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  • alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cheap difraction gratings though, indispensable

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  • chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still burn blu ray M-discs

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A relative lately wanted me to burn an Audio CD on their Windows 10 PC. I had little to no idea how to do it, since last time I did that was on Windows XP.

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    • DickFiasco@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s easy, you just have to sign up for Microsoft’s CD burning app for $6.99/month. Make sure to have your credit card, social security number, and birth certificate handy when you setup your account. You just have to watch a short advertisement before burning each CD.

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      • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just don’t use the free version…

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Download ImgBurn or CD Burner XP

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nero or bust

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still have an external burner and a stack of CDs, and multiple players including my old ass car. I also listen to tapes, vinyl, and regularly use my NES and VCR. Reject modernity, embrace tradition lmao.

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    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      but did you know you can use the 2nd controller to control the ducks?

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not until the recent post!

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  • homura1650@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still burn DVDs. Ever since USB storage was deemed “not secure”, they are the easiest way to get data into and out of sensitive networks.

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    • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I learned not too long ago that SSDs lose data if they don’t get keep getting power… Not sure how true that is, but if true, pretty awful.

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      • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nothing is permanent, everything is transient. Enthropy comes for us all.

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      • Spider89@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s true.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So does all storage media. The difference is just how long it takes.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    High school kid: Burned a what?

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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a whole cake of 100 blank DVDs unopened from 10 years ago. Been looking for a reason for them. Maybe make a post apocalyptic art piece.

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    • entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You could cut them into throwing stars

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  • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never burned a CD in my life. And now I never will, just to spite you

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    • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Zoomer

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  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was just thinking “I need to burn some music CDs for when I travel”, just in case.

    I went on a car trip earlier this year, but forgot my bluetooth to aux adapter. I tried to buy one while I was on the road, but places were sold out, didn’t carry them, or they only sold them via online orders.

    As luck would have it, I still had some old CDs I’d burned 20ish years ago sitting in my glove compartment! I honestly did not expect them to work because they’d likely spent at least the last decade+ in that glove compartment, enduring extremes of heat and cold. They were scratched to hell and back and I had always heard that they degrade and become unreadable after a certain amount of time, even under ideal storage conditions.

    Luckily for me, though, they mostly worked. I think there were a couple of songs on one disc that skipped a bunch, and everything else played fine. I rediscovered a few great songs from my youth that I’d not heard in so long that I’d practically forgotten about them.

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  • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My gen Z kids burn CDs - it’s a “retro” thing for them. Literally burnt one last week.

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I burned an Active Shooter video for work last week. I got a lot of spare discs. Might be a good way to store copies of everything the fascists are deleting.

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  • Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I knew. I had been meaning to buy an aftermarket car stereo with USB and MP3 support for a long time. I was on my last blank CD, and had to decide then whether I would buy more CDs, or whether I would buy a new stereo that didn’t need CDs.

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  • VeryVito@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I burned two DVDs yesterday. First time in almost a decade, but it made me wonder why I don’t do it more often. I still have 98 blank DVDs on a spool purchased year ago.

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    • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Be aware certain batches of blanks are more prone to bit rot (or more accurately degradation of the metal layer) than others - could be worth googling your blanks before using them for anything important

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  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Burnt one recently for a profile backup on a terminated user.

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  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    DBAN baby!

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  • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still rip blurays, so reading them is go

    Every now and then I have a reason to archive something at work, its probably like once a year tho

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  • kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    While reading this subject line kids these days will be wondering ‘why we are lighting metallic disks on fire’.

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  • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still occasionally burn CDs, whenever I need new music in the car that doesn’t require my phone. Last time was last year.

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  • Adam24@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Obsolete tech needs to be preserved.

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  • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Start doing it again! Actually owning your media is cool and good, actually

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It is, but CDs are much too small.

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      • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Too small? How so?

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  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know, I wish I could remember what it was, there’s something a little sad about it being the last one and me not even remembering what was on it. I think I would have burned what will likely be my last ever DVD quite a lot more recently, probably about 2018 or 2019, but CD, that’s a way’s back.

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Neil Cicierega - 300MB^[YT]^

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  • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I rip all my vinyls to optical for backup purposes, so the last one I did was a few weeks ago.

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