"I used to be with it"
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Nikls94@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Help me out here
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nero Burning Rom was a popular program for burning CDs
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Look grandpa, I found this box full of save icons in your old stuff”
Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And omg soo much retro porn which is now banned in the us
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
CDeez Nutz Burnin’
ch00f@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You like tapes and CDs?
How 'bout I tape my dick to your head so you can CDs nuts!?
funkajunk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s a cream for that
PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And a weed strain
SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
CDs nuts!
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Got em.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I burned a CD just a few days ago.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I just punched a card yesterday.
beneeney@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I inscribed a clay tablet just this morning
ignotum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why? What did the card ever do to deserve that?
transfluxus@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Zomg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This CD is not for your Stereo, it’s for your Computer!
littletranspunk@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Wait until they hear we ripped them after burning them
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Never. The audio equivalent of “Needs More JPEG”
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Funny to think that the same number of drives would fit into maybe 1/4 of this height if made in the slim form factor.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.
All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I’m amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Linux has built-in in dvd burning and ripping tools that work amazingly. Been ripping all my ps1 and ps2 games.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
FYI: unless you have a very specific model of CD drive, your PS1 backups aren’t perfect copies. They will work but the copy protection might not have been read properly. It’s not important in 99.9% of use cases. If you need a perfect copy, download NoIntro dumps.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Low effort joke
When I was your age, we used to own our music. It worked offline and we could copy it to other devices.
Tangent
Why aren’t Normies speaking up about everything needing internet? Street navigation, music, videos, reading, games, etc. Are all things that would work brilliantly normally, no server required. Why does no one realise, that if the server disappears, so does in effect their personal property? If it is tethered to a server, it’s broken, because the server will disappear, the question is only when.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
why aren’t normies speaking up
They dont care. Speaking as a normie-convert, so long as it works right now idgaf. When it doesn’t work tomorrow I’ll cry about it then and demand to speak to the manager, but right now? Summer will last forever.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Normies dont understand the abstraction layer between all their data being stored in offline data banks and being mined for illegal ai use and surveillance.
Ill keep my physical media thanks. Never was on the cloud bandwagon, I wont be on the ai bandwagon.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Why aren’t Normies speaking up
I’m the most bland person you’ll ever meet and I kept all my CDs and DVDs. I would never buy something only as digital/cloud format that I couldn’t burn on a disc. It gave me anxiety from the beginning. I have multiple external storages with the same copies of photos and I still print the most precious ones out. I’ll have music and memories if the internet ever breaks down, I just need a power generator.
I also absolutely don’t see physical copies of books, music, or movies, as clutter. Booklets in CDs are to die for, and I think it makes for great room decor. If I burn a CD I usually make some collage artwork as a cover to accompany the disc.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I told my dad I want cassette tapes to come back. He laughed and said how he remembered how crystal clear CDs were when he listened to them for the first time. What can I say dad, I like a little wow/flutter in my music.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not having lived through it is fine; being unable to google a couple of words is just virtue signalling how lazy you are, especially considering this is probably coming from someone who’s glued to their phone all day.
stratoscaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bruh it’s clearly meant to be a joke lmao
Calm down gramps
gerowen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m a school bus driver and I’m not even joking when I say I blew my kids’ minds with a burned CD the other day. My daughter asked me to make one of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One kid asked how I got it on CD and when I showed him a burned disc complete with sharpie label his response was just, “Wait you can do that?!”
Made me feel old as hell.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Cds are digital data storage discs that are etched in microscopic 1’s and 0’s in a microscopic spiral with a laser, and then later read back with lasers. You can only write them once but you can read them a million times. So grammatically, in the same way you “nuke” food in a microwave, you “burn” a cd in a cd drive that is capable of writing cds.
Maybe someday we can have cheap (cheaper than other storage media per gb), durable (last at least my lifetime), terabyte, fast read optical media. I would love to permanently store lots of stuff that doesn’t ever need to be rewritten.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Well you etch pits you don’t actually actual numbers. Also it’s not a spiral, it’s not a record player it’s not been read by physical stylist so you don’t need a guide, they’re just concentric circles.
You start the disc off as a zero, then whenever you need to transition to a one you etch a pit, then it will continue to read that as one until you etch another pit and flip back to zero. So the sequence 0111001 would be etched as _...
Discs can also be overwritten, and used multiple times, you just wipe the entire top layer off and start again on the layer below, only really cheap CDs were single use.
As for the future there are already experimental crystal storage solutions (made out of artificial diamond so it would be essentially indestructible) which really are single use, but they can store hundreds of petabytes of data so you would probably just treat them as if they were rewritable. There’s also DNA storage but the equipment to save and read the data is nowhere near commercially viable yet.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Ngl, i didn’t know it was concentric circles. I always thought it was a spiral like a vinyl record.
Also the encode is pretty neat, I didn’t know that.
I DID know about RWs being rewritable, and you could sort of brute force some supposedly single write discs.
To be clear, I wrote that to be as simple as possible like if a person read it who really didn’t have any idea, they could have a relatively quick understanding in plain terms. Guess even I learned something today!
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The pits just represent numbers. A 1-bit memory cell typically stores high or low voltage. The numbers 0 and 1 only exist as a platonic ideal, and there are many ways to represent them in the real world.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s a Bluray media called MDisc that’s supposed to be more durable. It says 1000 years so I give it 100 based on the fact that the 100 year rated Verbatim AZZO DVD+R’s that I burned and verified to have low PIO errors had errors after 10 years stored in black cases in my temperature controlled basement.
People claim their burned DVD’s are all fine but I’ve never heard a post back when I asked if they’ve actually verified all the bits. “It reads when I put it in.” doesn’t mean there isn’t data corruption.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I recently learned of MDisc (there’s a CD and DVD version, too, iirc) and decided to get a burner and convert my old data CDs.
While I haven’t verified every single bit, I did check that the files copied off of it were still functional and didn’t see any issues. Also didn’t get any errors. I was surprised because I’ve had some of them for over 20 years now and didn’t do more than put them in CD binders to protect them (during the days when I didn’t even consider the longevity of the media, other then obvious things like scratches.
Only disc I wasn’t able to get the data from was a packet CD, which was a special format that facilitated treating the disc more like diskettes, where you could read or write at will via the filesystem rather than writing the disc as a special package from the start (or having multiple sessions if there’s still room on the disc after one such write). I was able to find references to the tech, though not if it was a standard or just a name a few different companies used for different implementations, but I wasn’t able to find Linux drivers that could do anything other than rip the ISO and a few strings or tell me it can’t find anything. Though it’s possible that corruption is really what happened here because I’d expect RW CDs to last a shorter time than the write once ones.
Though I suppose I could try it on my old windows machine and see if drivers are more readily available there.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I think there are some optical media like that. the discs are cheap but the readers are made of mithril.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
M-disc, I presume?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc - This one floundered and died before coming to market
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_optical_data_storage - A bunch of different solutions, and it looks like they were all being developed independently circa 2008, and then went nowhere
My guess is that there’s not much use case beyond archival backups. That’s not going to get the economies of scale that CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays have. It’d be priced for the corporate market, but they already have perfectly good archival backup solutions. You’d also have to prove that it can be durable for at least a few decades, but even for commercial duplication, previous optical formats are just OK at best on longevity.
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You had to monitor the computer, if any program started or did anything weird, it could cause the entrie disk to be destroyed
dellish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well of course the first step is to tie an onion to your belt. You can’t burn CDs if you’re not stylish.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A CD is a Certificate of Deposit. You see, back in the 1900s, our parents had this thing called DISPOSABLE INCOME thought to be a myth, but trust me, it was real. People had so much money they wouldn’t starve to death if they didn’t work overtime.
Anyway, they needed a place to put it, so get this: they could deposit it into an account, and it would actually grow! Then they’d get a Certificate of Deposit to verify they really gave the bank the money because—guess what—it wasn’t a scam! They got the money back! I know, right? Amazing.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe it’s finally time to throw out the half finished pack of blank cds away. They’ve been sitting on my bookshelf for 20 years
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I had a pack like that, tried to use them last year and every one of them failed to burn. Must have hit their shelf life somewhere along the way
moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
See, I had a 6 cd rack for burning but I never learned why it was called burning. Every time I asked in irc, they said something to the effect of “head to the doctor, you should get that looked at.” Any kind lemming care to elucidate me?
ShenanigansMcGee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sure! It’s called “burning a CD” because you are literally burning it. You are using a laser to burn or etch a texture into the CD that can be read by the lasers in other CD drives.
Anyone more knowledgeable than me is more than welcome to add details and correct whatever I got wrong. I know the basic concept, but I’m no CD engineer.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s called “burning” because a laser is used to etch information into the disc. It burns tiny “pits” into the polycarbonate material.
ShenanigansMcGee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Huh, you learn something new everyday. Thanks!
Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
My understanding was that it had to do with the laser in the CD/DVD/bluray drive “burning” the data onto the disc.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There was a downloader called lime wire, it was a simpler time.
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Back in the day here in Finland we ordered bulk of cd/dvd r and rw’s from Åland Islands (autonomous region of Finland). They were cheaper thanks to taxes loophole. I still had 20 pcs of dvd’s from those days and burned them all to save some space on my pc.
ignotum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s what nazis and christians burned before books were invented
daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I still burn CD’s.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Light one up for the homies, will ya
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I grew up with cassette tapes. I know what the connection is between a cassette and a biro…
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It would take less time to just search “burning cds” than even posting this.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Lol, consumerism.
Still burning cds and making tapes here. Nothing changed. You got sucked into consumer capitalism
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Have you ever heard of something called a hard drive?
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Are you manufacturing your own CDs and tapes, or are you buying them as a consumer?
Good job not being a consumer I guess.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
True, but im also reusing a shit ton of stuff and not buying into the “i need new all the time I need the latest thing” I dont even hace a set of wireless headphones because they are A: stupid, and B: my 15 year old headphones work perfectly. My car is 13 years old and i do most repairs. Never had a new car.
Krudler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Most people thought you had to snap them in half to destroy the data, and that the data was on the “down side”. No no my friend, the data is the shiny label part and you can wreck the disc by just flaking some off with a pointy metal thing.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Did anyone ever have a Lightscribe burner? I always wanted one. It seemed pretty dope being able to etch a label onto the disc with the same device that wrote data to it.
rothaine@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes. It was neat, but actually sucked because the contrast was so low. Switched back to Sharpie after a few
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Good ol alcohol 120%
Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“We used to mark them ‘summer mix’ and put them in a soft case full of them in the car, which was the style at the time”
skooma_king@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
You would change your disc at a red light, as tradition tells
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Pah, I had a CD-changer for 6 discs!
GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I did it at 80 for style points