RIP obsolete tech

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Naw, not yet. I still burn a few a year. Amazing how entertaining it can be in a older car.

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• lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh I knew. It was the last CD in the spindle and I had no plans of buying any more.

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• Tin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was Armin Van Buuren’s Intense. Burned it for a road trip.

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• Mustakrakish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had to do it last year so my school would let me listen to music during tests. Had to be on a burned cd so they could review it for cheating. I’m just lucky I still put a disc-drive in my pc builds.

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was only a few years ago, when I ran off some Dreamcast games.

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• UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My bately consumed blank cd tower somewhere in my basement agrees.

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• twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jokes on you, I’ve never burned a disc

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• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  DBAN baby!

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• kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is, but CDs are much too small.

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    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Too small? How so?

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• Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• GaMEChld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sigh. I work in medical IT. They still burn shit. I’ve written procedures for USB, but alas…

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• HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Last week isn’t really that long ago. Going through my mom’s old things and found a PC she bought new back in 2013. A Dell Optiplex 790 with a dvdrw in it.

  I just happened to have a couple of blanks so I verified that it worked before pulling it out and using it as an external drive. Works that way as well on my much newer Ryzen 5800x build in a case with no 5.25" bays. (Or externally accessed 3.5s for that matter. No external bays of any sort other than some USB ports on the front.)

  My 2006 Honda also has a 6 disc changer and it sounds better than the Bluetooth adapter I connected to it. (It is wired to the back of the factory sound system, but Bluetooth audio just sounds flat to me, even on the best speakers)

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  • SkyJuice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Assuming your head unit is double-din, you could upgrade your radio that has an equalizer feature built in

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    • HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That won’t do anything about Bluetooth audio compression.

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• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Happened around 2010. Trust me I remember.

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• Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My last ISO was hirens boot CD. Shit like me test and whatnot

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• Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why is this written in the past tense?

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• MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• Rin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• CyberTailor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still store offsite backups on CD and DVD disks

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• gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Obsolete tech needs to be preserved.

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• jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Neil Cicierega - 300MB^[YT]^

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