As you are doing it you never realize
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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
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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.
My co-worker's car was broken into while he was moving house. His cd collection was in the car and the only cd left was the one in the cd player. So we listened to who's next by the who all summer. Nothing quite like coming back from a rave at 6 in the morning with baba O'Riley blasting. The soundtrack to a perfect wasted summer.
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Will there be a time where we will write to a USB stick for the last time?
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Every person you meet will eventually be seen for the last time. It's odd how casual those departures can be.
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Yep, it was the 10th time i was attempting to burn a clients files to DVD’s. I swore i was never going through that again. Then after i got a successful burn prompt, i went to hit ok and a fatal error had occured, and lo and behold the burn failed after verification. Joined the Navy within the week.
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I thought about this a lot after the last time I saw this post. I am almost positive it was a The Prodigy mix that I made for myself. My little sister got a car with a CD drive in it as her first car and she asked for my old CDs and that's the latest one I can recall making.
Crazy to think that 10+ years after I made that CD now my little sister is listening to it haha. And I was already listening to many cd mixes my mom and father had given to me over the years. That CD case probably has illegally downloaded music burned to CDs from over 25 years ago in it. Not to mention several actual CDs that are probably almost 50 years old at this point. My father loved the classics and after he ripped his entire library to cram into his digital magic box he let a lot of the physical CDs go to his son's. at least 1 or two ended up on that cd case of mine.
