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  • lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That sounds like slow-ass RAM.

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  • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I miss lightscribe

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    • AprilShowers@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • anguo@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨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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  • LMurch@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Haha same.

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      • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨18⁩ ⁨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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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Shanedino@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are plenty of people who never did that at all.

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    • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      ✋

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  • CyberTailor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still store offsite backups on CD and DVD disks

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  • lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t burn CDs, I buy music on CDs (Best Of albums, etc.) and copy them to my computer. Cheaper than some of the online music stores.

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    • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You should checkout the public library.

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      • lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        For music CDs? I dunno bout that (see comment above). I do borrow books a lot, if that counts.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m curious. Why not just torrent?

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      • lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Tbh I don’t know. I torrented lots of stuff as a kid (including music on Soulseek), but now I feel like paying for stuff. I know, weird.

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  • RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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  • normalexit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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    • HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I’m about to drop a supermicro Xeon board plus an E3-1275 and 32G of ECC ram into the guts of this old Optiplex 790 mini tower I have. (i3 2100, so a generation newer, and a Xeon instead of an i3)

      I plan to eventually get a better case but for now this is fine. Right now it’s running Plex media server on FreeBSD on bare metal, but I’m planning to swap to proxmox once I get the new board installed.

      Unfortunately that won’t be for another week. While the board will be here today, it is a little more power hungry than the old system, and I’m already pushing the OEM 375W PSU with 5 drives (SATA SSD and 4 7200rpm SAS drives) so I also have a PSU coming. But that is not expected until middle of next week.

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  • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I did know. It was 2 years ago when me and my neighbour pranked our neighborhood grandma by burning shitty music and leaving the CD in the mail.

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  • Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was hoping for it tho.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I felt scammed for a split second recently because I bought a new laptop and it had no optical drives…

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    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the scam you bought was windows

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    • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I remember buying a laptop with a blue-ray drive. That was at least 10 years ago, and I never used it, other than holding Call of Duty (the OG) for half a year, then I put it back in its box, and that was the last time I held a CD as well (maybe a DVD? Potato / Tomato).

      Good riddance, as SSDs were up and coming, which sped up USB drives as well. (yes, yes… They still have a use, just not for me, at all).

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still see blank CDs and DVDs for sale sometimes. Makes me wonder who is out there using them.

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    • merci3@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People who still own a PS1/PS2 having a blast on their jailbroken consoles

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    • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      On work we accumulate a wealth of pesonal notes, forms, links, articles etc. We are strictly forbidden to use USB-Sticks, but the DVD-Burner are still working…

      My last DVD was a Knoppix though, just for the fun of it.

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      • addie@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We used to do that in industrial automation. If you make any changes to the PLC / HMI / SCADA software, burn a DVD with what you changed and leave it next to the rack. No danger of bringing in viruses on a USB stick (the whole system was air-gapped) and you’d still have a backup available.

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        ooh knoppix!, my first intro to linux

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    • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People keeping old ass industrial equipment alive. I had to buy some CD-Rs because it was the only way to get files off an ancient Win95 machine that had no network or USB ports. The machinery it interacts with costs a million dollars, so replacing it is no small thing.

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    • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I buy them, and floppy disks too.

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still use them (in blu-ray form) for encrypted backups.

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn, them discs are expensive.

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      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, but worth it for important backups since they take a long time to degrade!

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  • LumpyPancakes@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I microwaved a few from 2008 last month. They smell of cancer if you do that though.

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  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    CDs are too small, so yeah. DVDs on the other hand? Optical disks are the only practical media that is EMP-proof. After the apocalypse, I’ll still have all my coding projects, thank you very much.

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    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They do degrade naturally, so I hope you are redoing this every decade or so

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    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      CDs and DVDs are the same size? (/s)

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    • piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Youll have all your coding projects, but nothing to read them with.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I burned a few last week

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I recently got a USB CD drive/burner. But I don’t have blank CDs lol

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  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jokes on you, I’ve never burned a disc

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m going to go burn one for the last time just to subvert this meme.

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  • alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cheap difraction gratings though, indispensable

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  • chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still burn blu ray M-discs

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just don’t use the free version…

        “But I would walk five hun- THIS TRACK WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY MICROSOFT WINDOWS 11. NOW WITH AI CO-PILOT ASSISTANCE TO GET YOUR WORK DONE QUICKER THAN EVER BEFORE -dred miles, and I would walk five hundred more, just to be the man who NEED ANSWERS FAST? BING IS NOW BETTER THAN EVER WITH BUILT IN AI FUNCTIONALITY. TRY IT OUT TODAY walked a thousand miles to fall down at your door.”

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Download ImgBurn or CD Burner XP

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nero or bust

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨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 ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not until the recent post!

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  • homura1650@lemm.ee ⁨16⁩ ⁨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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨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 ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • Spider89@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s true.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    High school kid: Burned a what?

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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You could cut them into throwing stars

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