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I was browsing a technical store's website and came across some DVDs. On sale. You'd need an optical drive to use them, unless you use them to decorate your walls
If you do use them, what do you use them for and why do you not just use hard drives, SSDs or USB thumb drives instead?
This is not a hate post. My whole existence is living in the 90's, so... :P
I mentioned it to my partner the other day but medical contraceptive packaging looks remarkably similar to how storage media was packaged in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Take the logos off and play a game of DVDs or Plan B?
Sure! First prize: a cracked Grand Theft Auto 3 Second prize: strawberry flavored
I have a small library of music CDs, because I liked music before there was an internet. I recently ripped them to .FLACC.
BD-Rs for cold storage, they are cheaper than HDDs/SSDs and offer a fast solution to clear up space from existing hot storage without actually getting rid of the data. USB sticks are not suitable for archival, they degrade very soon.
And they also easily become bricked and unusable... Discs definitely are reliable. :)
Yep, I'm using m-discs blu ray for storage of some of my data because I'm afraid of bit flips that I can't detect. I had this happen already with images that got destroyed without me noticing.
Fuck bud I still use floppy disks. It's damn hard to find a pc with a dedicated floppy drive. Those usb floppy drives fail writing to floppy more often than not.
Yes, I use them to store data that I just need to read. I also rip my DVDs
We have a spindle of CD-Rs. I wish it was DVDs! We'd have a use for DVDs! It's WAY easier to just burn a Linux ISO than it is to faff about with a USB stick. Less convoluted to boot from, too (hybrid ISOs are a bit cursed; it doesn't matter if you're doing the usual pure "overwrite the entire stick" thing, but it's not great if you're also using the drive for other stuff – that's not an issue with DVD[-+]Rs, they come in packs and each individual disc is cheap enough it's one disc per thing).
Wee do have a couple OpenBSD install CDs. We don't use them enough to be super useful. But a Debian install DVD? I'd use that.
-- Frost
I still have some and I burned music on them.
physical media has a place with collectors and appreciators and i hope that doesn't ever stop being true
its resistant to censorship and it gives creators a thing to sell
Tru.
I used to have one of those little joke .exe files called Cupholder. If you clicked on it, it opened the CD drive.
😂 legendary
Backing up my movie collection to hard copies mostly. I also make mix cds for my friends if i find out they sill use cds. I got an external read/write drive in 8th grade and its still kicking butt. I also have a 360 on my retro shelf, but i mostly just use the external drive or local files.
You are a gold mine to your friends! :D
I have a stack of blank CD-Rs. I mostly bought them for running homebrew and import games on my Dreamcast. Recently I did find some old PC games that wouldn't work under WINE, so I ended up using some of the CD-Rs to reinstall Windows XP on my Thinkpad T60. That took 8 discs.
Holy shit this comment unlocked stuff in me. You can't just carelessly throw around terms like "Dreamcast", " Windows XP" and "that took 8 discs".
I use them to burn DVD's that I can play on my PS5. I rip discs more than I burn them but sometimes I'll make a copy of a rare disc or an .iso I found online.
What's your latest rare find that you made a copy of? :D
Some obscure South African CD's that no one outside SA knows about. I have a strange fascination with South African rock music.
Rarely; I think the last time was a live CD to try Linux on an older computer
