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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.
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)
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
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.
Probably Ubuntu 20.04 before I figured out how to use USB sticks.
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.
speak of CDS (and optical media/physical media?) Fun fact: there are still Video games/Music (even as new as 2025 and soon 2026) distributed in CDS,DVDS and vinyl.
so optical media/physical media are not Dying anytime soon.
(unless you count Blu-rays/Cartridges too,but its only mainly used as a download script on consoles though)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.
Why did yall stop? I sitll do. Sometimes i want hard copies or to send media to someone offline or anything like that
Never have, I didn’t get into Linux ISOs until they needed a DVD for capacity anyway and then shortly after I moved onto USB booting.
I literally burned a copy of xp pro retail onto one of these exact discs last week. The old disc was also a Sony, but it was off centre and would vibrate the shit outta the drive and not read properly.
It was porn. Shameful, unexplainable porn.
I didnt destroy it either it just went in a bin somewhere after my last big move. I wish I could see the face of whichever future hobby tech-archeologist finds it.
The worst thing I’ve found on an old unmarked CD was pictures of a baby on life support and it’s funeral.
I don’t get curious about old discs anymore.
Best answer.
I burned some CDs for our apartment manager’s husband a couple years ago.
this is the type of nostalgia I don’t get. I don’t miss it one bit. good riddance.
Dunno. Back in the day when all you had was once writable CD-R you needed to really put some tought on what songs you want to put on the disc. I feel like there was something really novel that we lost in making playlists now that they can be edited as much as you want.
I mean i do not want to go back to that anymore, but i think i used to spend more time thinking about music and the cd’s i made were more personal than any spotify lists i have now.
For one thing, I didn’t need a special goddam boot loader to install Linux, like I do with a USB.
