Im just wondering what was the last dvd or cd you burned and what was it for? So you all still use dvds or cds? or have you found a alternative media?
I just bought 3 used dvds yesterday, haven’t burned them yet. I bought a CD last year, and I burned it… it was an album of Rihanna’s greatest hits
Man, it felt like maybe an entire generation ago since I felt I last needed discs for any level of pirating.
The last time I used one was just to get some linux distros to install when the USB flash method wasn’t working.
I burned 4 low quality kids movies on a disk for the dvd player in my wife’s SUV.
Of course they all have devices now and access to jellyfin
I’ve been on a retro kick. Recently I’ve been messing with a Pentium 233 MMX. I burned a tinycore Linux CD a couple days ago so I could make this:
A PS2 game to test FreeDVDBoot on the PS2 Slim https://youtu.be/ez0y-hz3VuM
DVD was to make a physical media of streaming content for a relative who doesn’t use technology but wanted to watch it. This would’ve been about 5 years ago ish since we don’t see them much anymore.
CD was about 3 years ago for my car since its head unit didn’t have car play. We’ve since purchased an iPod 7th gen to do the job.
The last DVD burned was a release candidate for Debian buster. The last CD was a full i386 install of OpenBSD 6.4 for a ThinkPad T43p. Both happened in the last decade (2010’s).
I’ve ripped several music CD’s and movie DVD’s since then, but using it as a storage device just isn’t a thing any more.
Haha I talked to my kids about burning CDs in the way of talking about old tech they’ve never encountered. They wanted a CD burner after that to try it out, so I found an external USB burner and a cheapo little boom box. They ended up downloading songs from our media server and some stuff from NewGrounds and burning a bunch of mix CDs. It was fun!
That sounds like a fun activity to do, neat idea.
CT Scan imagery. Apparently medical clinics have finally graduated from faxes to optical media. This was in 2025.
Probably like a dreamcast game or a mixtape for the car
I recently purchased an older vehicle that came with a standard CD player and no AUX input. Setting down to plan and burn a dozen CD-Rs was quite nostalgic. I was surprised the local mega-mart actually had them in stock.
I had a car stereo like this and I soldered a 3.5mm jack to where the audio comes into the main board from the CD player. The pins were even labelled.
A CD had to be playing for the amplifier section to be activated, so I burned a CD of silence that I made in Audacity. 👍
This is a memory trip haha! I never had to do this because I had cars with cassette decks, but folks with newer cars (maybe 07 or so?) were doing this. Auto forum days.
My car has a CD player also, and burning CDs is certainly more convenient than using the cassette player. (I did purchase the car new, but I guess I’ve had it a while)
Do the cars also lack radio? Bluetooth to radio transmitters have been around and are decent
I…I have never heard of these. Unfortunately, the car’s antenna was damaged years ago, so I’d have to work the corroded, broken remains out of the socket before attaching a new one. Might do this, thanks.
Where I live there are few unused radio frequencies.
And if you drive for 20 minutes to another region you’ll find that whatever frequency you were on is being used…
I doubt that’s a problem in the USA though.I forgot ppl live in denser areas, definitely not an issue here, Id have to change the station every 2-3 hours of driving
Gotta be easier to use a 10$ bluetooth to radio transmitter?
I’m no audiophile; but I’d rather jam toothpicks in my ears.
So you never tried it?
I used to work at a car audio store. I’ve installed literal hundreds of them. I guess it’s better than nothing; but I would almost rather sing to myself. The only decent ones are the ones that physically plug inline with your antenna. The broadcast style are so limited in power that they don’t work very well with the crowded local FM band (I swear some of these stations are broadcasting way above their limit)
I guess I am probably pickier than most when it comes to sound quality.
I burnt a Windows 7 install disc about a month ago. A guy I work with found his old PC and wanted a fresh install so he could give it to someone.
I discovered Ventoy about a week ago…
I burned a custom johnny cash cd for my mom using some of her favorites. She played it for about 9 years before accidentally leaving it in the cd player when she sold her old car
Cool stuff. I did that with a USB stick which is objectively better but has less swag (as it is smaller lol)
Last year a friend of mine was feeling romantic and wanted to give a physical audio disc to a crush. It’s not a mixtape but still …
I had a college sports team reunion and several teammates asked for a copy of a championship game. I still had the digital file, so posted it in a Dropbox thinking that would be easy enough for people whose hobbies don’t involve computers.
Nope, I was spending too much time on tech support so offered flash drives with video files.
Nope, still too much for two teammates so after a phone call to understand what tech they had at home and were comfortable with, I burned them each DVDs.
It didn’t get that far, but I was prepared to use my library’s digital-to-VHS-to-digital workstation to copy them an old-timey VHS tape if the DVDs didn’t work. The library even has a stash of never-unwrapped VHS tapes they’ll sell you.
