burned an audio CD just a few weeks ago. My car doesn’t have Bluetooth audio, so I’ve kept going old school all along. I bought a few stacks of empty CD-R’s and DVD-R’s when the stores wanted to get rid of them.

  I have zero streaming subscriptions and no intention of getting any. The number of films, games and music albums I’ve bought from flea markets and second hand stores during the past 10 years has to be in the hundreds. And not one has cost more than 3$.

  Even my kids haven’t complained about the lack of streaming, they seem perfectly happy using my physical media library.

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• Kookie215@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We should go back to doing it, physical media is where it’s at.

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  • bier@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Physical media yes, CDs or DVDs no. Most discs I burned are probably unreadable by now. I remember my favorite artist explaining how he probably had to stop making music because it just wasn’t financially viable. So I decided to buy all his albums (I had all the albums in mp3 format for years). Its about 10 years later, all the CDs are lost or destroyed (most in my car). I still have a NAS with the original mp3s I downloaded 20 years ago.

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    • Merva@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I burned 100s of music cds as well about 20 years ago, and stored them in those books with slots. They weren’t stored in a car, but still about a quart of them doesn’t play anymore, and I am sure it won’t be long before none of them will. All my store bought cds of the same age or older still works fine though.

      Homeburning is not a good physical media alternative.

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• dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i burned a cd 2 weeks ago.

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  • Jojowski@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok, boomer

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    • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      unneccessarily rude!

      They might be just genX.

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think burning CDs much much of a boomer activity.

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    • nuko147@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No boomers are the ones reading the CDs not writing them. Their kids are writting them.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    … and you didn’t know it was the last time

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    • nao@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Every time is the last one, at least for a while

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    • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      naw, we have a cd juke box at my work. pretty sure ill be burning them for the foreseeable future.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cd…or DVD?

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    • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      cd, thats why i said cd.

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• cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mdisks are a viable offline long term backup solution, and cheaper to set started with than tape drives.

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• Rin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I burnt about 100 disks last year as an offsite, nuclear resistant backup… though, if nuclear war broke out, that would be the least of my worries

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Even if nuclear war breaks out, at least the bank will still have records of how much we still owe them :)

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i sure was fucking hoping it was though

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• twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I have not yet begun to peak. I’m gonna make a driving CD eventually

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• Mist101@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still burn CDs. This whole streaming thing won’t last. Also, my back hurts…

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The real meta is to have a hard drive full of flac files and use tailscale to stream them wherever you are from your computer at home

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    • Mist101@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s the dream. Currently debating what to do with a spare laptop and “make it a server” sounds ideal.

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I need to learn how to do this.

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    • dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Plexamp is also good for this

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    • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah well… Can you set the time on a VCR?

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• lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just burned one today, it was the easiest way to transfer a game to a Windows 95 notebook. 🫠

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  • demunted@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Friggin Keener

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    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why didn’t you just zip drive it?

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• wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Burning one today just because of this post.

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  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    lightscribe for old time’s sake?

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    • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image— still use one of these from 2011.

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    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There where points in time where I had a lightscribe disk, and points in time where I had a lightscribe drive. But never both at the same time. I feel like this says something, but I dunno what.

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    • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I went out of my way to buy a LightScribe drive for my 2008 build (C2D E8400, 4GB DDR2 800, AMD HD 4870, Vista Ultimate + Linspire), and I never even used the feature. Burned less than a dozen discs total as well.

      I feel like optical media died around that same time. Netflix introduced its streaming service, torrents entered the mainstream, and MP3 players replaced CD players. Didn’t even bother with an optical drive in my 2014 build (i5-4670K, 16GB DDR3 1866, GTX 780, Win8.1 + Ubuntu). Current build doesn’t have one, either (7700X, 32GB DDR5 6000, 4090, Win11 + Arch).

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jokes on you, I still burn my acquired digital media to BluRay discs

  Disk rot is like 25 years while an SSD still doesn’t have that kind of shelf life

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Doesn’t it make more sense use harddisks?

    I mean, the ultimate long terms storage medium seems to be tape, but that stuff is very expensive, but outside that harddisks seem to have the best balance of accessibility and shelf life.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right post there chief

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  • deadbeef@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Who are these mad men who are dumping stuff to SSDs and then sitting them on a shelf? Can’t get my mind around it.

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• doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still have a big stack of blank CDs and DVDs. I burned a DVD late last year. I don’t think I’ve hit my last time yet. But maybe.

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  • kevin2107@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No way crazyyyy this generalization didn’t apply to SOMEONE on the internet. no wayyyyyy

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You know 4chan is back online, right?

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I burn Blu-rays once in a while. They work for backup.

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  • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They don’t last very long. About 5-10 years at most, and that’s if you bought special archival burnable DVDs. If you depend on them for backups, you should check the integrity annually (always include a checksum like SHA256 with any backup archive).

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have CDs that I burned in the 90s that still work fine. I’m assuming the blu-rays I burn now will probably last as long, which is decades longer than I need them to.

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  • Pnut@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …you need so much specific equipment. You do realise that the day blue ray was announced we collectively gave up on physical data storage in the form of polished mineral disks right?

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    • droans@midwest.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So much equipment.

      First you have to buy the DVD writer and then you also have to get yourself blank DVDs.

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We definitely did not gave up on discs. They may no longer be mass consumer oriented. But bluray for backup, archiving and data transfer are still a thing. Nothing beats the bandwidth of a plane filled with hard drives. The media itself is not relevant, magnetic tape is still available and used to this day. The first time I held more than a terabyte in my hand was in a data tape cartridge. Consumer hard drives hadn’t gotten there yet. Even today, new optical media is being researched. There are fascinating breakthroughs on laser engraved crystal storage.

      Anyways, I just wanted to remember that wasteful mass consumption media is not representative of humanity as a whole.

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just use a USB Blu-ray burner.

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Polished mineral? Like a silicon wafer? um??

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  • misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I use them all the time. If you leave any data behind that even theoretically exists in 50 years, readable or not, optical media is your only option. Or Ardrive if you want to spend 1000x the amount and make it public. In case you plan on leaving any videos around for your grandchildren.

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    NOOOOO! You must use cheap AliExpress SSDs, because something something 1980’s tech something something technological advancements must be pushed at all cost!

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Tape or bust (if you can afford it)

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  • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve never had a Blu-ray player and at this point I expect I never will.

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• Octagon9561@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unless I die tomorrow, you’re wrong.

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• CyberTailor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still store offsite backups on CD and DVD disks

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• CabbageRelish@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Occasionally break out the burner, it’s just very rare. Plus these days it’s a portable little usb drive.

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• sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It was a CD rw and didn’t actually work. The data wasn’t there.

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• PeterisBacon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I do the opposite now. I buy discs cheap from bin stores, rip them onto my desktop and then upload to my home library for more affordable ‘streaming’.

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Last time I saw this template it was “Someday your parent will carry you in their arm for the last time and neither of you will know it was the last time.”

  😭

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My grandfather made it a point to lift everyone until he couldn’t get then off the ground anymore.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If we include DVDs I probably put a Linux distro iso on one in 2010 or 2011. CDs? Maybe a CD I made for a road trip on 2009 or 2010.

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• LMurch@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s sad but true, man. Miss you “Car Rock VI”.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I doubt it. Although, I imagine I may have recorded over my last tape.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still burn them sometimes for the car.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The car you downloaded? Because YOU would totally download a car?

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I downloaded a dealership, and i don’t know where to put it.

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think that was the last CD I burned too, before I just started auxing in my phone with Spotify.

    Based on my phone and car-stereo timelines, I guess that means my last burn was probably in 2009 at the latest.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I loved DVD-RAM. I could just mount them in Linux and copy backups on it. They are even reusable, like you could just delete a super old backup and put a new one on it. I think I stopped using them, because of capacity.

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That sounds like slow-ass RAM.

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• RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I literally have to do this for work so unless I lose this job it’s gonna be another decade

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• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  June 13th, 2022. 7:13pm. If that’s the last one I burn, I will at least know when. It was Windows XP Media Center 2005, for my fleamarket Dell Demension E510. Well, more accurately, an E310 with a E510 motherboard.

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I didn’t know it was the last time, and I don’t know when exactly it was, but I do know what it was that I burnt:

  A Linux install CD

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  • peregrin5@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Haha same.

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    • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For a while, burning CDs was my way of keeping backup of stuff. I might still have a bunch of them stored somewhere and if I still had any way to read them I would be picking them up right now to see which ones still worked and if there was anything interesting in there.

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• CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I miss lightscribe

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  • AprilShowers@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still have a lightscribe drive in my main PC. No lightscribe discs though.

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to use the work lightscribe to burn my band’s cds.

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  • anguo@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was just about to comment that the last time I did it, it was because I had some lightscribe disks that I wanted to try, but already had no use for anything on a CD.

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wasn’t that the label making thing? I think I had a laptop once that had that as a feature but it was literally never used

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• normalexit@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not dead yet and have a Blu-ray burner and some blanks.

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