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.
Yeah, like Nero … burning Rom(e).
Not once did I consider why it was called Nero.
I totally get that. Took me a while too and then I felt so dumb, because their logo was the colosseum in flames and everything made so much sense in hindsight.
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.
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.
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.
Idk I didn’t buy any hahaha
I firmly believe figuring out how to bypass the little tab on cassettes to make them writable again to impress girls with mixtapes was THE defining moment that launched the pheaker and subsequent hacker movements.
Adobe played a huge role in creating a generation of hackers by charging 2x the price of a car for a photoshop license.
That and hatred for the drummer of Metallica.
I thought it was the captain crunch whistle that started the phreaker era
No, but literally burning them was fun because of the colorful flames and smoke. And the burning lungs.
Personalising CDs with 5 seconds in a microwave was always entertaining. I even got some tracks to “play” afterwards.
Spicy rainbow fires are the best.
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.
being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
Methinks she was pretending to not (know how to) know for the bants
quite possibly, not very well versed in the social media arts
Or rather didn’t particularly care, but found more fun in imagining more fantastical scenarios to entertain herself.
Google sucks.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a decade.
DuckDuckGo is basically just Bing with a bit more privacy and Bing search results suck too.
Dunno, ddg delivers what I need.
What do you use search engines for?
I’ve tried everything and I really really really can’t use Google. It just never gets me what I want. DDG works ok, and is usually my default because it’s fast and simple.
Recently (1 or 2 years) I’ve found Brave search to be fantastic though. You may want to disable the AI search summary (it’s better than Google’s or DDG’s ai stuff, but still ultimately ai). Now, I find myself reaching for brave search when I’m doing more serious searching. I have both DDG and Brave saved as search short cuts in librewolf. Highly recommend.
If it does was you need it to do you should definitely use it, privacy vise it’s obviously way better than google. Haven’t tried in in about 2 years, maybe the search results got better but the last time I tried it often presented me weird sites that technically contained the words I searched for but were completely irrelevant - entered the same question onto Google and immediately got me a stack overflow question that was practically the same question I had but phrased a bit differently. But as I said, maybe it’s no longer so bad as when I tried it.
For a long time I used DuckDuckGo for everything except specific error messages, because Google was better at those, but Google got more shitty and so did stack overflow, so I don’t bother much with Google anymore.
I burnt a CD yesterday.
Win XPGXYPJ-4W67Q-6273F-QJ7FR-9MW4M
Starcraft 1 - 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333(for some reason all 3s worked)
Same for Counter-Strike 1.6, but there it was
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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.
XCNF8-R99R9-R4XV8-2VQD7-FJP6M
Is this an illegal number?
only illegal if Microsoft still supported XP.
This is how Elrond felt when someone spoke the words from the one ring.
Wasn’t that FCKGW-RHQQ2-YX… Something 🤣 knew that entire key for a pretty long time, but looks like it starts to fade.
Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor
I think i’ve still never been more impressed by a program name since. you’re literally “Burning ROM”…
On the mac, there was Toast (it burns), and Nero had an ad that said that they “Eat Toast for Breakfast.”
What a great era for software branding.
Oh my God
Right, only took me almost twenty years too
I’m so fucking impressed, and simultaneously I feel like a dumbass for never getting it
DUDE
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.
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.
Ssd’s and thumb drives are soooo much easier though Get jellyfin to serve it to your tv
I also use jellyfin. Most of my movies are digital copies.
I took a class on DVD creation back in the day, how to write the menus and link tracks and whatnot.
Time to shake off the ‘ol bootleg machine.
DVD Studio Pro was legit.
I did the full Final Cut —> Compressor + Motion for menu animations —> DVD Studio Pro then burned a stack of discs and applied labels
Completely unnecessary, but fun
Way easier to write a couple h264 rips in mkv onto one 4.7 GB dvd.
That class sounds fun.
it was cool, it wasn’t JUST on that but we spent a lot of time on that. It was an introductory digital video editing class.
I did one on how to design teletext pages. On a separate and unrelated issue, my joints hurt.
my joints hurt
At our age you might wanna switch to edibles over smoking if it’s hurting you ;)
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.
Watching media more than once? This kills the child!
Not at all. One of my kids only likes to watch the same thing over and over and over. I think it must be comforting in the same way that we like to listen to the same music over and over; we recognize what comes next and there is a comfort in having that power.
I know. :) <3
What do you use for storage?
Personally I use NAS for a similar setup. Over 100TBs of storage, but kids movies (2.1TB) and TV (6.6TB) is just a small chunk of that.
What’s your drive of choice? And what enclosure do you like?
Whatever i can get for cheap that’s not utter garbage. Usually that’s WD, I dont trust Seagate (yes, I had that 3TB drive. 5 of them to be specific).
And my enclosure of choice is whatever case will fit the shenanigans I want to put in, nothing specific. Well other than being rack mount or a case that fits neatly in my rack.
I only rip them for jellyfin
Does this mean the case of 5.25" DVD burners I have will be worth something again?
especially when you have 2 of those; duplex burning!!!
… I could fill all 5.25* bay I have with DVD burners (some with lightscribe). I own five full tower cases.
MASS DUPLICATION
geez… my panties are wet now :O
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.
You should know, depending on the type and quality of the media, that CD/DVDs degrade over time spanning from 5-20 years (very high quality presses/burns can last upward of 50, but you are likely not doing that at home). Probably doesn’t matter for most use-cases, but just so people don’t get the idea that it’s good for long term storage past those rough estimates.
this is how I ended up finding out there are now much better rips available for many of the shows I burned to DVD in the mid 2000s
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.
buffer underrunAh, you amateurs with your slow hdd / bad partitioning / fragmentation / uncontrolled background processes!
I had a slow ass windows 98 pc back then, get off my back :/
Stop! You’re scaring me!
good, so you better have a decent transfer rate or you will destroy all those sweet discs!
– - ( ( ( cyclic redundancy eRrRoOoOoOrRrRr! ) ) ) - –
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Mom said it’s my turn to load Nero now
Dual cassette decks baby, all the C64 games you could ever wish for!
Wait until you hear about the band who put a c64 program into the runoff area of their vinyl.
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!
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it!
You can mount and write to CDs like as easy as if it were a USB stick. The hardest part now is getting a CD drive.
Please, no need to exaggerate. What if you don’t close the writing session? What speed can you write at so there are no errors and it keeps the longest? How do you avoid buffer underruns? How do you write an ISO as an image instead of a file? Will it bootable too?
There is a right click menu that handles all this
Is there also a right click menu that handles all these concerns with usb drives?
Do you not have a collection of Blu-ray’s or even DVDs you always wanted to rip to your Jellyfin server? That’s at least my excuse for having a drive.
I do have a USB CD drive. But i had to go out and buy it. Ive only used once to get a bunch of family photos off old CDs.
Burning CDs is basically the act of transferring music data onto a compact disc-based storage medium.
If you want this in simple terms: When you burn a CD, you’re burning data into the disc.
You actually are (kind of) burning the disc. At least, a layer of organic dye within the disc. With a laser.
Transferring data to a CD with FRICKIN’ LASER BEAMS.
Oh and this is my 718th comment. Enough said.
