I’m going to go burn one for the last time just to subvert this meme.
I doubt it. Although, I imagine I may have recorded over my last tape.
It was Armin Van Buuren’s Intense. Burned it for a road trip.
I had to do it last year so my school would let me listen to music during tests. Had to be on a burned cd so they could review it for cheating. I’m just lucky I still put a disc-drive in my pc builds.
June 13th, 2022. 7:13pm. If that’s the last one I burn, I will at least know when. It was Windows XP Media Center 2005, for my fleamarket Dell Demension E510. Well, more accurately, an E310 with a E510 motherboard.
I’m about to drop a supermicro Xeon board plus an E3-1275 and 32G of ECC ram into the guts of this old Optiplex 790 mini tower I have. (i3 2100, so a generation newer, and a Xeon instead of an i3)
I plan to eventually get a better case but for now this is fine. Right now it’s running Plex media server on FreeBSD on bare metal, but I’m planning to swap to proxmox once I get the new board installed.
Unfortunately that won’t be for another week. While the board will be here today, it is a little more power hungry than the old system, and I’m already pushing the OEM 375W PSU with 5 drives (SATA SSD and 4 7200rpm SAS drives) so I also have a PSU coming. But that is not expected until middle of next week.
Oh, that sounds like a fun project! Going to post it to Lemmy when you’re done? I’m not familiar with proxmox. I see it’s based on Debian, is it basically an os specifically for running vm instances or something?
I like the look of that generation Optiplex. My current main PC is a slightly upgraded XPS 8930, which is IMO one of the ugliest Dell cases. And the airflow has been a terrible challenge. But since it’s not a standard board, I can’t just pop it in a better case. And there’s no way im buying a new mobo for an LGA 1151. So, I’m stuck until I build something new.
If we include DVDs I probably put a Linux distro iso on one in 2010 or 2011. CDs? Maybe a CD I made for a road trip on 2009 or 2010.
i sure was fucking hoping it was though
DBAN baby!
Work with medical data in Germany and you’ll burn CDs every day, probably for the next 50 years.
Little known fact, German doctors love to make cd’s for every procedure. The most famous of these as shown by German medical data is Heinrich’s Proctology Polka Mega Mix.
My gen Z kids burn CDs - it’s a “retro” thing for them. Literally burnt one last week.
CDs are too small, so yeah. DVDs on the other hand? Optical disks are the only practical media that is EMP-proof. After the apocalypse, I’ll still have all my coding projects, thank you very much.
Youll have all your coding projects, but nothing to read them with.
CDs and DVDs are the same size? (/s)
They do degrade naturally, so I hope you are redoing this every decade or so
I still burn blu ray M-discs
Start doing it again! Owning your media is cool and good, actually
It is, but CDs are much too small.
Too small? How so?
700MB (80 Minutes of audio) is too small compared to today’s standards.
I did know. It was 2 years ago when me and my neighbour pranked our neighborhood grandma by burning shitty music and leaving the CD in the mail.
I do the opposite now. I buy discs cheap from bin stores, rip them onto my desktop and then upload to my home library for more affordable ‘streaming’.
