"I used to be with it"
"I used to be with it"
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"Look grandpa, I found this box full of save icons in your old stuff"
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And omg soo much retro porn which is now banned in the us
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CDeez Nutz Burnin’
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You like tapes and CDs?
How 'bout I tape my dick to your head so you can CDs nuts!?
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There's a cream for that
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And a weed strain
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CDs nuts!
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Got em.
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Wait until they hear we ripped them after burning them
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Never. The audio equivalent of "Needs More JPEG"
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This CD is not for your Stereo, it's for your Computer!
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Back in my day we burned a lot of CDs…
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Funny to think that the same number of drives would fit into maybe 1/4 of this height if made in the slim form factor.
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I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.
All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I'm amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.
I found that I still had two plastic tubes of DVD+Rs!
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Linux has built-in in dvd burning and ripping tools that work amazingly. Been ripping all my ps1 and ps2 games.
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You had to monitor the computer, if any program started or did anything weird, it could cause the entire disc to be destroyed, and you had to start over
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99% finished
Critical error, disc burning failed.*
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Low effort joke
When I was your age, we used to own our music. It worked offline and we could copy it to other devices.
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Why aren't Normies speaking up about everything needing internet? Street navigation, music, videos, reading, games, etc. Are all things that would work brilliantly normally, no server required. Why does no one realise, that if the server disappears, so does in effect their personal property? If it is tethered to a server, it's broken, because the server will disappear, the question is only when.
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why aren't normies speaking up
They dont care. Speaking as a normie-convert, so long as it works right now idgaf. When it doesn't work tomorrow I'll cry about it then and demand to speak to the manager, but right now? Summer will last forever.
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Normies dont understand the abstraction layer between all their data being stored in offline data banks and being mined for illegal ai use and surveillance.
Ill keep my physical media thanks. Never was on the cloud bandwagon, I wont be on the ai bandwagon.
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Why aren't Normies speaking up
I'm the most bland person you'll ever meet and I kept all my CDs and DVDs. I would never buy something only as digital/cloud format that I couldn't burn on a disc. It gave me anxiety from the beginning. I have multiple external storages with the same copies of photos and I still print the most precious ones out. I'll have music and memories if the internet ever breaks down, I just need a power generator.
I also absolutely don't see physical copies of books, music, or movies, as clutter. Booklets in CDs are to die for, and I think it makes for great room decor. If I burn a CD I usually make some collage artwork as a cover to accompany the disc.
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I told my dad I want cassette tapes to come back. He laughed and said how he remembered how crystal clear CDs were when he listened to them for the first time. What can I say dad, I like a little wow/flutter in my music.
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Cds are digital data storage discs that are etched in microscopic 1's and 0's in a microscopic spiral with a laser, and then later read back with lasers. You can only write them once but you can read them a million times. So grammatically, in the same way you "nuke" food in a microwave, you "burn" a cd in a cd drive that is capable of writing cds.
Maybe someday we can have cheap (cheaper than other storage media per gb), durable (last at least my lifetime), terabyte, fast read optical media. I would love to permanently store lots of stuff that doesn't ever need to be rewritten.
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You can only write them once
CD-RW has entered the chat.
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Well you etch pits you don't actually use numbers. Also it's not a spiral, it's not a record player it's not been read by physical stylus so you don't need a guide, they're just concentric circles.
You start the disc off as a zero, then whenever you need to transition to a one you etch a pit, then it will continue to read that as one until you etch another pit and flip back to zero. So the sequence 0111001 would be etched as
_.__.__.Discs can also be overwritten, and used multiple times, you just wipe the entire top layer off and start again on the layer below, only really cheap CDs were single use.
As for the future there are already experimental crystal storage solutions (made out of artificial diamond so it would be essentially indestructible) which really are single use, but they can store hundreds of petabytes of data so you would probably just treat them as if they were rewritable. There's also DNA storage but the equipment to save and read the data is nowhere near commercially viable yet.
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The pits just represent numbers. A 1-bit memory cell typically stores high or low voltage. The numbers 0 and 1 only exist as a platonic ideal, and there are many ways to represent them in the real world.
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Ngl, i didn't know it was concentric circles. I always thought it was a spiral like a vinyl record.
Also the encode is pretty neat, I didn't know that.
I DID know about RWs being rewritable, and you could sort of brute force some supposedly single write discs.
To be clear, I wrote that to be as simple as possible like if a person read it who really didn't have any idea, they could have a relatively quick understanding in plain terms. Guess even I learned something today!
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There's a Bluray media called MDisc that's supposed to be more durable. It says 1000 years so I give it 100 based on the fact that the 100 year rated Verbatim AZZO DVD+R's that I burned and verified to have low PIO errors had errors after 10 years stored in black cases in my temperature controlled basement.
People claim their burned DVD's are all fine but I've never heard a post back when I asked if they've actually verified all the bits. "It reads when I put it in." doesn't mean there isn't data corruption.
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I think there are some optical media like that. the discs are cheap but the readers are made of mithril.
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M-disc, I presume?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc - This one floundered and died before coming to market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_optical_data_storage - A bunch of different solutions, and it looks like they were all being developed independently circa 2008, and then went nowhere
My guess is that there's not much use case beyond archival backups. That's not going to get the economies of scale that CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays have. It'd be priced for the enterprise market, but they already have perfectly good archival backup solutions. You'd also have to prove that it can be durable for at least a few decades, but even for commercial duplication, previous optical formats are just OK at best on longevity.
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A CD is a Certificate of Deposit. You see, back in the 1900s, our parents had this thing called DISPOSABLE INCOME thought to be a myth, but trust me, it was real. People had so much money they wouldn’t starve to death if they didn’t work overtime.
Anyway, they needed a place to put it, so get this: they could deposit it into an account, and it would actually grow! Then they’d get a Certificate of Deposit to verify they really gave the bank the money because—guess what—it wasn’t a scam! They got the money back! I know, right? Amazing.
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Maybe it’s finally time to throw out the half finished pack of blank cds away. They’ve been sitting on my bookshelf for 20 years
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I had a pack like that, tried to use them last year and every one of them failed to burn. Must have hit their shelf life somewhere along the way
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Not having lived through it is fine; being unable to google a couple of words is just virtue signalling how lazy you are, especially considering this is probably coming from someone who's glued to their phone all day.
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Bruh it's clearly meant to be a joke lmao
Calm down gramps
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I'm a school bus driver and I'm not even joking when I say I blew my kids' minds with a burned CD the other day. My daughter asked me to make one of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One kid asked how I got it on CD and when I showed him a burned disc complete with sharpie label his response was just, "Wait you can do that?!"
Made me feel old as hell.
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Well of course the first step is to tie an onion to your belt. You can't burn CDs if you're not stylish.
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See, I had a 6 cd rack for burning but I never learned why it was called burning. Every time I asked in irc, they said something to the effect of “head to the doctor, you should get that looked at.” Any kind lemming care to elucidate me?
Edit: finally I can rest in peace (and go to the doctor)
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Sure! It's called "burning a CD" because you are literally burning it. You are using a laser to burn or etch a texture into the CD that can be read by the lasers in other CD drives.
Anyone more knowledgeable than me is more than welcome to add details and correct whatever I got wrong. I know the basic concept, but I'm no CD engineer.
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Edit: The original explanation I had here was that a laser burns pits in the CD material but that was wrong, apparently only pressed discs use physical pits in the material. The laser used in a home CD burner changes the color of a photosensitive dye on a recordable CD. So I think actually "burning" is due to a misunderstanding (which I had until I just looked it up) of how a home CD writer works.
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My understanding was that it had to do with the laser in the CD/DVD/bluray drive "burning" the data onto the disc.
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There was a downloader called lime wire, it was a simpler time.
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I still burn CD's.
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Light one up for the homies, will ya
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Back in the day here in Finland we ordered bulk of cd/dvd r and rw’s from Åland Islands (autonomous region of Finland). They were cheaper thanks to taxes loophole. I still had 20 pcs of dvd’s from those days and burned them all to save some space on my pc.
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It's what nazis and christians burned before books were invented
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Did anyone ever have a Lightscribe burner? I always wanted one. It seemed pretty dope being able to etch a label onto the disc with the same device that wrote data to it.
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Yes. It was neat, but actually sucked because the contrast was so low. Switched back to Sharpie after a few
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Good ol alcohol 120%
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It would take less time to just search “burning cds” than even posting this.
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Most people thought you had to snap them in half to destroy the data, and that the data was on the "down side". No no my friend, the data is the shiny label part and you can wreck the disc by just flaking some off with a pointy metal thing.
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have a stack of blanks. no cd drive. almost bought a usb burner but thumb drive is better. cds only hold like 600mb
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And here's me planning my album release and obsessing over how much vinyl and CDs to order
Spoiler alert: it's next to none, but not cause I don't love'em or they're out of style, but cause I am broke
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I've still got CDs I burned back in 08. Nowadays its blurays
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There was a DVD in between you know
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Yeah went there too, but all of those have not survived here
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I still have the DVDs and CDs I burnt back in the day. I will never give up my music
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Lol, consumerism.
Still burning cds and making tapes here. Nothing changed. You got sucked into consumer capitalism
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Are you manufacturing your own CDs and tapes, or are you buying them as a consumer?
Good job not being a consumer I guess.
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True, but im also reusing a shit ton of stuff and not buying into the "i need new all the time I need the latest thing" I dont even hace a set of wireless headphones because they are A: stupid, and B: my 15 year old headphones work perfectly. My car is 13 years old and i do most repairs. Never had a new car.
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"We used to mark them 'summer mix' and put them in a soft case full of them in the car, which was the style at the time"
You would change your disc at a red light, as tradition tells
Pah, I had a CD-changer for 6 discs!
I did it at 80 for style points