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Oh I knew. It was the last CD in the spindle and I had no plans of buying any more.
Last week isn’t really that long ago. Going through my mom’s old things and found a PC she bought new back in 2013. A Dell Optiplex 790 with a dvdrw in it.
I just happened to have a couple of blanks so I verified that it worked before pulling it out and using it as an external drive. Works that way as well on my much newer Ryzen 5800x build in a case with no 5.25" bays. (Or externally accessed 3.5s for that matter. No external bays of any sort other than some USB ports on the front.)
My 2006 Honda also has a 6 disc changer and it sounds better than the Bluetooth adapter I connected to it. (It is wired to the back of the factory sound system, but Bluetooth audio just sounds flat to me, even on the best speakers)
Assuming your head unit is double-din, you could upgrade your radio that has an equalizer feature built in
That won’t do anything about Bluetooth audio compression.
Remember me Nero Express, good memories, awesome name for a CD burner.
My brother recently found 15 year old CDs with family photos and they still work.
It’s funny how video game media often degrades quickly due to use, but well-packaged and lightly used discs can last for many years. Maybe still a great solution for data that doesn’t need to be accessed constantly.
Except disc rot is a thing.
It’s why I’ve gone through all of my old media and transferred them to my media PC. But I have to admit it’s more satisfying when it’s in the form of physical media, when it’s all computer files I hardly ever look at them.
That’s me. ADD and 678 folders of digital media is not fun. I need physical. Plus, it’s actually real then.
As a kid I always thought that Nero is a stupid name for a program because in Finnish nero means genius. To be honest I still think that it’s a stupid name.
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.
I remember the day I burned my last CD. The fire department paid me a visit.
I’m gonna burn a bunch of music to cd this week just because I can. Might even archive some movies.
It was Armin Van Buuren’s Intense. Burned it for a road trip.
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.
Jokes on you, I’ve never burned a CD
My barely consumed blank cd tower somewhere in my basement agrees.
I thought that I burned my last cd a long time ago until my uni required me to hand in my thesis on a cd.
Buying a 4-pack of CDs (with cases) was more expensive than buying a 128gb sd card.
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Even if nuclear war breaks out, at least the bank will still have records of how much we still owe them :)
I still burn blu ray M-discs
i burned a cd 2 weeks ago.
… and you didn’t know it was the last time
Every time is the last one, at least for a while
naw, we have a cd juke box at my work. pretty sure ill be burning them for the foreseeable future.
Still in denial, I see /hj
/hj? Did you just give him a handjob?
No, it means “half joking” /s
he did tho
Wait, so they’re only half joking about the handjob?
Did I get here too late?
the floaties got in the way
Cd…or DVD?
cd, thats why i said cd.
Ok, boomer
unneccessarily rude!
They might be just genX.
everyone forgets about gen x
No we fuckin don’t, you lot wont let us forget you.
…who?
Okay Xoomer
That’s just zoomer again
It’s pronounced Ex-oomer
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I’m a millennial and I burned a CD last month
millennial. turned 40 this year.
Ok dad
holy cow, how are you still not in bed, kid! Off you go!
Ok zygote
I don’t think burning CDs was much of a boomer activity.
CD players were first sold in 1982, when Boomers (if the baby boom started 1945) were hitting their 40s and established in every industry. I think they were actually the perfect demographic to be able to afford a CD player when it first came out.
Yeah but burning CDs yourself wasn’t a thing until much later.
First affordable CD burner was from 1995. 50 year olds tend to not adopt new technology, it’s a millennial thing.
https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/consumer-cd-r-drive-priced-below-1000/
Yet again, GenX is overlooked.
As someone who worked sales in that time period, yes, it was the younger crowd (Gen X) that adapted much better to burning CDs. A lot of the baby boomers had difficulty with understanding certain key concepts and details. … And instructions to be honest…
As for the “Boomer” commenter above: the military and government in the USA still burns to CD for a variety of reasons (no, I won’t go into them). So if someone is military, a government employee, or even just a contractor, there is a chance that at some point they will need to burn a CD, regardless of age.
Shut up. They’re supposed to forget about us.
Really? Cause in my time in the army I never once saw any kind of military information being saved to cd. Not once. Never. Even in the early 2000s that was just never a thing. Ever.
I requested my medical records from my time in the military in 2014 and received them on CD. Which was funny because I didn’t have a computer that could read them at the time, and I still haven’t read them. Turns out the information i needed was already available to the people giving my c&p exam
Sounds like you might not have been part of a team that needed to do so. In the environments I had been part of, they had requirements for it.
In Germany MRI and CT images are regularly handed to patients on CDS.
Germany is also technologically 30 years behind the rest of the world…
Same in the US.
It’s a gen-x thing, you know, the forgotten generation.
Lived through the “DOUBLE SPEED!!!” reader up to the 52 some read-write-rewrite.
I had several generations, and it was always a huge speed increase. 52x was like lightning
52x baby. Much speed. Such fast.
The phrase just means, “alright old person” now.
And I declare that calling someone a cunt now means that you like and respect that person. Please go ahead and use it on your boss next time you see them.
No boomers are the ones reading the CDs not writing them. Their kids are writting them.
I still burn CDs. This whole streaming thing won’t last. Also, my back hurts…
The real meta is to have a hard drive full of flac files and use tailscale to stream them wherever you are from your computer at home
I need to learn how to do this.
Start with Plex and learn from there.
Jellyfin
That’s step two.
I plan to do so myself. Basically find a Linux package that streams audio on your LAN and get tailscale
Yeah well… Can you set the time on a VCR?
Plexamp is also good for this
That’s the dream. Currently debating what to do with a spare laptop and “make it a server” sounds ideal.
I suggest Navidrome
The main thing you need to worry about in that case is the battery. It’s useful to have a built in UPS, but definitely keep an eye on it, especially after keeping it plugged in for long periods of time.
