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[–] homes@piefed.world 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

What’s stopping me is that I haven’t had a CD burner in like 12 or 15 years. But you’re right about the rest of it.

[–] exu@feditown.com 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

A tiny laser and steady hands should work

[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t have those, either, lol

[–] GTKashi@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Very small pickaxe?

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

External USB ones are free in boxes of Frosted Flakes these days.

I have a genuine honest to goodness 5.25" bay mounted Blu Ray burner in my tower right now. Hey, you never friggin' know. It comes in handy every once in a while. There's a machine in my basement with an LS-120, a Zip drive, and a 5.25" floppy drive in it that all still work. Occasionally I still find myself needing to get some monumentally important ancient file off of some kind of floppy disk or other for somebody.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I was soo excited about ls120. Zip drive capacity in a 1.44 MB disc format with backwards compatibility. How could it not become the next big thing?

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Because it made that noise.

[–] homes@piefed.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Lol, oh I know. I just really never liked burning CDs anyway. I had a mini disc player, lol.

[–] krisevol@lemmus.org 1 points 5 hours ago

They still sell them