Mine was probably FCKGW-RHQQ2-i forget the rest of the key.
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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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Last week for me. I burned a FreeDOS 1.4 CD to install it on my recently acquired Pentium 4 desktop.
I mean, I'd have still used a thumb drive at this point. I/O is way better.
I am not sure if old P4 machines have the BIOS support for USB booting. I know newer chipsets will.
Plop go brrr. I used it on my windows me laptopto install Damn small Linux
I’ll go burn a cd right meow. Idgaf.
~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.
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).
thrift store find! i had to replace the belt that opens the door, but other than that it works perfectly ^^
That is very cool!
Jokes on you. I just burned a cd for my kids car. Yes he has a cd/tape deck.
I still have a spool of 100 fresh discs plus a dozen RWs.
that day is yet to come.
The Initial D soundtrack so I could listen to it in my 90's Toyota Corolla.
This was in 2019.
I still do it though.
I also just ripped a CD last night.
It was Massive Attack Mezzanine and the cd is still in my old car for all I know.
without even realizing it
staring intensely at the CD-R drive
"Come on baby, you've got at least one more in you!"
Mine was "Irene's boot CD" so I could reset my friends windows 10 admin password he forgot.
Just yesterday I burned a cd to listen to in our 2004 corolla. Pretty sure it wasn't the last.
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
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...
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.
It wasn't that long ago. I've been trying Linux distros on my old laptop that can't boot from the USB drive.
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.
Me, burning my last CD for a school project: “I am for sure never doing this again” checkmate atheists
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
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)
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.
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.
a bootleg copy of windows XP to downgrade from vista on a weak laptop
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.
Probably Ubuntu 20.04 before I figured out how to use USB sticks.
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.
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.
Mine was 30 CDs at the end of high school containing a video of the photo compilation from the class album.
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.
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.
I could go burn another one right now. Flash drives are just easier and less wasteful.
Yeah, probably some PS2 game, or a elfboot for it
It was a version of Ubuntu Server. I don't know what one I think 2012?
I can't remember the last CD, but I burned a boot disk for Mint Cinnamon onto a DVD-R not long 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!