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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month 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 fรผr 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 ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh god yeah you're bringing back some memories there ๐Ÿ˜‚

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 socket 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 ๐Ÿ˜‚

I taught one of my friends to drive. She now has her first car - a 15 year old Mini - so now she has my old FM transmitter ๐Ÿฅฐ

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

hey ^^ time to listen to some brony music :) i totally forgot that exists ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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

https://poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/recollections

Ignite starts off insanely strong as well

https://poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/ignite

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Brony music is legit! Heck even just the songs by Daniel Ingram are great stuff. I always liked Aurelleah and Jyc Row.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month 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.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I shit my pants once when I was 32, I did not know that wouldn't be the last time.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It might not be.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I never knew that "road mix 17" was going to be the final release

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I've written to a CD last year.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Huh, I just got blank CDs yesterday.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I might just go and burn one more when I get home, just for the heck of it ;)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Nah - CDโ€™s are great.

Everyone should be burning Parenti lectures and leaving them in public spaces. Very fun past time.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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. ๐Ÿ˜ž

Tap for spoilerI'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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The first computer I ever used was a Macintosh 128k. It didn't have an OS. The OS was on a floppy that you had to have in to start the system. My dad bought two external floppy drives so that he could run more complex programs on the thing.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I haven't burned my last one yet

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks 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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Until you find a reason to do it again. I burned a cd like last year because my car has a cd player.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Same. I plan to burn some backup blu rays to free up space in the next year or so

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Will there be a time where we will write to a USB stick for the last time?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Actually about to reverse course on this one. As a data hoarder, bluray as cold storage seem like a sensible solution.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

How? It is pretty sensitive to weather and decay. Why not tapes?

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

I don't even have a device with an optical reader

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And one day, a few years later, I threw away my opened package of unwritten raw CDs and DVDs.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I still remember doing the same thing

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I've kept my Blu-ray burner in service from the past few rebuilds, probably had it about a decade or so

Though I'm not sure I've actually ever burned anything with itโ€”used it to back up some old DVDs recently though

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

CD, yes...

DVD? Man, I still keep recovery disks for repair jobs. Hiren's is still a thing.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's easy for me to remember. I made a cute soundtrack for an anniversary. I miss that relationship sometimes, but I try to convince myself leaving helped me grow.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

lol I didn't

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Sabine was talking about possible petabyte discs being on the horizon. Those might be worth burning some day in the future.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_yxsJuOMY&pp=ygUNcGV0YWJ5dGUgZGlzYw%3D%3D

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I did or i atleast believe that then was the last time, you never know.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

ive never burned a CD (I do use them for music though)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Since I have to deal with an older system that has not yet been replaced (and isn't slated to be for a variety of reasons), combined with some security requirements that the clients IT team had put into place...

I still have blank CDs and have burned them relatively recently. Probably will be doing so again in about 2 months....

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