Will there be a time where we will write to a USB stick for the last time?
As you are doing it you never realize
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axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 13 hours ago
dotslashme@infosec.pub 15 hours ago
Actually about to reverse course on this one. As a data hoarder, bluray as cold storage seem like a sensible solution.
MTK@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
How? It is pretty sensitive. Why not tapes?
dotslashme@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
Well, most media is sensitive to one thing or another. I chose discs mostly because of convenience and cost per byte. I also believe I can control temperature and make copies often enough to last.
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
I thought about this a lot after the last time I saw this post. I am almost positive it was a The Prodigy mix that I made for myself. My little sister got a car with a CD drive in it as her first car and she asked for my old CDs and that’s the latest one I can recall making.
Crazy to think that 10+ years after I made that CD now my little sister is listening to it haha. And I was already listening to many cd mixes my mom and father had given to me over the years. That CD case probably has illegally downloaded music burned to CDs from over 25 years ago in it. Not to mention several actual CDs that are probably almost 50 years old at this point. My father loved the classics and after he ripped his entire library to cram into his digital magic box he let a lot of the physical CDs go to his son’s. at least 1 or two ended up on that cd case of mine.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
I don’t think that’s true. I have a 20+ year old iBook G3 that I keep around to tinker with Mac OS 7-9. The usb slots either don’t work, or at least don’t support newer usb drives, so it’s only a matter of time before I hop over to the Macintosh Garden and start burning discs again.
yistdaj@pawb.social 1 day ago
Huh, I just got blank CDs yesterday.
LorIps@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’m wasting untold amounts of optical media on trying to install a FOSS OS on an iMac G5. PPC64be is a pain in the ass nowadays
WraithGear@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Yep, it was the 10th time i was attempting to burn a clients files to DVD’s. I swore i was never going through that again. Then after i got a successful burn prompt, i went to hit ok and a fatal error had occured, and lo and behold the burn failed after verification. Joined the Navy within the week.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Every person you meet will eventually be seen for the last time. It’s odd how casual those departures can be.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Amusingly, I think I remember some of my last ones, though maybe not my absolute final one.
For the most part, I’d already moved away from CDs, but I got a job driving vans which didn’t have Bluetooth or an aux port. I ended up burning a few mp3 CDs für that job some time in late 2014.
Fun fact: one of those CDs contained brony music which I accidentally left in my van one night. I came into work the next day to hear it blaring on the warehouse speakers until I heard someone saying “what is this?” before changing the CD.
The drivers were all talking about it during lunch and I sat there quietly, amused by them trying to figure it out 😂
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I’m assuming you’ve moved on, but if not, there are FM transmitters for when you want music or navigation instructions from your phone to play over the vehicle’s speakers. Bluetooth or 3.5mm jack ones are both available.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh god yeah you’re bringing back some memories there 😂
So I already knew they were a thing, but annoyingly on some of the vans there was only a single 12v socket, and we had to use that sticker to plug in the navigation system/manifest.
So CDs were the easier choice until I got hold of one of those 12v splitters.
The one I had was far bulkier than the one shown.
A lot of the time it didn’t matter anyway because people don’t take care of the vans so a lot of the guys played their shit in the loading bays at full volume and would regularly blow the speakers out.
Sometimes I was going out with a Bluetooth speaker jammed between the dash and windscreen.
I had 100 solutions, it seems. The CDs were just one of them 😂
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
hey ^^ time to listen to some brony music :) i totally forgot that exists 😂👍
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you haven’t kept up, I’d recommend some of the “Ponies at Dawn” albums
Recollections was one of my favourites. Some absolute bangers on there
poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/recollections
Ignite starts off insanely strong as well
ftbd@feddit.org 19 hours ago
I don’t even have a device with an optical reader
imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day ago
This is Lemmy bruh. We still be burning discs on the reg.
Seriously though, I still like to listen to CDs in my car. Something about making that perfect 20 song banger mixtape just hits different. And then slotting old CDs and having no idea what songs are on there but usually being pleasantly surprised. Spotify/Bluetooth is too easy and casual, I tend to pay more attention and enjoy the music more when listening to CDs.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Man you ain’t lying about having random songs on them. I’m always equally impressed and disturbed by some of the CDs I’ve made in the past.
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
My co-worker’s car was broken into while he was moving house. His cd collection was in the car and the only cd left was the one in the cd player. So we listened to who’s next by the who all summer. Nothing quite like coming back from a rave at 6 in the morning with baba O’Riley blasting. The soundtrack to a perfect wasted summer.
oppy1984@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I have a visor CD holder with a few burnt copies of albums I always enjoy. Yes my car has Bluetooth and yes I use it, but sometimes it’s just easier to pop in a CD. It’s also more legal, a couple of years ago a coworker got ticketed for distracted driving because the cop saw him switching albums on his phone while driving. I doubt you’ll get pulled over for swapping CDs.
SassyRamen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I shit my pants once when I was 32, I did not know that wouldn’t be the last time.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It might not be.
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 day ago
In the North of England that’s called ‘shittin yer keks’.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?
calebjasik@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
yeah, but i’m planning on that day being the future. gotta save all my music offline 💖
FanciestPants@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.
thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hah I knew it exactly. 2019 when my university required to hand in all (raw) data used for creating my thesis on a CD or DVD. I had to buy a new one of these things where you get like 50 disks stacked on a stick (to use 3 of them) and had to borrow my mom’s old laptop, because it was the only one available with a dvd drive. I knew it then and I’ve been right since then: This was the last time.
stoly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think for me it was before I moved counties and my disc was full so I put all my torrents on a couple DVDs. Early 2009.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah - CD’s are great.
Everyone should be burning Parenti lectures and leaving them in public spaces. Very fun past time.
dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 1 day ago
I’ve written to a CD last year.
kevin2107@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Holy hell
plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I never knew that “road mix 17” was going to be the final release
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Until you find a reason to do it again. I burned a cd like last year because my car has a cd player.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I might just go and burn one more when I get home, just for the heck of it ;)
zxqwas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was thinking the same but I realized I am not sure I have a computer with a CD drive or a mother board that supports my old IDE drive
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have though, just need to install a rom burning SW again :D
dbtng@eviltoast.org 1 day ago
I recently tried. Didn’t work. Don’t know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted.
CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.
Spoken like a person who doesn’t own a floppy drive. 😞
Tap for spoiler
I’m just making a silly joke, of course, but I think there’s enough temporal overlap between floppy drives and USB ports that it’s accurate.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 day ago
Remember when BIOSes weren’t able to boot from CD-ROM so you needed a boot disk? Or was that just a windows problem?
dbtng@eviltoast.org 1 day ago
I owned Win95 on floppy. That was a hell of an install. 11 disks?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I haven’t burned my last one yet
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
For the last several years of me burning discs, they were all Ubuntu live dvds. I believe the last one was Ubuntu 18.04.
dbtng@eviltoast.org 1 day ago
Yup. I tossed out a whole sleeve of them things a couple years ago. New burn every time. Then I saved them … because … um … nothing.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I still have a BD-RE drive in my current setup. It almost never sees any use, but it’s definitely nice to have the option should I ever require it.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Same. I plan to burn some backup blu rays to free up space in the next year or so
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m pretty sure I’m also done with USB sticks.
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
So how do you install operating systems?
hOrni@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The operating system is already there when I buy the device.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I still use them in my car. Car has no cd or cassette player. And can’t afford to use cellular data to stream music from my phone
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
I don’t have a serial data cable (or ports for one on my PC) so USB stick is the only way to get my .stl files to my 3D printer to actually print stuff.
ftbd@feddit.org 19 hours ago
What printer do you have? If it has a (micro) USB port, you can most likely set up OctoPi on a raspberry pi, connect the Pi to your printer and print over the network.
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok, I don’t have a 3d printer. Yet.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
lol I didn’t
SoyaSuki@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
And one day, a few years later, I threw away my opened package of unwritten raw CDs and DVDs.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Still feels like a waste. But my spool was just taking up space.
I regret it, it was dozens of disks, and yet haven’t needed a CD since.
Although I do still use DVDs on occasion.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I still remember doing the same thing
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CD, yes…
DVD? Man, I still keep recovery disks for repair jobs. Hiren’s is still a thing.
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
Well yeah but I also ate for the last time until I’ll eat again this evening, right?
You can simply turn the last time into the not-last time at any point in the future
Case@lemmynsfw.com 16 hours ago
You say that, but eventually CDs will stop being produced.
Floppies still exist, but they are more and more difficult to find in the wild.