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I went through a stack of blurays recently trying to make backups of myrient. I also burn CDs with some regularity to listen to in the car.
I’m a weirdo like that. I love physical media. It’s unfuckwithable after you own it.
A couple of years ago I digitised a VHS tape that had Terminator 2 recorded off TV. And I burned it on DVD-R.
(I think it had some sound sync issue though? Might need to hunt for a better DVD mastering software.)
You know, I love the Blu-Ray version, but the version recorded off TV has a special place in my heart. Pure nineties feels.As for CD-Rs… I can’t remember.
I burned a Blu-ray like 2 weeks ago. I also routinely burn CDs because my relatively new car still has a player built in (though I think in the last 3 years, Subaru got rid of it on newer models)
Mine was probably FCKGW-RHQQ2-i forget the rest of the key.
I’ll go burn a cd right meow. Idgaf.
Why did yall stop? I sitll do. Sometimes i want hard copies or to send media to someone offline or anything like that
Last week for me. I burned a FreeDOS 1.4 CD to install it on my recently acquired Pentium 4 desktop.
I mean, I’d have still used a thumb drive at this point. I/O is way better.
I am not sure if old P4 machines have the BIOS support for USB booting. I know newer chipsets will.
Plop go brrr. I used it on my windows me laptopto install Damn small Linux
A lot of retro PC people use drive emulators you slot an SD card loaded with images files in. E.g. PicoIDE
I have a newer P4 machine and it supports USB boot
I have an older i7 that does not
I guess it depends more on the bios
I can’t know for sure, but probably a game for Dreamcast. The last CD-R spool I bought has been my office door stopper for years and years now. Verbatim brand, 2/3rd remain of a 50 pack.
It was a Linux ISO. I didn’t care. I was one of those weirdos that used minidisc. I miss minidisc terribly and I do not understand why.
My old car has a cd drive and really good speakers, and I have an old Linux computer with a cd/dvd drive, and cds are really cheap, and I pirate music, so the last time I burnt a cd was yesterday, and not out of novelty but because its the only way I can listen to music in the car.
I will probably burn another cd in the future, but ig you never know, lmao.
If your car has an aux you could use Bluetooth to aux. But yeah a lot of old cars don’t. Mine didn’t so I was in the same situation as you for many years burning CDs! They could be MP3 CDs though, very fancy ;P
Probably Ubuntu 20.04 before I figured out how to use USB sticks.
~10 years ago i bought one of those sony cd players with the giant carousel that holds like 200 discs. i probably spent a week burning entire discographies.
They still made them 10 years ago, or are you misremembering? 😁
I recall a friend bought one in the early 2000’s, which is like twenty years ago (ouch, that hurts).
thrift store find! i had to replace the belt that opens the door, but other than that it works perfectly ^^
That is very cool!
I still have a spool of 100 fresh discs plus a dozen RWs.
that day is yet to come.
That day came for me when I didn’t have a spare flash drive and wanted to fresh install my OS. I was a king that day.
And you never knew it was the last time… that’s the weird part.
I burned the soft mod dvd for my xbox, but that was 8 years ago. I’m thinking about using some M-disc as another offline backup for my server.
