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I remember burning cds with songs I got from limewire back in the day. Takes me back
There was also a software to burn pictures in the disc via the burn patterns. There's a open source project now but it didn't work for me.
Edit: i don't mean the label side but the data side. But has similiar problems with supported players.
The first laptop I bought had a DVD burner which came with support for LightScribe, which required discs with a special coating. You designed a cover, put the disc in your drive upside down and it would burn the image into the disc. You could only do grayscale as far as I know, but I still thought it was pretty neat at the time.
It's called cdimage
And it worked for me: https://lemmy.world/post/30813500
I am linking through lemmy.world because SDF isn't doing all too well.
there is very little support for lemmy at sdf. one of the nodes has had a hardware failure and will need to be replaced. the nodes are also in need of new fans and larger disks, but that requires support.
I had one of those "LightScribe" burners. I think I only used it a couple of times because the media was much more expensive than standard CD-R and I didn't care enough to get good at it. It was just a slow extra step when I'm trying to burn a quick cd before I head to the bus stop in the morning.
Funnily, burning the lightscribe cd was faster than the first mp3 player I had. My first mp3 player was a Creative something or other with 32mb of storage. Adding the ~15 songs you could fit on it took fucking donkey's years.
Those need special blank cd’s
Ay. Light Bright
Burning CD'S aside, does she think we did this to get a text? 🤣🤣 this shit was before mobile phone were a thing, and when you had one as a teen you still couldn't afford to text for hours on end
and when you had one as a teen you still couldn't afford to text for hours on end
And neither could my parents as it turned out
Yes, with fire. The Romans originally tried it, which is what led to Nero accidentally burning down ROMe.
I miss Nero. It was a great at burning things.
Never knew that was a history reference.
Go to jail
I had this application that would print a CD shaped stickers. I could upload and design any background, and add text with any font. It was when computers peaked.
Well, in a way you could say we used the equivalent of concentrated sunlight.
We Gen Z get called "the first digital kids" but I clearly remember the last days of physical and optical media. My sister and I would burn CDs with songs we would download from LimeWire.
Pysical is not the opposite of digital.
Analog is the opposite of digital.
A CD is a digital medium, just like an SSD is.
If you want a rotating disk medium which is analog, you would need to get a vinyl.
Haha yeah, I think SpiceDealer's comment inadvertently supports the notion it's meant to dispel.
But to be fair, the media world has been using the word "digital" to mean "electronic delivery" for a long time.
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Yeah, like Nero ... burning Rom(e).
Not once did I consider why it was called Nero.
I had that same eye opening moment with Tinder.
I totally get that. Took me a while too and then I felt so dumb, because their logo was the colosseum in flames and everything made so much sense in hindsight.
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Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor
I think i've still never been more impressed by a program name since. you're literally "Burning ROM"...
Nero Burning ROM .. such a good name ah
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Fun fact: It actually is kind of burning. With a laser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Writing_methods
Not enough to set it on fire, but enough to change a dye from translucent to opaque.
I still burn dvds with movies I like for them ☺️
And burning cd/dvd's is getting more popular due to disappearing content on streaming services. Some shows got removed and are no longer available to watch elsewhere legally. Such a shame.
I took a class on DVD creation back in the day, how to write the menus and link tracks and whatnot.
Time to shake off the ‘ol bootleg machine.
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being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
They use AI, which feeds them some bullshit story instead.
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Wait, there's no red laser symbol in Unicode?
Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
I have not yet met a young person who doesn't know what a CD is. I feel like the internet has pranked me.
It was them, wasn't it? The kids. They started this rumor did they not? They're laughing at us right now, aren't they? They're reading this comment and they know I fell for it.
The other day my cousin asked what blu-ray was. I felt so old.
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