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[–] teft@piefed.social 54 points 3 months ago

Mine was probably FCKGW-RHQQ2-i forget the rest of the key.

[–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Last week for me. I burned a FreeDOS 1.4 CD to install it on my recently acquired Pentium 4 desktop.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I'd have still used a thumb drive at this point. I/O is way better.

[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I am not sure if old P4 machines have the BIOS support for USB booting. I know newer chipsets will.

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 5 points 3 months ago

Plop go brrr. I used it on my windows me laptopto install Damn small Linux

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[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 31 points 3 months ago

I’ll go burn a cd right meow. Idgaf.

[–] yuri@pawb.social 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

~10 years ago i bought one of those sony cd players with the giant carousel that holds like 200 discs. i probably spent a week burning entire discographies.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They still made them 10 years ago, or are you misremembering? 😁

I recall a friend bought one in the early 2000's, which is like twenty years ago (ouch, that hurts).

[–] yuri@pawb.social 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

thrift store find! i had to replace the belt that opens the door, but other than that it works perfectly ^^

[–] calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

That is very cool!

[–] tightwad@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Jokes on you. I just burned a cd for my kids car. Yes he has a cd/tape deck.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I still have a spool of 100 fresh discs plus a dozen RWs.

that day is yet to come.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The Initial D soundtrack so I could listen to it in my 90's Toyota Corolla.
This was in 2019.

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago

I still do it though.

I also just ripped a CD last night.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was Massive Attack Mezzanine and the cd is still in my old car for all I know.

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[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Does it have to be a CD? Can't it be a DVD?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

without even realizing it

staring intensely at the CD-R drive

"Come on baby, you've got at least one more in you!"

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[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Mine was "Irene's boot CD" so I could reset my friends windows 10 admin password he forgot.

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[–] lauha@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just yesterday I burned a cd to listen to in our 2004 corolla. Pretty sure it wasn't the last.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

A university elective, Games programming. Had an open ended "make a game and write report on how it shows the learning outcomes of the unit".

I made a tiny game, just basic triangles shooting squares at each other on the ps1. I developed and tested with an emulator, but to demo for grading I burnt it to a CD and brought in my ps1

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Jokes on you, I just bought an old ass dell optiplex. That shit came with a cd drive. I actually didn't even check to see if it would burn tho. And I don't have a CD player. But I could! Probably...

[–] Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fuck this sharpie ad. And fuck donald trump

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah it was like maybe a few months ago when Fit For An Autopsy came out with their new CD. When the next one comes out, I'm gonna do it again.

I burned a CD a few weeks ago to listen to in my truck.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

It wasn't that long ago. I've been trying Linux distros on my old laptop that can't boot from the USB drive.

[–] Maxxus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Would have been circa 2006, a fully loaded Windows XP SP2 + hotixes all-in-one installation CD, because I had to reinstall XP on my and friends and family I did tech support for every 6 to 9 months. Otherwise it would gum up and start having unfixable performance or outright faults.

I saw Vista on the horizon and said fuck that shit. Created an Ubuntu install bootable USB drive and dropped all tech support. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to install Linux from scratch. I use Arch btw.

[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 6 points 3 months ago

Me, burning my last CD for a school project: “I am for sure never doing this again” checkmate atheists

[–] null@lemmy.org 6 points 3 months ago

It was probably some crap you would put on a flash drive since I didn't have a flash drive at the time.

I'm still burning DVDs of my pirated movies I downloaded

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

speak of CDS (and optical media/physical media?) Fun fact: there are still Video games/Music (even as new as 2025 and soon 2026) distributed in CDS,DVDS and vinyl.
so optical media/physical media are not Dying anytime soon.
(unless you count Blu-rays/Cartridges too,but its only mainly used as a download script on consoles though)

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't bet on it, I just brought an old windows XP 32 bit back up and running just the other day because it didn't support anything but CD and network boot probably DVD too but I didn't check because all I had was blank CD's I had to install some odd Linux because nothing else would fit on the CD and run 32bit.

[–] MrHarbinger@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Last CD I burned was about a month ago, "As in Gardens, So in Tombs" by ...And Oceans. My car only has a CD player but pretty decent speakers, perfect for the road.

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

a bootleg copy of windows XP to downgrade from vista on a weak laptop

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

CD - About 8 years ago for plop boot manager, which I last used a few months ago.
DVD - 3 Years ago for a PS2 game, but now I use mx4sio.
Blu-ray - A few months ago to jailbreak a ps5.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

Probably Ubuntu 20.04 before I figured out how to use USB sticks.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I was having a slow day at work and stumbled onto some old blank CD-Rs. I burned a few Symphony X CDs for my friend. This was in like 2022.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I thought that point in time had passed for me but a friend of mine is a bit of a technophobe and I wanted to share an extremely rare music album with him. So I burned another CD a few weeks ago... good thing I decided to keep my Blu-ray combo drive for just such an occasion.

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[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Mine was 30 CDs at the end of high school containing a video of the photo compilation from the class album.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I made a 15th anniversary "mix tape" on a CD like, a couple months ago? And they're useful in my car, so ... that's probably not the last time.

Although! Aside from music, the last use might be in high school when I used to sell bootleg anime to rich kids at the school. Lol

Pretty sure my last burn was a tool album. Pretty sure it was 10000 Days.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I remember when: 2017. Burned the latest South Park season to DVD for my sister's boyfriend at the time because they didn't have internet nor a flash drive handy.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

I could go burn another one right now. Flash drives are just easier and less wasteful.

[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, probably some PS2 game, or a elfboot for it

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

It was a version of Ubuntu Server. I don't know what one I think 2012?

[–] YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 4 points 3 months ago

I can't remember the last CD, but I burned a boot disk for Mint Cinnamon onto a DVD-R not long ago.

[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

I burned some mix cds for a 90s themed birthday party a few months ago. Those CDRs had been sitting in a spindle in my attic for 20 years and still worked!

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