Huh, I just got blank CDs yesterday.
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
Amusingly, I think I remember some of my last ones, though maybe not my absolute final one.
For the most part, I’d already moved away from CDs, but I got a job driving vans which didn’t have Bluetooth or an aux port. I ended up burning a few mp3 CDs für that job some time in late 2014.
Fun fact: one of those CDs contained brony music which I accidentally left in my van one night. I came into work the next day to hear it blaring on the warehouse speakers until I heard someone saying “what is this?” before changing the CD.
The drivers were all talking about it during lunch and I sat there quietly, amused by them trying to figure it out 😂
I’m assuming you’ve moved on, but if not, there are FM transmitters for when you want music or navigation instructions from your phone to play over the vehicle’s speakers. Bluetooth or 3.5mm jack ones are both available.
Oh god yeah you’re bringing back some memories there 😂
So I already knew they were a thing, but annoyingly on some of the vans there was only a single 12v socket, and we had to use that socket to plug in the navigation system/manifest.
So CDs were the easier choice until I got hold of one of those 12v splitters.
The one I had was far bulkier than the one shown.
A lot of the time it didn’t matter anyway because people don’t take care of the vans so a lot of the guys played their shit in the loading bays at full volume and would regularly blow the speakers out.
Sometimes I was going out with a Bluetooth speaker jammed between the dash and windscreen.
I had 100 solutions, it seems. The CDs were just one of them 😂
I taught one of my friends to drive. She now has her first car - a 15 year old Mini - so now she has my old FM transmitter 🥰
hey ^^ time to listen to some brony music :) i totally forgot that exists 😂👍
If you haven’t kept up, I’d recommend some of the “Ponies at Dawn” albums
Recollections was one of my favourites. Some absolute bangers on there
https://poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/recollections
Ignite starts off insanely strong as well
Brony music is legit! Heck even just the songs by Daniel Ingram are great stuff. I always liked Aurelleah and Jyc Row.
I might just go and burn one more when I get home, just for the heck of it ;)
I was thinking the same but I realized I am not sure I have a computer with a CD drive or a mother board that supports my old IDE drive
I have though, just need to install a rom burning SW again :D
Nero burning ROM :)
That wouls be suitable for nostalgia’s sake, but I’ll probably go for xfburn or whatever that name was ;)
I never knew that “road mix 17” was going to be the final release
Actually about to reverse course on this one. As a data hoarder, bluray as cold storage seem like a sensible solution.
How? It is pretty sensitive to weather and decay. Why not tapes?
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.
If you are doing long term storage (5+ years) i’m pretty sure that tapes win on costs
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll have a look at tape again and see where I end up.
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
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.
I don’t even have a device with an optical reader
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.
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.
lol I didn’t
It probably contained Linux
If I had to guess? Ubuntu Studio 14.04
I’m pretty sure I’m also done with USB sticks.
So how do you install operating systems?
The operating system is already there when I buy the device.
Gross
Dude, for the future. I don’t have anything against Linux. I will probably switch myself in a couple of months. But if You want people to know about it, don’t be a jackass. Don’t be pretentious. You fucking asshole.
A slight overreaction to what is clearly a dumb joke maybe?
What?
The os that comes with the computer is either chrome os, windows, or Mac os. Ew
Windows, I ain’t buying apple shit. So what?
The only good operating system is this one
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.
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
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?
Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.
I still have a BD-RE drive in my current setup. It almost never sees any use, but it’s definitely nice to have the option should I ever require it.
Same. I plan to burn some backup blu rays to free up space in the next year or so
It’s easy for me to remember. I made a cute soundtrack for an anniversary. I miss that relationship sometimes, but I try to convince myself leaving helped me grow.
