I don’t know why we called it burning. Fire was not involved. We could have just called it “copying.”
From the Wikipedia article.
A CD recorder writes data to a CD-R disc by pulsing its laser to heat areas of the organic dye layer. The writing process does not produce indentations (pits); instead, the heat permanently changes the optical properties of the dye, changing the reflectivity of those areas.
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.
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Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
Yeah, like Nero … burning Rom(e).
Well yes, the incantation typically involved calling upon the ghost of the Emperor Nero.
I had a cracked copy of Nero I used to pirate Dreamcast games.
Was a pretty good hustle for a bit
Not once did I consider why it was called Nero.
It was literally called Nero Burning ROM.
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.
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 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.
But if you ask them what burning a cd is I bet they think it’s setting them on fire, not writing data to the disk.
Not me, haha my father tought me those things from a young age.
But did he show you how cool it is to microwave them?
💿💿🥜🌰
Next tell her that that text we were waiting on was made with only numbers on our phones. Her brain my come out her nose.
No, but literally burning them was fun because of the colorful flames and smoke. And the burning lungs.
Spicy rainbow fires are the best.
Personalising CDs with 5 seconds in a microwave was always entertaining. I even got some tracks to “play” afterwards.
being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
Methinks she was pretending to not (know how to) know for the bants
quite possibly, not very well versed in the social media arts
Or rather didn’t particularly care, but found more fun in imagining more fantastical scenarios to entertain herself.
Google sucks.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a decade.
DuckDuckGo is basically just Bing with a bit more privacy and Bing search results suck too.
Dunno, ddg delivers what I need.
What do you use search engines for?
If it does was you need it to do you should definitely use it, privacy vise it’s obviously way better than google. Haven’t tried in in about 2 years, maybe the search results got better but the last time I tried it often presented me weird sites that technically contained the words I searched for but were completely irrelevant - entered the same question onto Google and immediately got me a stack overflow question that was practically the same question I had but phrased a bit differently. But as I said, maybe it’s no longer so bad as when I tried it.
For a long time I used DuckDuckGo for everything except specific error messages, because Google was better at those, but Google got more shitty and so did stack overflow, so I don’t bother much with Google anymore.
I’ve tried everything and I really really really can’t use Google. It just never gets me what I want. DDG works ok, and is usually my default because it’s fast and simple.
Recently (1 or 2 years) I’ve found Brave search to be fantastic though. You may want to disable the AI search summary (it’s better than Google’s or DDG’s ai stuff, but still ultimately ai). Now, I find myself reaching for brave search when I’m doing more serious searching. I have both DDG and Brave saved as search short cuts in librewolf. Highly recommend.
I got a usb cd burner online for $15 recently
I mean your laptop… oh right they can’t do that, not anymore.
What are the price of disks now?
$15 for 50 DVD-Rs on Amazon
I don’t know, I still have about 30 spare from the turn of the century.
I keep finding unused packs of 100 for like a buck at thrift stores I could make a few thousand copies of some b list Ashton Kutcher movie then shingle my house with them.
Idk I didn’t buy any hahaha
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”…
On the mac, there was Toast (it burns), and Nero had an ad that said that they “Eat Toast for Breakfast.”
What a great era for software branding.
DUDE
My.father burned thousands of CDs and DVDs to coax the old gods into giving him money. It took him 5 years to realize he was literally breaking even wasting hours a day. We had a hell of a dvd collection tho
That’s definitely peak dad energy. My dad would burn literally everything we rented, and later got through the mail from Netflix, even if he didn’t watch or care about the movie.
I think it just makes them feel powerful, rubbing it in the FBI warnings face.
I burnt a CD yesterday.
Win XPGXYPJ-4W67Q-6273F-QJ7FR-9MW4M
Is this an illegal number?
only illegal if Microsoft still supported XP.
Starcraft 1 - 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333(for some reason all 3s worked)
For StarCraft, the installer would do some math on all but the last number, then see if the result of that matched the last number to decide if the key was valid. So you could enter random numbers, then just retry while changing the last digit and guess a valid key in max 10 tries
Or 11 - the last digit could be X (for ten) if they were using the modulo 11 check digit system.
Same for Counter-Strike 1.6, but there it was
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
XCNF8-R99R9-R4XV8-2VQD7-FJP6M
This is how Elrond felt when someone spoke the words from the one ring.
Wasn’t that FCKGW-RHQQ2-YX… Something 🤣 knew that entire key for a pretty long time, but looks like it starts to fade.
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.
What do you use for burning blu-rays? I’ve recently been getting into it as a hobby.
That class sounds fun.
it was cool, it wasn’t JUST on that but we spent a lot of time on that. It was an introductory digital video editing class.
I did one on how to design teletext pages. On a separate and unrelated issue, my joints hurt.
my joints hurt
At our age you might wanna switch to edibles over smoking if it’s hurting you ;)
DVD Studio Pro was legit.
I did the full Final Cut —> Compressor + Motion for menu animations —> DVD Studio Pro then burned a stack of discs and applied labels
Completely unnecessary, but fun
Way easier to write a couple h264 rips in mkv onto one 4.7 GB dvd.
If it hasn’t happened already, Netflix is dropping the new She-Ra show from their service, and they’ve never released a physical form.
Therefore, it is illegal to watch She-Ra.
Also making a comeback because of things like Elsagate and YouTube Kids’ weird algorithms. Parents need to have reliable kid-friendly media that they can put on, without constantly needing to monitor it… And a DVD box set of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood won’t end up showing your kid softcore fetish content disguised as children’s videos, as soon as you walk away from the screen to make dinner.
I run a small Plex/Jellyfin server, and have a library specifically for kids’ shows. And my users can lock their kids’ accounts down so they can only access that library. So my various friends and relatives can put something on via Plex, and trust that it will stay safe for their kids.
Watching media more than once? This kills the child!
Not at all. One of my kids only likes to watch the same thing over and over and over. I think it must be comforting in the same way that we like to listen to the same music over and over; we recognize what comes next and there is a comfort in having that power.
I know. :) <3
What do you use for storage?
I only rip them for jellyfin
You should know, depending on the type and quality of the media, that CD/DVDs degrade over time spanning from 5-20 years (very high quality presses/burns can last upward of 50, but you are likely not doing that at home). Probably doesn’t matter for most use-cases, but just so people don’t get the idea that it’s good for long term storage past those rough estimates.
this is how I ended up finding out there are now much better rips available for many of the shows I burned to DVD in the mid 2000s
Does this mean the case of 5.25" DVD burners I have will be worth something again?
especially when you have 2 of those; duplex burning!!!
Got annoyed when things started coming and going as early as 2018 and started a Blu-Ray collection. About 80% of it is secondhand. I’ll admit I still have a couple streaming services, but all the stuff I know I like is readily and consistently available now.
I believe a hard drive is cheaper now.
And fails earlier. That’s why I’m thinking of backing up some stuff onto dvds again.
