As you are doing it you never realize
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Amusingly, I think I remember some of my last ones, though maybe not my absolute final one.
For the most part, I'd already moved away from CDs, but I got a job driving vans which didn't have Bluetooth or an aux port. I ended up burning a few mp3 CDs für that job some time in late 2014.
Fun fact: one of those CDs contained brony music which I accidentally left in my van one night. I came into work the next day to hear it blaring on the warehouse speakers until I heard someone saying "what is this?" before changing the CD.
The drivers were all talking about it during lunch and I sat there quietly, amused by them trying to figure it out
I'm assuming you've moved on, but if not, there are FM transmitters for when you want music or navigation instructions from your phone to play over the vehicle's speakers. Bluetooth or 3.5mm jack ones are both available.
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And one day, a few years later, I threw away my opened package of unwritten raw CDs and DVDs.
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I did or i atleast believe that then was the last time, you never know.
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And one day, a few years later, I threw away my opened package of unwritten raw CDs and DVDs.
I still remember doing the same thing
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I've written to a CD last year.
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I haven't burned my last one yet
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I still have a BD-RE drive in my current setup. It almost never sees any use, but it's definitely nice to have the option should I ever require it.
Same. I plan to burn some backup blu rays to free up space in the next year or so
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For the last several years of me burning discs, they were all Ubuntu live dvds. I believe the last one was Ubuntu 18.04.
Yup. I tossed out a whole sleeve of them things a couple years ago. New burn every time. Then I saved them ... because ... um ... nothing.
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Sabine was talking about possible petabyte discs being on the horizon. Those might be worth burning some day in the future.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_yxsJuOMY&pp=ygUNcGV0YWJ5dGUgZGlzYw%3D%3D
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I recently tried. Didn't work. Don't know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted.
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I'm assuming you've moved on, but if not, there are FM transmitters for when you want music or navigation instructions from your phone to play over the vehicle's speakers. Bluetooth or 3.5mm jack ones are both available.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Oh god yeah you're bringing back some memories there
So I already knew they were a thing, but annoyingly on some of the vans there was only a single 12v socket, and we had to use that socket to plug in the navigation system/manifest.
So CDs were the easier choice until I got hold of one of those 12v splitters.
The one I had was far bulkier than the one shown.
A lot of the time it didn't matter anyway because people don't take care of the vans so a lot of the guys played their shit in the loading bays at full volume and would regularly blow the speakers out.
Sometimes I was going out with a Bluetooth speaker jammed between the dash and windscreen.
I had 100 solutions, it seems. The CDs were just one of them
I taught one of my friends to drive. She now has her first car - a 15 year old Mini - so now she has my old FM transmitter 🥰
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And one day, a few years later, I threw away my opened package of unwritten raw CDs and DVDs.
Still feels like a waste. But my spool was just taking up space.
I regret it, it was dozens of disks, and yet haven't needed a CD since.
Although I do still use DVDs on occasion.
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hey ^^ time to listen to some brony music
i totally forgot that exists 
If you haven't kept up, I'd recommend some of the "Ponies at Dawn" albums
Recollections was one of my favourites. Some absolute bangers on there
https://poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/recollections
Ignite starts off insanely strong as well
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Oh god yeah you're bringing back some memories there
So I already knew they were a thing, but annoyingly on some of the vans there was only a single 12v socket, and we had to use that socket to plug in the navigation system/manifest.
So CDs were the easier choice until I got hold of one of those 12v splitters.
The one I had was far bulkier than the one shown.
A lot of the time it didn't matter anyway because people don't take care of the vans so a lot of the guys played their shit in the loading bays at full volume and would regularly blow the speakers out.
Sometimes I was going out with a Bluetooth speaker jammed between the dash and windscreen.
I had 100 solutions, it seems. The CDs were just one of them
I taught one of my friends to drive. She now has her first car - a 15 year old Mini - so now she has my old FM transmitter 🥰
I hope she enjoys the Mini! Though at this point that's a fairly modern car. 15 years old is 2010 and many of those allow retrofitting factory options for sound. I'm looking to get Carplay in my brand new 18 year old German shitbox that's both falling apart and in excellent shape at the same time. Mr12volt has kits for a lot of those, but sadly no Minis.
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ive never burned a CD (I do use them for music though)
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ive never burned a CD (I do use them for music though)
It's never too late. Now, find a lighter...
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This is Lemmy bruh. We still be burning discs on the reg.
Seriously though, I still like to listen to CDs in my car. Something about making that perfect 20 song banger mixtape just hits different. And then slotting old CDs and having no idea what songs are on there but usually being pleasantly surprised. Spotify/Bluetooth is too easy and casual, I tend to pay more attention and enjoy the music more when listening to CDs.
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I recently tried. Didn't work. Don't know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted.
CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.
Spoken like a person who doesn't own a floppy drive.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
I'm just making a silly joke, of course, but I think there's enough temporal overlap between floppy drives and USB ports that it's accurate.
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Since I have to deal with an older system that has not yet been replaced (and isn't slated to be for a variety of reasons), combined with some security requirements that the clients IT team had put into place...
I still have blank CDs and have burned them relatively recently. Probably will be doing so again in about 2 months....
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I didn't really ever burn any CDs myself (though I have a few burnt ones). But just end of last year I ripped a CD
