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?

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[–] The_Helmet_Stays_On@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

Last CD was probably back in 2011 and was Rise Against - Appeal to Reason and the last game I burned was probably back in 2009 and was Kingdom hearts 2. Have moved on to having “backups” on my HDD or getting them on Steam.

[–] rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago

I don't think I ever burned a DVD (did rip some), but was making copies of my CDs for use in my car up to about 2010 before I got into the mp3 player game. Then it was just ripping. Still would be ripping, but no longer have a drive for that. That computer ate it a few years ago. I should have been more proactive. Maybe will borrow the one from work that has a Jimmy Buffet disc in it.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I bought an external DVD burner and a small pack of DVDs in 2023. Pretty sure I was burning gparted or some other recovery type LiveCD. It was some sort of Hail Mary on a retro project, or something.

But yeah, optical media bad.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

I mean death to the streaming companies, but yeah I don't really miss optical media at all. My truck in high school you'd literally open up the door and CDs would be spilling out all over the damn pavement. They talk about distracted driving with the screens in modern day cars, but let's actually talk about you flipping through pages and pages in those darn pouch books trying to find the CD you were after, back in the day. Now that was OG distracted driving.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

Probably me trying to find the right Dreamcast game file a few weeks ago to burn to CD because I saw on a forum that you can supposedly play it without needing the maraca controllers. The burn worked, but the game didn't, not even using the utopia disc I burned about a month ago. So, I probably messed up.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

oh man. totally don't remember. I wish they were more robust and lasted longer as there is tons I would do if it was less common for them to die when sitting around.

[–] ptc075@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

About 6-7 years ago. I had a friend who still had some files on a 5-1/4 floppy. I kept an old Win95 PC specifically with a bunch of old drive types and a DVD burner, so I could rescue old files & move them to DVD. Sadly, that PC stopped booting about 2 years ago. I did consider trying to resurrect it, but neither of my current PCs even have a built-in DVD drive, so I think it's safe to say that moving files to DVD isn't moving the files forward enough anymore.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago

Dvd (+/-)r for an Xbox 360. I don't personally use the media often, but I do like blessing friends if they ask.

[–] PMP@aussie.zone 1 points 11 hours ago

It has been so long that recently I borrowed a portable DVD drive to extract auto diagnostic software, completely forgetting I have a laptop with a DVD drive.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Pretty sure it was MacOS install media. Probably a decade ago or so.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

2018/2019 map update for a 2003 Mercedes. Didn't work though, probably bad optical drive or something.

[–] jaek@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

I burnt a freedvdboot disc yesterday to flash a freemcboot memory card for my PS2.

That's the first time I've burnt a disc since I chipped my PS1 in ~2018

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 points 8 hours ago

I was debating just now burning a DBAN disk just to use the ancient HP I recovered to wipe old IDE hard disks.

That idea broke down when when I realized that the ribbon connector was actual floppy and there was no IDE connector.

It broke down further when I tested the optical drive with another disk to see if I could stubbornly use it with a USB IDE adapter. The drive didn't seem to spin up and I'm not wasting my time burning a drive when I have other options.

I finally grabbed a Linux Mint live USB and another computer. I'm supposedly running shred on the drive, but I forgot to include output so I'll just know when I get back in to work Monday. Top does say shred is using processor cycles, so I guess it's fine.

[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 1 points 7 hours ago

Last burned a PS4 jailbreak bluray 😏

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