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.
RIP obsolete tech
Submitted 3 months ago by CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al to memes@sopuli.xyz
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neonred@lemmy.world 3 months ago
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What’s burning a cd?
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thanks grandpa🙏
mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Fuck the irony of a child calling themselves the grammar police.
The internet is a lie and I take no one seriously.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Bro, I’m an adult male
cmhe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Mdisks are a viable offline long term backup solution, and cheaper to set started with than tape drives.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I doubt it. Although, I imagine I may have recorded over my last tape.
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 3 months 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.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I was hoping for it tho.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I burned a few last week
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Cheap difraction gratings though, indispensable
applemao@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
tweeks@feddit.nl 3 months ago
It depends, I believe actual tape keeps data usable way longer than CDs.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I mean, most likely any pirated ZX Spectrum software on old audio cassettes will work.
applemao@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s so cool. I do a lot with audio tape (mostly 1/4" 7.5ips and 15ips), but never data tape.
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m gonna burn a bunch of music to cd this week just because I can. Might even archive some movies.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’m baffled at how many people here still burn cds…
pyre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
i sure was fucking hoping it was though
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
Shanedino@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There are plenty of people who never did that at all.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
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RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I literally have to do this for work so unless I lose this job it’s gonna be another decade
normalexit@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m not dead yet and have a Blu-ray burner and some blanks.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I recently got a USB CD drive/burner. But I don’t have blank CDs lol
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
High school kid: Burned a what?
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I still burn blu ray M-discs
Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
DickFiasco@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Just don’t use the free version…
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ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
entwine413@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You could cut them into throwing stars
indigoviolet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I’ve still got some CDs and a burner. I’m gonna go burn one just to spite this.
CabbageRelish@midwest.social 3 months ago
Occasionally break out the burner, it’s just very rare. Plus these days it’s a portable little usb drive.
LMurch@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
That’s sad but true, man. Miss you “Car Rock VI”.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months 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.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 months ago
but did you know you can use the 2nd controller to control the ducks?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Not until the recent post!
homura1650@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 months 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.
dustyData@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nothing is permanent, everything is transient. Enthropy comes for us all.
Spider89@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s true.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
So does all storage media. The difference is just how long it takes.
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Never burned a CD in my life. And now I never will, just to spite you
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Zoomer
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 3 months 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.
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 3 months ago
My gen Z kids burn CDs - it’s a “retro” thing for them. Literally burnt one last week.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I remember the day I burned my last CD. The fire department paid me a visit.
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 months ago
Haha thanks dad