I don’t know when it was specifically, but I know it was to make a music CD for my old car that could play MP3s off of CDs. 15 years ago, maybe?
It probably contained Linux
If I had to guess? Ubuntu Studio 14.04
I never knew that “road mix 17” was going to be the final release
I did or i atleast believe that then was the last time, you never know.
Until you find a reason to do it again. I burned a cd like last year because my car has a cd player.
I might just go and burn one more when I get home, just for the heck of it ;)
I was thinking the same but I realized I am not sure I have a computer with a CD drive or a mother board that supports my old IDE drive
I have though, just need to install a rom burning SW again :D
Nero burning ROM :)
That wouls be suitable for nostalgia’s sake, but I’ll probably go for xfburn or whatever that name was ;)
yeah, but i’m planning on that day being the future. gotta save all my music offline 💖
I don’t think that’s true. I have a 20+ year old iBook G3 that I keep around to tinker with Mac OS 7-9. The usb slots either don’t work, or at least don’t support newer usb drives, so it’s only a matter of time before I hop over to the Macintosh Garden and start burning discs again.
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.
lol I didn’t
Will there be a time where we will write to a USB stick for the last time?
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
So how do you install operating systems?
The operating system is already there when I buy the device.
Gross
Dude, for the future. I don’t have anything against Linux. I will probably switch myself in a couple of months. But if You want people to know about it, don’t be a jackass. Don’t be pretentious. You fucking asshole.
A slight overreaction to what is clearly a dumb joke maybe?
What?
The os that comes with the computer is either chrome os, windows, or Mac os. Ew
Windows, I ain’t buying apple shit. So what?
The only good operating system is this one
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.
Actually about to reverse course on this one. As a data hoarder, bluray as cold storage seem like a sensible solution.
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.
If you are doing long term storage (5+ years) i’m pretty sure that tapes win on costs
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll have a look at tape again and see where I end up.
Well yeah but I also ate for the last time until I’ll eat again this evening, right?
You can simply turn the last time into the not-last time at any point in the future
You say that, but eventually CDs will stop being produced.
Floppies still exist, but they are more and more difficult to find in the wild.
I don’t even have a device with an optical reader
