And burning cd/dvd’s is getting more popular due to disappearing content on streaming services. Some shows got removed and are no longer available to watch elsewhere legally. Such a shame.
Also making a comeback because of things like Elsagate and YouTube Kids’ weird algorithms. Parents need to have reliable kid-friendly media that they can put on, without constantly needing to monitor it… And a DVD box set of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood won’t end up showing your kid softcore fetish content disguised as children’s videos, as soon as you walk away from the screen to make dinner.
I run a small Plex/Jellyfin server, and have a library specifically for kids’ shows. And my users can lock their kids’ accounts down so they can only access that library. So my various friends and relatives can put something on via Plex, and trust that it will stay safe for their kids.
What do you use for storage?
Does this mean the case of 5.25" DVD burners I have will be worth something again?
I only rip them for jellyfin
If it hasn’t happened already, Netflix is dropping the new She-Ra show from their service, and they’ve never released a physical form.
Therefore, it is illegal to watch She-Ra.
Got annoyed when things started coming and going as early as 2018 and started a Blu-Ray collection. About 80% of it is secondhand. I’ll admit I still have a couple streaming services, but all the stuff I know I like is readily and consistently available now.
I believe a hard drive is cheaper now.
And fails earlier. That’s why I’m thinking of backing up some stuff onto dvds again.
I captured, taped, burned, and also ripped!
Rip and burn, until it is done.
Mom said it’s my turn to load Nero now
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it!
I am Ripper… Tearer… Slasher… Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength… and Lust… and Power! I AM BEOWULF!
Fun fact: It actually is kind of burning. With a laser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Writing_methods
Not enough to set it on fire, but enough to change a dye from translucent to opaque.
I burnt a CD yesterday.
Win XPGXYPJ-4W67Q-6273F-QJ7FR-9MW4M
Starcraft 1 - 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333(for some reason all 3s worked)
For StarCraft, the installer would do some math on all but the last number, then see if the result of that matched the last number to decide if the key was valid. So you could enter random numbers, then just retry while changing the last digit and guess a valid key in max 10 tries
Or 11 - the last digit could be X (for ten) if they were using the modulo 11 check digit system.
Same for Counter-Strike 1.6, but there it was
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
All 3’s worked too for CS (at least 1.5), that’s what we used
XCNF8-R99R9-R4XV8-2VQD7-FJP6M
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
No, but literally burning them was fun because of the colorful flames and smoke. And the burning lungs.
Spicy rainbow fires are the best.
Personalising CDs with 5 seconds in a microwave was always entertaining. I even got some tracks to “play” afterwards.
Burning CD’S aside, does she think we did this to get a text? 🤣🤣 this shit was before mobile phone were a thing, and when you had one as a teen you still couldn’t afford to text for hours on end
My.father burned thousands of CDs and DVDs to coax the old gods into giving him money. It took him 5 years to realize he was literally breaking even wasting hours a day. We had a hell of a dvd collection tho
That’s definitely peak dad energy. My dad would burn literally everything we rented, and later got through the mail from Netflix, even if he didn’t watch or care about the movie.
I think it just makes them feel powerful, rubbing it in the FBI warnings face.
I have not yet met a young person who doesn’t know what a CD is. I feel like the internet has pranked me.
It was them, wasn’t it? The kids. They started this rumor did they not? They’re laughing at us right now, aren’t they? They’re reading this comment and they know I fell for it.
But if you ask them what burning a cd is I bet they think it’s setting them on fire, not writing data to the disk.
Not me, haha my father tought me those things from a young age.
But did he show you how cool it is to microwave them?
The other day my cousin asked what blu-ray was. I felt so old.
We Gen Z get called “the first digital kids” but I clearly remember the last days of physical and optical media. My sister and I would burn CDs with songs we would download from LimeWire.
Pysical is not the opposite of digital.
Analog is ithe opposite of digital.
A CD is a digital medium, just like an SSD is.
If you want a rotating disk medium which is analog, you would need to get a vinyl.
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Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
I got a usb cd burner online for $15 recently
What are the price of disks now?
I don’t know, I still have about 30 spare from the turn of the century.
I keep finding unused packs of 100 for like a buck at thrift stores I could make a few thousand copies of some b list Ashton Kutcher movie then shingle my house with them.
Idk I didn’t buy any hahaha
$15 for 50 DVD-Rs on Amazon
I mean your laptop… oh right they can’t do that, not anymore.
Ahh, all you sweet summer children and your fancy CD burners and MP3 players…
I remember the OG “mixtapes”. Sitting on our bedroom floors for hours with a 9V 6 transistor radio and listening to the local rock and roll station hoping to hear your favorite group’s new song being announced by the DJ so you could press the play and record buttons on that cheap portable cassette player to record the latest songs. All just so you could have a shitty mono recording to listen to.
If your Girlfriend gave you a tape filled with all her favorite music, it was like both of you were half ways down the aisle and headed for marriage. It was that serious.
I am not that old and I remember doing that.
Next tell her that that text we were waiting on was made with only numbers on our phones. Her brain my come out her nose.
The secrets will not be exposed… Unless you are willing to join the black parade…
I had this application that would print a CD shaped stickers. I could upload and design any background, and add text with any font. It was when computers peaked.
