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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I burned an Active Shooter video for work last week. I got a lot of spare discs. Might be a good way to store copies of everything the fascists are deleting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You know, I wish I could remember what it was, there's something a little sad about it being the last one and me not even remembering what was on it. I think I would have burned what will likely be my last ever DVD quite a lot more recently, probably about 2018 or 2019, but CD, that's a way's back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I knew. I had been meaning to buy an aftermarket car stereo with USB and MP3 support for a long time. I was on my last blank CD, and had to decide then whether I would buy more CDs, or whether I would buy a new stereo that didn't need CDs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I don't burn CDs, I buy music on pre-owned CDs (Best Of albums, etc.) and rip them to my computer. Cheaper than some of the online music stores where you download the music files.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I burned two DVDs yesterday. First time in almost a decade, but it made me wonder why I don’t do it more often. I still have 98 blank DVDs on a spool purchased years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't know it was the last time, and I don't know when exactly it was, but I do know what it was that I burnt:

A Linux install CD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Haha same. Honestly I think that was the only reason I ever burned CDs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a whole cake of 100 blank DVDs unopened from 10 years ago. Been looking for a reason for them. Maybe make a post apocalyptic art piece.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You could cut them into throwing stars. Or maybe take them to the nearest disc golf course.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'm going to go burn one for the last time just to subvert this meme.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Joke's on you. I have multiple spindles of blank optical media I use regularly. I am not putting a ODE on my Saturn unless I absolutely have to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Burnt one recently for a profile backup on a terminated user.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I was just about to comment that the last time I did it, it was because I had some lightscribe disks that I wanted to try, but already had no use for anything on a CD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Wasn't that the label making thing? I think I had a laptop once that had that as a feature but it was literally never used

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I still burn them sometimes for the car.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think that was the last CD I burned too, before I just started auxing in my phone with Spotify.

Based on my phone and car-stereo timelines, I guess that means my last burn was probably in 2009 at the latest.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The car you downloaded? Because YOU would totally download a car?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Cheap difraction gratings though, indispensable

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I microwaved a few from 2008 last month. They smell of cancer if you do that though.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still burn CDs. This whole streaming thing won't last. Also, my back hurts...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The real meta is to have a hard drive full of flac files and use tailscale to stream them wherever you are from your computer at home

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's the dream. Currently debating what to do with a spare laptop and "make it a server" sounds ideal.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I need to learn how to do this.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 week ago (4 children)

i burned a cd 2 weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

... and you didn't know it was the last time

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

naw, we have a cd juke box at my work. pretty sure ill be burning them for the foreseeable future.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Still in denial, I see /hj

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

/hj? Did you just give him a handjob?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, it means "half joking" /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Every time is the last one, at least for a while

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I don’t think burning CDs was much of a boomer activity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

CD players were first sold in 1982, when Boomers (if the baby boom started 1945) were hitting their 40s and established in every industry. I think they were actually the perfect demographic to be able to afford a CD player when it first came out.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

First affordable CD burner was from 1995. 50 year olds tend to not adopt new technology, it's a millennial thing.

https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/consumer-cd-r-drive-priced-below-1000/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As someone who worked sales in that time period, yes, it was the younger crowd (Gen X) that adapted much better to burning CDs. A lot of the baby boomers had difficulty with understanding certain key concepts and details. ... And instructions to be honest...

As for the "Boomer" commenter above: the military and government in the USA still burns to CD for a variety of reasons (no, I won't go into them). So if someone is military, a government employee, or even just a contractor, there is a chance that at some point they will need to burn a CD, regardless of age.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Really? Cause in my time in the army I never once saw any kind of military information being saved to cd. Not once. Never. Even in the early 2000s that was just never a thing. Ever.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

In Germany MRI and CT images are regularly handed to patients on CDs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Germany is also technologically 30 years behind the rest of the world...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Indeed, but I actually like this system: There are no breachable servers between the doctor and the patient, at least a few years ago everyone had a CD drive at home (I know that’s changing), and handing out a disk is way cheaper than a flash drive.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah but burning CDs yourself wasn't a thing until much later.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The phrase just means, "alright old person" now.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (10 children)

unneccessarily rude!

They might be just genX.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

millennial. turned 40 this year.

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