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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I don’t even have an optical drive anymore jesus.
Encarta 96 btw
As a fan of physical media, I recently bought another drive as a spare, currently is IMO a good time for that. They still make really good drives in large enough quantities so they're cheap, but that could end any time. Once production stops, they will vanish silently. Learned that lesson back then when floppy drives were suddendly gone... kinda wish I had stocked up a few new ones (for retro computing purposes) when they were still available.
Yeah production of consumer writeable CDs / DVDs / BDs has basically stopped already. The end is in sight.
Also I'm not sure how much of a problem this is for newer CD drives, but older ones tend to give out sooner or later.
My Sega Saturn*'s drive still works, but I also installed a Satiator** drive emulator in case that changes.
* ^My^ ^username^ ^is^ ^serious^ ^business^ ^after^ ^all^
** ^Had^ ^to^ ^go^ ^with^ ^this^ ^option^ ^since^ ^it's^ ^the^ ^only^ ^non-destructive^ ^one^
There's always overpriced audiophile gear...