I still use them (in M-DISC blu-ray form) for encrypted backups.
Damn, them discs are expensive.
Yeah, but worth it for important backups since they take a long time to degrade!
I’d love a tape drive but i’m poor
I just burned one today, it was the easiest way to transfer a game to a Windows 95 notebook. 🫠
Friggin Keener
Why didn’t you just zip drive it?
I loved my zip drive so much.
Don’t have a ZIP drive, only a 1.44meg floppy drive.
isn’t commander keen a floppy disk game already?
“Foray in the Forest” is a community mod and it’s bigger than 1.44MB. I could’ve split that up into multiple floppies, but I don’t have a modern PC with a floppy drive, so the easiest way was to burn a CD.
oh i didn’t realize it was a mod
Wait is that in the background supposed to be the tardis?
I’m gonna burn a bunch of music to cd this week just because I can. Might even archive some movies.
Mdisks are a viable offline long term backup solution, and cheaper to get started with than tape drives.
It was only a few years ago, when I ran off some Dreamcast games.
I burned an Active Shooter video for work last week. I got a lot of spare discs. Might be a good way to store copies of everything the fascists are deleting.
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.
They do degrade naturally, so I hope you are redoing this every decade or so
Youll have all your coding projects, but nothing to read them with.
CDs and DVDs are the same size? (/s)
Jokes on you, I still burn my acquired digital media to BluRay discs
Disk rot is like 25 years while an SSD still doesn’t have that kind of shelf life
Doesn’t it make more sense use harddisks?
I mean, the ultimate long terms storage medium seems to be tape, but that stuff is very expensive, but outside that harddisks seem to have the best balance of accessibility and shelf life.
Right post there chief
Who are these mad men who are dumping stuff to SSDs and then sitting them on a shelf? Can’t get my mind around it.
You’d be surprised. And then they tell me disk rot makes BD not recommended… meanwhile this happens after several decades and is exceedingly rare
Never burned a CD in my life. And now I never will, just to spite you
Zoomer
I still burn DVDs. Ever since USB storage was deemed “not secure”, they are the easiest way to get data into and out of sensitive networks.
I learned not too long ago that SSDs lose data if they don’t get keep getting power… Not sure how true that is, but if true, pretty awful.
So does all storage media. The difference is just how long it takes.
Nothing is permanent, everything is transient. Enthropy comes for us all.
It’s true.
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What’s burning a cd?
Fuck the irony of a child calling themselves the grammar police.
The internet is a lie and I take no one seriously.
Bro, I’m an adult male
The act of ‘burning’ an optic disc was to write data onto a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray. It was called that because a laser would literally burn the information into the disc.
Thanks grandpa🙏
I was hoping for it tho.
I still occasionally burn CDs, whenever I need new music in the car that doesn’t require my phone. Last time was last year.
