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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Last week isn't really that long ago. Going through my mom's old things and found a PC she bought new back in 2013. A Dell Optiplex 790 with a dvdrw in it.

I just happened to have a couple of blanks so I verified that it worked before pulling it out and using it as an external drive. Works that way as well on my much newer Ryzen 5800x build in a case with no 5.25" bays. (Or externally accessed 3.5s for that matter. No external bays of any sort other than some USB ports on the front.)

My 2006 Honda also has a 6 disc changer and it sounds better than the Bluetooth adapter I connected to it. (It is wired to the back of the factory sound system, but Bluetooth audio just sounds flat to me, even on the best speakers)

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[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 3 points 4 days ago

I was just thinking "I need to burn some music CDs for when I travel", just in case.

I went on a car trip earlier this year, but forgot my bluetooth to aux adapter. I tried to buy one while I was on the road, but places were sold out, didn't carry them, or they only sold them via online orders.

As luck would have it, I still had some old CDs I'd burned 20ish years ago sitting in my glove compartment! I honestly did not expect them to work because they'd likely spent at least the last decade+ in that glove compartment, enduring extremes of heat and cold. They were scratched to hell and back and I had always heard that they degrade and become unreadable after a certain amount of time, even under ideal storage conditions.

Luckily for me, though, they mostly worked. I think there were a couple of songs on one disc that skipped a bunch, and everything else played fine. I rediscovered a few great songs from my youth that I'd not heard in so long that I'd practically forgotten about them.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Happened around 2010. Trust me I remember.

My gen Z kids burn CDs - it's a "retro" thing for them. Literally burnt one last week.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

My last ISO was hirens boot CD. Shit like me test and whatnot

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Why is this written in the past tense?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I burned an Active Shooter video for work last week. I got a lot of spare discs. Might be a good way to store copies of everything the fascists are deleting.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I knew. I had been meaning to buy an aftermarket car stereo with USB and MP3 support for a long time. I was on my last blank CD, and had to decide then whether I would buy more CDs, or whether I would buy a new stereo that didn't need CDs.

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I burned two DVDs yesterday. First time in almost a decade, but it made me wonder why I don’t do it more often. I still have 98 blank DVDs on a spool purchased years ago.

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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago

Burnt one recently for a profile backup on a terminated user.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You can go burn a CD and know that it would be the last time. Not only is it not yet dead, it is still pretty widely used.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I burnt about 100 disks last year as an offsite, nuclear resistant backup... though, if nuclear war broke out, that would be the least of my worries

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[–] CyberTailor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I still store offsite backups on CD and DVD disks

[–] dani@veganism.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@CheeseToastie

Maybe there'll be a revival in twenty years or so 😁

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 days ago

Haha maybe! Like with vinyl

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago
[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

While reading this subject line kids these days will be wondering 'why we are lighting metallic disks on fire'.

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