I keep meaning to do this, but do I really want to buy a dvd reader just to try to rip all my older music and movies that I seem to be getting along without?

Actually, a more likely reason is baby pictures. My mom was trying to be forward thinking and sent copies of all the pictures she took of my kids on cd-r or Kodak picture disk. Those are more important

Yeah it’s really bizarre seeing my teen get excited about buying cassettes and vinyl

No, and my only readers are on the old workstations I use as servers. Bigass thumb drives just do more better and have since 16 gigs made a thumb drive bigass

I started buying CDs from Japan and on the used market (thank god discogs).
Pretty weird :D

Yes, I use them to store data that I just need to read. I also rip my DVDs

I still have some and I burned music on them.

We have a spindle of CD-Rs. I wish it was DVDs! We'd have a use for DVDs! It's WAY easier to just burn a Linux ISO than it is to faff about with a USB stick. Less convoluted to boot from, too (hybrid ISOs are a bit cursed; it doesn't matter if you're doing the usual pure "overwrite the entire stick" thing, but it's not great if you're also using the drive for other stuff – that's not an issue with DVD[-+]Rs, they come in packs and each individual disc is cheap enough it's one disc per thing).

Wee do have a couple OpenBSD install CDs. We don't use them enough to be super useful. But a Debian install DVD? I'd use that.

-- Frost

Yep, I'm using m-discs blu ray for storage of some of my data because I'm afraid of bit flips that I can't detect.
I had this happen already with images that got destroyed without me noticing.

You are a gold mine to your friends! :D

I agree. It's just some much simpler to use a thumb drive. However, I also agree with those that comment that they are prone to bricking and malfunction of some sort.

I had never even heard of radio subscriptions before. :O

What's your latest rare find that you made a copy of? :D

DVDs don't seem to be on the brink of extinction in the same way floppys are, so I think you're good! :) What art do you do? :D

And they also easily become bricked and unusable... Discs definitely are reliable. :)

Haha, maybe there some IDE to PCI converters? If you have to need, that is. 🙈

My question exactly, although there seem to be stability issues with cheap thumb drives. I bricked two of them within six months from absolute normal use. :/

😂 legendary

If and when you get the chance, if you don't mind the risk of doxing, PLEASE do share an image of that bear lol

Oh no :( I know it's not the same, but just buy an external burner!

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CD player in your car earns so much respect from me!!! :)

Tru.

Man, I would pay CASH for a computer with an internal floppy drive!

The number of seconds it took for me to understand this comment...

...will follow me to the grave.

Name the top three most valuable ones!

And you did not share that loot of floppys with the rest of the world? D:

The inmates at the prison that I was working at all had off brand CD Walkmans.

I will always remember the day a fellow human being taught me the generic term

4.7" optical media

Holy shit this comment unlocked stuff in me. You can't just carelessly throw around terms like "Dreamcast", " Windows XP" and "that took 8 discs".

"120mm optical media" is better, because that's the official measurement, but it has its own problems. There's the "mini" form factor at 80mm and the credit card form factor as well, and those still qualify as CDs, DVDs, etc., even though they're not 120mm.

"Optical media whose most common form factor is a 120mm disc" fits, as does "CD-like media", but the former is wordy and the latter comes with the potential confusion that the others are CDs, when they're not. Which I admit to deliberately avoiding for precisely that reason.

Which led me to discover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc

Red Dwarf may be prophetic, and all the old formats will come back. Old formats, as in older than CD/DVD.

And the floppies may even get big, really big, for the really important stuff, to help make sure we don't lose it.

I mentioned it to my partner the other day but medical contraceptive packaging looks remarkably similar to how storage media was packaged in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

Take the logos off and play a game of DVDs or Plan B?

Sure!
First prize: a cracked Grand Theft Auto 3
Second prize: strawberry flavored

I thought about it. But I all belonged to a dead guy. And I thought to my self. This is cool and all and I can nit pick through this load of stuff yes But he is dead and I'm alive. And this stuff didn't do him any good in the end. So I'd rather not waste my time.

I did find this though funny enough there is an archive online of all the contents in it

Some obscure South African CD's that no one outside SA knows about. I have a strange fascination with South African rock music.

I thought about it, and the small paranoid part of me convinced me not to dox myself. I can at least describe some of it.

The discs are all intact but are in stacks, probably glued in the center rims to one of those long, thin, cylindrical metal bars with the spiral. Going from bottom middle of the piece to the top.

The bear, although it's very hard to tell, has the metal bar thing going through the top and bottom of it.

They're both creative enough uses for the project, which seems to have been taking unused things and recycling them into the project, but doesn't mean I have to like it. Especially as someone who loves both discs and stuffed animals.

Especially as someone who loves both discs and stuffed animals.

Thanks for that wholesome wrap up!💿🧸💿