I miss Zip drives.
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Circa 2017, I build my first desktop computer, I get the cheapest disc drive money can buy. Since then I've used it to burn one(1) CD. Any software disc I've tried using with it was too broken and out of date, leading me to download the driver instead.
I've tried using a friend's game disc on it, assuring them that Wine for Linux supports 16-bit Windows games. Turns out they dropped that support months prior.
It now stands its silent vigil, waiting for its purpose to be truly fulfilled.
According to the Internet, wine 11 added 16 bit support back in for 64 bit systems.
“Buffer underrun.”
When I was 10 or 11 I once stole a shitload of blank cds from the church my father was the pastor of so that I could burn pirated audiobooks to listen to at night.
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Still doing it today. Its not an old thing. I have hundreds of Cds. Best form of physical media for me.
Especially with insanity HDD costs. I did the math, and while ridiculous, buying blank DVDs vs a 12 tb hard drive is only minimally more expensive and discs last longer. HDDs die all the time.
Obviously I still use drives but disks are definitely viable especially as data centers continue to ruin everything.
used to have a bunch of DVDs with my favourite shows. but I kept them on a spindle and didn't look at them for years, only to find out they had all become unreadable
I keep hearing this but Ive yet to find an unreadable disk. I think they are way more robust than most think. Same with vhs. Never had an issue even after being stores in non climate controlled storages for years.
Meanwhile ive had dozens of HDDs and sdds die.
Just 2 years ago i got 3 DOA Wd red HDDs. The nice ones, not cheapo seagates barracudas. Those are shit.
Funnily enough I have a Seagate constellation which is supposed to be trash and its over 6 years old now. Maybe more.
maybe if you store them better than I did they dont become unreadable son quickly. personally I've sadly not much luck with them. Thankfully it did push me to find new encodes of the shows and I got much better quality replacements for most of them
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Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch, I was there when it was written.
I was referring to vinyl records sold in stores. That stuff is definitely copy written. I’ve never taped any radio stuff before so I don’t know the legality of that stuff.
Not burning DVDs
Digital Nazis know no bounds