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 🥰
I hope she enjoys the Mini! Though at this point that's a fairly modern car. 15 years old is 2010 and many of those allow retrofitting factory options for sound. I'm looking to get Carplay in my brand new 18 year old German shitbox that's both falling apart and in excellent shape at the same time. Mr12volt has kits for a lot of those, but sadly no Minis.
This is Lemmy bruh. We still be burning discs on the reg.
Seriously though, I still like to listen to CDs in my car. Something about making that perfect 20 song banger mixtape just hits different. And then slotting old CDs and having no idea what songs are on there but usually being pleasantly surprised. Spotify/Bluetooth is too easy and casual, I tend to pay more attention and enjoy the music more when listening to CDs.
I have a visor CD holder with a few burnt copies of albums I always enjoy. Yes my car has Bluetooth and yes I use it, but sometimes it's just easier to pop in a CD. It's also more legal, a couple of years ago a coworker got ticketed for distracted driving because the cop saw him switching albums on his phone while driving. I doubt you'll get pulled over for swapping CDs.
My co-worker's car was broken into while he was moving house. His cd collection was in the car and the only cd left was the one in the cd player. So we listened to who's next by the who all summer. Nothing quite like coming back from a rave at 6 in the morning with baba O'Riley blasting. The soundtrack to a perfect wasted summer.
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 recently tried. Didn't work. Don't know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted.
CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.
CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.
Spoken like a person who doesn't own a floppy drive. 😞
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
I'm just making a silly joke, of course, but I think there's enough temporal overlap between floppy drives and USB ports that it's accurate.
:::
The first computer I ever used was a Macintosh 128k. It didn't have an OS. The OS was on a floppy that you had to have in to start the system. My dad bought two external floppy drives so that he could run more complex programs on the thing.
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.
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.
Since I have to deal with an older system that has not yet been replaced (and isn't slated to be for a variety of reasons), combined with some security requirements that the clients IT team had put into place...
I still have blank CDs and have burned them relatively recently. Probably will be doing so again in about 2 months....
I don't think that's true. I have a 20+ year old iBook G3 that I keep around to tinker with Mac OS 7-9. The usb slots either don't work, or at least don't support newer usb drives, so it's only a matter of time before I hop over to the Macintosh Garden and start burning discs again.
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.
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.
What printer do you have? If it has a (micro) USB port, you can most likely set up OctoPi on a raspberry pi, connect the Pi to your printer and print over the network.
I thought about this a lot after the last time I saw this post. I am almost positive it was a The Prodigy mix that I made for myself. My little sister got a car with a CD drive in it as her first car and she asked for my old CDs and that's the latest one I can recall making.
Crazy to think that 10+ years after I made that CD now my little sister is listening to it haha. And I was already listening to many cd mixes my mom and father had given to me over the years. That CD case probably has illegally downloaded music burned to CDs from over 25 years ago in it. Not to mention several actual CDs that are probably almost 50 years old at this point. My father loved the classics and after he ripped his entire library to cram into his digital magic box he let a lot of the physical CDs go to his son's. at least 1 or two ended up on that cd case of mine.
Yep, it was the 10th time i was attempting to burn a clients files to DVD’s. I swore i was never going through that again. Then after i got a successful burn prompt, i went to hit ok and a fatal error had occured, and lo and behold the burn failed after verification. Joined the Navy within the week.
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 🥰
I hope she enjoys the Mini! Though at this point that's a fairly modern car. 15 years old is 2010 and many of those allow retrofitting factory options for sound. I'm looking to get Carplay in my brand new 18 year old German shitbox that's both falling apart and in excellent shape at the same time. Mr12volt has kits for a lot of those, but sadly no Minis.
Can you daisy chain those?
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
https://poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/ignite
Brony music is legit! Heck even just the songs by Daniel Ingram are great stuff. I always liked Aurelleah and Jyc Row.
This is Lemmy bruh. We still be burning discs on the reg.
Seriously though, I still like to listen to CDs in my car. Something about making that perfect 20 song banger mixtape just hits different. And then slotting old CDs and having no idea what songs are on there but usually being pleasantly surprised. Spotify/Bluetooth is too easy and casual, I tend to pay more attention and enjoy the music more when listening to CDs.
I have a visor CD holder with a few burnt copies of albums I always enjoy. Yes my car has Bluetooth and yes I use it, but sometimes it's just easier to pop in a CD. It's also more legal, a couple of years ago a coworker got ticketed for distracted driving because the cop saw him switching albums on his phone while driving. I doubt you'll get pulled over for swapping CDs.
Man you ain’t lying about having random songs on them. I’m always equally impressed and disturbed by some of the CDs I’ve made in the past.
My co-worker's car was broken into while he was moving house. His cd collection was in the car and the only cd left was the one in the cd player. So we listened to who's next by the who all summer. Nothing quite like coming back from a rave at 6 in the morning with baba O'Riley blasting. The soundtrack to a perfect wasted summer.
I shit my pants once when I was 32, I did not know that wouldn't be the last time.
It might not be.
In the North of England that's called 'shittin yer keks'.
I never knew that "road mix 17" was going to be the final release
I've written to a CD last year.
Holy hell
Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?
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
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 ;)
Nah - CD’s are great.
Everyone should be burning Parenti lectures and leaving them in public spaces. Very fun past time.
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.
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
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.
Until you find a reason to do it again. I burned a cd like last year because my car has a cd player.
Yup. I tossed out a whole sleeve of them things a couple years ago. New burn every time. Then I saved them ... because ... um ... nothing.
I haven't burned my last one yet
I recently tried. Didn't work. Don't know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted.
CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.
Spoken like a person who doesn't own a floppy drive. 😞
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler I'm just making a silly joke, of course, but I think there's enough temporal overlap between floppy drives and USB ports that it's accurate. :::
Remember when BIOSes weren't able to boot from CD-ROM so you needed a boot disk? Or was that just a windows problem?
The first computer I ever used was a Macintosh 128k. It didn't have an OS. The OS was on a floppy that you had to have in to start the system. My dad bought two external floppy drives so that he could run more complex programs on the thing.
I owned Win95 on floppy. That was a hell of an install. 11 disks?
Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.
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.
Will there be a time where we will write to a USB stick for the last time?
I don't even have a device with an optical reader
And one day, a few years later, I threw away my opened package of unwritten raw CDs and DVDs.
Still feels like a waste. But my spool was just taking up space.
I regret it, it was dozens of disks, and yet haven't needed a CD since.
Although I do still use DVDs on occasion.
I still remember doing the same thing
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.
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
I did or i atleast believe that then was the last time, you never know.
CD, yes...
DVD? Man, I still keep recovery disks for repair jobs. Hiren's is still a thing.
lol I didn't
yeah, but i’m planning on that day being the future. gotta save all my music offline 💖
ive never burned a CD (I do use them for music though)
It's never too late. Now, find a lighter...
I'm not so young I don't know what burning a CD is I just never needed to BC flash drives were better and cheap when I was a kid.
Every person you meet will eventually be seen for the last time. It's odd how casual those departures can be.
Since I have to deal with an older system that has not yet been replaced (and isn't slated to be for a variety of reasons), combined with some security requirements that the clients IT team had put into place...
I still have blank CDs and have burned them relatively recently. Probably will be doing so again in about 2 months....
I didn't really ever burn any CDs myself (though I have a few burnt ones). But just end of last year I ripped a CD
It probably contained Linux
If I had to guess? Ubuntu Studio 14.04
Let me just burn this last CD and then recycle this computer
Me when I burned my last cd
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?
I don't think that's true. I have a 20+ year old iBook G3 that I keep around to tinker with Mac OS 7-9. The usb slots either don't work, or at least don't support newer usb drives, so it's only a matter of time before I hop over to the Macintosh Garden and start burning discs again.
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
Ohhh you’re not there yet
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.
What printer do you have? If it has a (micro) USB port, you can most likely set up OctoPi on a raspberry pi, connect the Pi to your printer and print over the network.
Ok, I don't have a 3d printer. Yet.
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 thought about this a lot after the last time I saw this post. I am almost positive it was a The Prodigy mix that I made for myself. My little sister got a car with a CD drive in it as her first car and she asked for my old CDs and that's the latest one I can recall making.
Crazy to think that 10+ years after I made that CD now my little sister is listening to it haha. And I was already listening to many cd mixes my mom and father had given to me over the years. That CD case probably has illegally downloaded music burned to CDs from over 25 years ago in it. Not to mention several actual CDs that are probably almost 50 years old at this point. My father loved the classics and after he ripped his entire library to cram into his digital magic box he let a lot of the physical CDs go to his son's. at least 1 or two ended up on that cd case of mine.
Yep, it was the 10th time i was attempting to burn a clients files to DVD’s. I swore i was never going through that again. Then after i got a successful burn prompt, i went to hit ok and a fatal error had occured, and lo and behold the burn failed after verification. Joined the Navy within the week.