I still burn DVDs. Ever since USB storage was deemed "not secure", they are the easiest way to get data into and out of sensitive networks.
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High school kid: Burned a what?
I still see blank CDs and DVDs for sale sometimes. Makes me wonder who is out there using them.
On work we accumulate a wealth of pesonal notes, forms, links, articles etc. We are strictly forbidden to use USB-Sticks, but the DVD-Burner are still working...
My last DVD was a Knoppix though, just for the fun of it.
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People who still own a PS1/PS2 having a blast on their jailbroken consoles
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I burned a few last week
DBAN baby!
I still use them (in M-DISC blu-ray form) for encrypted backups.
While reading this subject line kids these days will be wondering 'why we are lighting metallic disks on fire'.
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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Never burned a CD in my life. And now I never will, just to spite you
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Start doing it again! Owning your media is cool and good, actually
I still burn blu ray M-discs
A relative lately wanted me to burn an Audio CD on their Windows 10 PC. I had little to no idea how to do it, since last time I did that was on Windows XP.
It's easy, you just have to sign up for Microsoft's CD burning app for $6.99/month. Make sure to have your credit card, social security number, and birth certificate handy when you setup your account. You just have to watch a short advertisement before burning each CD.
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I was just thinking "I need to burn some music CDs for when I travel", just in case.
I went on a car trip earlier this year, but forgot my bluetooth to aux adapter. I tried to buy one while I was on the road, but places were sold out, didn't carry them, or they only sold them via online orders.
As luck would have it, I still had some old CDs I'd burned 20ish years ago sitting in my glove compartment! I honestly did not expect them to work because they'd likely spent at least the last decade+ in that glove compartment, enduring extremes of heat and cold. They were scratched to hell and back and I had always heard that they degrade and become unreadable after a certain amount of time, even under ideal storage conditions.
Luckily for me, though, they mostly worked. I think there were a couple of songs on one disc that skipped a bunch, and everything else played fine. I rediscovered a few great songs from my youth that I'd not heard in so long that I'd practically forgotten about them.
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.
Youll have all your coding projects, but nothing to read them with.
They do degrade naturally, so I hope you are redoing this every decade or so
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My gen Z kids burn CDs - it's a "retro" thing for them. Literally burnt one last week.