Im just wondering what was the last dvd or cd you burned and what was it for? So you all still use dvds or cds? or have you found a alternative media?
Haha I talked to my kids about burning CDs in the way of talking about old tech they’ve never encountered. They wanted a CD burner after that to try it out, so I found an external USB burner and a cheapo little boom box. They ended up downloading songs from our media server and some stuff from NewGrounds and burning a bunch of mix CDs. It was fun!
That sounds like a fun activity to do, neat idea.
I’ve been on a retro kick. Recently I’ve been messing with a Pentium 233 MMX. I burned a tinycore Linux CD a couple days ago so I could make this:
I burned 4 low quality kids movies on a disk for the dvd player in my wife’s SUV.
Of course they all have devices now and access to jellyfin
A PS2 game to test FreeDVDBoot on the PS2 Slim https://youtu.be/ez0y-hz3VuM
Mine was a live CD of Ubuntu about 3 years ago. It was an older computer and the front USB ports weren’t plugged in so no USB drive.
Man, it felt like maybe an entire generation ago since I felt I last needed discs for any level of pirating.
The last time I used one was just to get some linux distros to install when the USB flash method wasn’t working.
DVD was to make a physical media of streaming content for a relative who doesn’t use technology but wanted to watch it. This would’ve been about 5 years ago ish since we don’t see them much anymore.
CD was about 3 years ago for my car since its head unit didn’t have car play. We’ve since purchased an iPod 7th gen to do the job.
I sell my own fanart/merch at video game conventions as a side hustle & last year I burned 100 CDs of D&B/Jungle/Happy Hardcore music and handed them out to anyone that bought $50+ worth of stuff. Everyone thought it was awesome. I actually bumped into one of the guys I handed a CD to at another convention a few weeks ago and he told me I inspired him to burn his own CDs. Which was very validating lol
CT Scan imagery. Apparently medical clinics have finally graduated from faxes to optical media. This was in 2025.
The last DVD burned was a release candidate for Debian buster. The last CD was a full i386 install of OpenBSD 6.4 for a ThinkPad T43p. Both happened in the last decade (2010’s).
I’ve ripped several music CD’s and movie DVD’s since then, but using it as a storage device just isn’t a thing any more.
Dvd (+/-)r for an Xbox 360. I don’t personally use the media often, but I do like blessing friends if they ask.
I burned SM64 to a cd the other day because I was testing the psx port (doesn’t work on real hardware yet). I use optical media all the time.
Probably like a dreamcast game or a mixtape for the car
I just bought 3 used dvds yesterday, haven’t burned them yet. I bought a CD last year, and I burned it… it was an album of Rihanna’s greatest hits
I recently purchased an older vehicle that came with a standard CD player and no AUX input. Setting down to plan and burn a dozen CD-Rs was quite nostalgic. I was surprised the local mega-mart actually had them in stock.
