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I wish. I have to burn some media every few months for work. Sometimes CDs, sometimes dual layer DVDs.
It was today.
I still have my old DVD burner, which I only plan to upgrade to a BD drive once I get the money for it.
Getting rid of physical media because cloud drives, steam, netflix, etc. is like amputating your legs because cars and motorized wheelchairs.
Never lol.
laughs in gen z
(I’ve ripped cds, but never burned one)
I’m also gen z, and the last CD I burned was last year a debian install CD for a computer that couldn’t boot off of USB
I still do burn CDs but it is much less common. Mostly just for retro computers which use CD-ROM. I burn DVDs slightly more often since you can fit larger ISOs on them and they’re more durable (seriously, CDs are so fragile it isn’t even funny, their data layer is completely unprotected, just a thin film on the top).
Okay boomer
And when was the last time you dubbed a compact cassette? (For me it was 2 hours ago)
Black metal or folk punk?
Yes.
Whenever I get my cassette player to work again. I have to replace a gear, and I do have the replacement gear, but it’s turning out to be harder than expected. Luckily the manufacturer put a diagram of all bits and bobs with numbers and how they fit together in the device manual. It’s like a very complicated puzzle
I think it’s pretty cool that they have user and service manuals. So you can actually fix it by yourself when you have the parts and tools to do so.
Yeah exactly. But those must’ve been hard times for the shareholders. How can those poor hardworking shareholders ever earn money if you don’t buy new e-waste every 2 years?
3D printing is also awesome. For this respective model there were already 3D models available for the gear that broke in mine. I don’t have a printer, but I was still easily able to order a 3D printed replacement gear
Why do you use cassettes?
They feel nice in the hand and sound good. Also it’s fun mixing them, designing jcards and labels.
Seeing as I have lots of computers that won’t boot from usb, no
Old ones I presume? I have a habit of hoarding old computers too. What do you have?
Rough list of the interesting ones:
- IBM RS/6000 Model 250
- Compaq AlphaServer DS10
- 3x Apple iBook G3
- 2x IBM ThinkPad A31
- Panasonic ToughBook CF-28
- And then like a billion more less memorable ones
Nice. I’ve got my old desktop from 2009 I just threw EndeviorOS on last night
We’re becoming a rare breed.
I’ll continue to burn Sega Saturn games to CDs for some years still. Especially considering how much it costs to get some of them now.
I keep my old SATA DVD-RW but I haven’t had it installed in anything for years. I finally recycled my USB floppy drive. I’d kept it to potentially help people with data recovery but decided that floppy data anyone might have lying around had already degraded.
It doesn’t have to be the last time.
That was… two days ago.
I still burn CDs for my dad all the time, (I also have a few of them for myself too) since our cars have CD players in them, and while I usually play Music through the Aux it’s good to have CDs for when there’s spotty connection and nothing good on the Radio.
Also still use CDs for my car! CDs just feel like the right solution to local music, sometimes I just want to keep my phone in my pocket (or not on me at all) and drive. USB drives feel too easy to lose
There’s like a 95% one of the last CDs I burned was a The Prodigy album. I was super into them the last time I had a computer with a burner installed and I can’t think of anything else I would have burned during that time. It’s possible it was a cracked version of office or something.
