As you are doing it you never realize
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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.I owned Win95 on floppy. That was a hell of an install. 11 disks?
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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.
Man you ain’t lying about having random songs on them. I’m always equally impressed and disturbed by some of the CDs I’ve made in the past.
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Hah I knew it exactly. 2019 when my university required to hand in all (raw) data used for creating my thesis on a CD or DVD. I had to buy a new one of these things where you get like 50 disks stacked on a stick (to use 3 of them) and had to borrow my mom's old laptop, because it was the only one available with a dvd drive. I knew it then and I've been right since then: This was the last time.
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Hah I knew it exactly. 2019 when my university required to hand in all (raw) data used for creating my thesis on a CD or DVD. I had to buy a new one of these things where you get like 50 disks stacked on a stick (to use 3 of them) and had to borrow my mom's old laptop, because it was the only one available with a dvd drive. I knew it then and I've been right since then: This was the last time.
I think for me it was before I moved counties and my disc was full so I put all my torrents on a couple DVDs. Early 2009.
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Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.
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I'm pretty sure I'm also done with USB sticks.
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I'm pretty sure I'm also done with USB sticks.
I don't have a serial data cable (or ports for one on my PC) so USB stick is the only way to get my .stl files to my 3D printer to actually print stuff.
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I don't have a serial data cable (or ports for one on my PC) so USB stick is the only way to get my .stl files to my 3D printer to actually print stuff.
Ok, I don't have a 3d printer. Yet.
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Huh, I just got blank CDs yesterday.
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Huh, I just got blank CDs yesterday.
I'm wasting untold amounts of optical media on trying to install a FOSS OS on an iMac G5. PPC64be is a pain in the ass nowadays
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I'm pretty sure I'm also done with USB sticks.
I still use them in my car. Car has no cd or cassette player. And can't afford to use cellular data to stream music from my phone
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I don't have a serial data cable (or ports for one on my PC) so USB stick is the only way to get my .stl files to my 3D printer to actually print stuff.
What printer do you have? If it has a (micro) USB port, you can most likely set up OctoPi on a raspberry pi, connect the Pi to your printer and print over the network.
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I don't even have a device with an optical reader
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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 🥰
Can you daisy chain those?
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I'm pretty sure I'm also done with USB sticks.
So how do you install operating systems?
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So how do you install operating systems?
The operating system is already there when I buy the device.
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Actually about to reverse course on this one. As a data hoarder, bluray as cold storage seem like a sensible solution.
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Actually about to reverse course on this one. As a data hoarder, bluray as cold storage seem like a sensible solution.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]How? It is pretty sensitive to weather and decay. Why not tapes?
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How? It is pretty sensitive to weather and decay. Why not tapes?
Well, most media is sensitive to one thing or another. I chose discs mostly because of convenience and cost per byte. I also believe I can control temperature and make copies often enough to last.
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Well, most media is sensitive to one thing or another. I chose discs mostly because of convenience and cost per byte. I also believe I can control temperature and make copies often enough to last.
If you are doing long term storage (5+ years) i'm pretty sure that tapes win on costs
