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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al⁩ to ⁨memes@sopuli.xyz⁩

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  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember the day I burned my last CD. The fire department paid me a visit.

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    • CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Haha thanks dad

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  • neonred@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bullshit. Just last month I burned an audio CD as a gift for someone who enjoys listening in their car or on their player in the bathroom. Not everything needs to be always online streaming or has the ability to read SD cards or USB sticks.

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  • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What’s burning a cd?

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    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

      The act of ‘burning’ an optic disc was to write data onto a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray. It was called that because a laser would literally burn the information into the disc.

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      • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thanks grandpa🙏

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    • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fuck the irony of a child calling themselves the grammar police.

      The internet is a lie and I take no one seriously.

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      • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Bro, I’m an adult male

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  • cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I was hoping for it tho.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I burned a few last week

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  • alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cheap difraction gratings though, indispensable

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  • applemao@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I laugh when people think cds are old. They’re still the best form of digital physical media. Now I prefer analog media of course, but convenience and portability of digital is nice.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Compact Disc Digital Audio is difficult to improve upon in terms of quality. For day to day listening I’ll either use mp3 or FLAC but especially as the streaming services enshittify I’ll take my media on CD, thanks.

      Both of my cars have CD players, I probably ought to burn some discs to listen to. I often drive in silence these days.

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    • tweeks@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It depends, I believe actual tape keeps data usable way longer than CDs.

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      • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean, most likely any pirated ZX Spectrum software on old audio cassettes will work.

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      • applemao@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s so cool. I do a lot with audio tape (mostly 1/4" 7.5ips and 15ips), but never data tape.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m gonna burn a bunch of music to cd this week just because I can. Might even archive some movies.

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m baffled at how many people here still burn cds…

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i sure was fucking hoping it was though

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  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh, that sounds like a fun project! Going to post it to Lemmy when you’re done? I’m not familiar with proxmox. I see it’s based on Debian, is it basically an os specifically for running vm instances or something?

        I like the look of that generation Optiplex. My current main PC is a slightly upgraded XPS 8930, which is IMO one of the ugliest Dell cases. And the airflow has been a terrible challenge. But since it’s not a standard board, I can’t just pop it in a better case. And there’s no way im buying a new mobo for an LGA 1151. So, I’m stuck until I build something new.

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  • Shanedino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ✋

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  • RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    High school kid: Burned a what?

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  • chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I still burn blu ray M-discs

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Download ImgBurn or CD Burner XP

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Nero or bust

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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You could cut them into throwing stars

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  • indigoviolet@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve still got some CDs and a burner. I’m gonna go burn one just to spite this.

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  • CabbageRelish@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • LMurch@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Not until the recent post!

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  • homura1650@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • Spider89@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s true.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Zoomer

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  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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