i burned a cd 2 weeks ago.
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I still burn CDs. This whole streaming thing won't last. Also, my back hurts...
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
That's the dream. Currently debating what to do with a spare laptop and "make it a server" sounds ideal.
Burning one today just because of this post.
lightscribe for old time's sake?
I burn Blu-rays once in a while. They work for backup.
They don't last very long. About 5-10 years at most, and that's if you bought special archival burnable DVDs. If you depend on them for backups, you should check the integrity annually (always include a checksum like SHA256 with any backup archive).
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.
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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I just burned one today, it was the easiest way to transfer a game to a Windows 95 notebook. 🫠


I still burn them sometimes for the car.
The car you downloaded? Because YOU would totally download a car?
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.
I miss lightscribe
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
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.
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
Who are these mad men who are dumping stuff to SSDs and then sitting them on a shelf? Can't get my mind around it.
You should checkout the public library.
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.
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'.
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.
We should go back to doing it, physical media is where it's at.
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.
I still use them (in M-DISC blu-ray form) for encrypted backups.
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.
I microwaved a few from 2008 last month. They smell of cancer if you do that though.
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