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.
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 ;)
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 only rip them for jellyfin
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"...
Oh my God
Right, only took me almost twenty years too
I'm so fucking impressed, and simultaneously I feel like a dumbass for never getting it
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
I captured, taped, burned, and also ripped!
being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
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.
No, but literally burning them was fun because of the colorful flames and smoke. And the burning lungs.
Spicy rainbow fires are the best.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
I firmly believe figuring out how to bypass the little tab on cassettes to make them writable again to impress girls with mixtapes was THE defining moment that launched the pheaker and subsequent hacker movements.
I thought it was the captain crunch whistle that started the phreaker era
Ahahaha no way it's a set up for our benefit it's gotta be
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.
Ahh, all you sweet summer children and your fancy CD burners and MP3 players.....
I remember the OG "mixtapes". Sitting on our bedroom floors for hours with a 9V 6 transistor radio and listening to the local rock and roll station hoping to hear your favorite group's new song being announced by the DJ so you could press the play and record buttons on that cheap portable cassette player to record the latest songs. All just so you could have a shitty mono recording to listen to.
If your Girlfriend gave you a tape filled with all her favorite music, it was like both of you were half ways down the aisle and headed for marriage. It was that serious.
A friend made a mix-stick for this girl as a birthday present. He just didn't mix songs but whole albums. She enthusiastically thanked him for the USB stick not thinking about that what is on the stick might be more important.
I got a mix-stick from him as well. I still listen to those albums sometimes.
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.
The secrets will not be exposed... Unless you are willing to join the black parade...
I remember burning cds with songs I got from limewire back in the day. Takes me back
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