I shit my pants once when I was 32, I did not know that wouldn’t be the last time.
Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?
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
I haven’t burned my last one yet
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 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
Nah - CD’s are great.
Everyone should be burning Parenti lectures and leaving them in public spaces. Very fun past time.
Until you find a reason to do it again. I burned a cd like last year because my car has a cd player.
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.
Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.
CD, yes…
DVD? Man, I still keep recovery disks for repair jobs. Hiren’s is still a thing.
Sabine was talking about possible petabyte discs being on the horizon. Those might be worth burning some day in the future.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_yxsJuOMY&pp=ygUNcGV0YWJ5dGUgZGlzYw%3D%3D
I did or i atleast believe that then was the last time, you never know.
I’ve kept my Blu-ray burner in service from the past few rebuilds, probably had it about a decade or so
Though I’m not sure I’ve actually ever burned anything with it—used it to back up some old DVDs recently though
Every person you meet will eventually be seen for the last time. It’s odd how casual those departures can be.
