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[–] 138 points 1 year ago (53 children)
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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    unneccessarily rude!

    They might be just genX.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    ... and you didn't know it was the last time

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    naw, we have a cd juke box at my work. pretty sure ill be burning them for the foreseeable future.

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    [–] 66 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I still burn CDs. This whole streaming thing won't last. Also, my back hurts...

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The real meta is to have a hard drive full of flac files and use tailscale to stream them wherever you are from your computer at home

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Burning one today just because of this post.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    I burn Blu-rays once in a while. They work for backup.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I still have a big stack of blank CDs and DVDs. I burned a DVD late last year. I don't think I've hit my last time yet. But maybe.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Last time I saw this template it was "Someday your parent will carry you in their arm for the last time and neither of you will know it was the last time."

    😭

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I just burned one today, it was the easiest way to transfer a game to a Windows 95 notebook. 🫠

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I still burn them sometimes for the car.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I burned an audio CD just a few weeks ago. My car doesn't have Bluetooth audio, so I've kept going old school all along. I bought a few stacks of empty CD-R's and DVD-R's when the stores wanted to get rid of them.

    I have zero streaming subscriptions and no intention of getting any. The number of films, games and music albums I've bought from flea markets and second hand stores during the past 10 years has to be in the hundreds. And not one has cost more than 3$.

    Even my kids haven't complained about the lack of streaming, they seem perfectly happy using my physical media library.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Jokes on you, I still burn my acquired digital media to BluRay discs

    Disk rot is like 25 years while an SSD still doesn't have that kind of shelf life

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Unless I die tomorrow, you're wrong.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    If we include DVDs I probably put a Linux distro iso on one in 2010 or 2011. CDs? Maybe a CD I made for a road trip on 2009 or 2010.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I do the opposite now. I buy discs cheap from bin stores, rip them onto my desktop and then upload to my home library for more affordable 'streaming'.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I thought that I burned my last cd a long time ago until my uni required me to hand in my thesis on a cd.

    Buying a 4-pack of CDs (with cases) was more expensive than buying a 128gb sd card.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    We should go back to doing it, physical media is where it's at.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Joke's on you. I have multiple spindles of blank optical media I use regularly. I am not putting a ODE on my Saturn unless I absolutely have to.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

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

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

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

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