• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I downloaded a 1GB update on my phone today and it took a couple minutes. I spaced out remembering how fucking advanced it felt getting a x2 CD burner.

    • villainy@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Then you try to do anything else with that PC while it’s writing at 300 KBps and… buffer underrun. So many coasters.

      • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I remember when some company started advertising “BURN-proof” CD-R drives and thinking that was a really dumb phrase, because literally nobody shortened “buffer underrun” to “BURN”, and because, you know, “burning” was the entire point of a CD-R drive.

        It worked though. Buffer underruns weren’t a problem on the later generations of drives. I still never burned at max speed on those though. Felt like asking for trouble to burn a disc at 52x or whatever they maxed out at. At that point it was the difference between 1.5 minutes and 4 minutes or something like that. I was never in that big a rush.

        • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz
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          7 months ago

          The last CD-drive I had burned at 52x. I still remember how it sounded like a small jet engine spooling up when the burn started. Amazing how I always got bit perfect burns and how the discs didn’t explode while spinning like a car turbocharger.

    • The Ramen Dutchman@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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      6 months ago

      What took you five disks?
      I think even the Heroes of Might and Magic I played was 3 disks, and it took ages!

      And just yesterday I complained about having to wait over 2.5h to download and install a game over our 12 MiB / 100 megabit cable, I’m becoming spoiled…

  • rozodru@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I had a program that came with special CD Labels for the printer where you could make your own cool CD label covers. that was fun.

    Or going into a Dreamcast IRC channel to download games and burn them to disk. I think I only ever actually bought like 2 Dreamcast games, Shenmue and Seaman, the rest were just burned to CD-Rs.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I was buying blank DVD’s with printable surfaces, I had an epson inkjet with a tray that would print directly on the disk.

      I would get a shipment of 4 DVD’s from netflix, rip all 4, shrink them down below 4.7G, burn them, print a label on them and put them in a binder. and mail them back out for the next set of 4. The output looked shockingly good. I made it through a spindle or so before i moved on to tversity and stopped dealing with physical media.

      • Slovene@feddit.nl
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        7 months ago

        It was so awesome when I bought a LightScribe dvd burner and could put various decorations on the dvd along with the content label. The novelty wore off quickly though.

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Yeah, I had an external HP light scribe at one point. I bought a single piece of media for it, It just took so long…

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    7 months ago

    …and for a while it was fairly normal to refer to writing bootable USB sticks as “burning” as well.

    Now I don’t say that anymore because I don’t want to sound like a boomer, or - worse - I don’t want people to take me at my word or think I’m just plain mad.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I always somehow thought the distinction of “burning” a USB thumb drive was adding an MBR or setting something that ordinary file writes don’t do.

  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Meh, burning CDs… ever had to worry whether you’d parked your hard drive’s heads before moving it, child…?

    (To be fair, neither did I, probably; my earliest hard drive was already IDE, I believe, and those seem to have already had autopark, but the old lore was that you parked your hard drives before moving them, or the heads would scratch the surface, so park them we did.)

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      ever had to worry whether you’d parked your hard drive’s heads before moving it, child…?

      Yes, also you parked it before shutting down the system every time. Once the hard drive was powered down, the heads would just crash into the platters. While not instantly fatal, it wasn’t good for the drive. So, you’d park the drive before flipping the power switch.

  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Nah, I’d end up explaining why floppy discs weren’t floppy, instead, and let the younger folks explain the CDs.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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    7 months ago

    “The ‘burn’ part is like what the climate change does, which you are familiar with.
    The ‘CD’ part is like your brain, where the ‘burn’ causes microplastics to melt in a pattern that stores data.”

    “Now kids, can anyone tell me why the historians often say ‘CDs nutz’?”

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      7 months ago

      ::Tiny precocious little scamp raises hand::

      “Was that an off shoot of the philosopher Welvin’s posit on the ‘got eem’ principle?”