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.
As you are doing it you never realize
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WraithGear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Every person you meet will eventually be seen for the last time. It’s odd how casual those departures can be.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 10 months 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.
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
Will there be a time where we will write to a USB stick for the last time?
dotslashme@infosec.pub 10 months 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 10 months ago
How? It is pretty sensitive. Why not tapes?
dotslashme@infosec.pub 10 months 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.
calebjasik@infosec.pub 10 months ago
yeah, but i’m planning on that day being the future. gotta save all my music offline 💖
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 10 months 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 10 months 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.
ftbd@feddit.org 10 months ago
I don’t even have a device with an optical reader
yistdaj@pawb.social 10 months ago
Huh, I just got blank CDs yesterday.
LorIps@lemmy.world 10 months 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
hOrni@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m pretty sure I’m also done with USB sticks.
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
So how do you install operating systems?
hOrni@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The operating system is already there when I buy the device.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Ok, I don’t have a 3d printer. Yet.
FanciestPants@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.
thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
lol I didn’t
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nah - CD’s are great.
Everyone should be burning Parenti lectures and leaving them in public spaces. Very fun past time.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Until you find a reason to do it again. I burned a cd like last year because my car has a cd player.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 10 months ago
It probably contained Linux
If I had to guess? Ubuntu Studio 14.04
samus12345@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t know when it was specifically, but I know it was to make a music CD for my old car that could play MP3s off of CDs. 15 years ago, maybe?
idunnololz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Let me just burn this last CD and then recycle this computer
Me when I burned my last cd
SassyRamen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I shit my pants once when I was 32, I did not know that wouldn’t be the last time.
rmuk@feddit.uk 10 months ago
In the North of England that’s called ‘shittin yer keks’.
samus12345@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It might not be.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
CD, yes…
DVD? Man, I still keep recovery disks for repair jobs. Hiren’s is still a thing.
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I didn’t really ever burn any CDs myself (though I have a few burnt ones). But just end of last year I ripped a CD
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months 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…
imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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.
dbtng@eviltoast.org 10 months 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.dbtng@eviltoast.org 10 months ago
I owned Win95 on floppy. That was a hell of an install. 11 disks?
grue@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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?
Kalon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sabine was talking about possible petabyte discs being on the horizon. Those might be worth burning some day in the future.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I haven’t burned my last one yet
dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I’ve written to a CD last year.
kevin2107@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Holy hell
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 10 months 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.