I thought about this a lot after the last time I saw this post. I am almost positive it was a The Prodigy mix that I made for myself. My little sister got a car with a CD drive in it as her first car and she asked for my old CDs and that’s the latest one I can recall making.
Crazy to think that 10+ years after I made that CD now my little sister is listening to it haha. And I was already listening to many cd mixes my mom and father had given to me over the years. That CD case probably has illegally downloaded music burned to CDs from over 25 years ago in it. Not to mention several actual CDs that are probably almost 50 years old at this point. My father loved the classics and after he ripped his entire library to cram into his digital magic box he let a lot of the physical CDs go to his son’s. at least 1 or two ended up on that cd case of mine.
Will there be a time where we will write to a USB stick for the last time?
Actually about to reverse course on this one. As a data hoarder, bluray as cold storage seem like a sensible solution.
How? It is pretty sensitive to weather and decay. Why not tapes?
Well, most media is sensitive to one thing or another. I chose discs mostly because of convenience and cost per byte. I also believe I can control temperature and make copies often enough to last.
If you are doing long term storage (5+ years) i’m pretty sure that tapes win on costs
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll have a look at tape again and see where I end up.
Well yeah but I also ate for the last time until I’ll eat again this evening, right?
You can simply turn the last time into the not-last time at any point in the future
You say that, but eventually CDs will stop being produced.
Floppies still exist, but they are more and more difficult to find in the wild.
Every person you meet will eventually be seen for the last time. It’s odd how casual those departures can be.
I don’t think that’s true. I have a 20+ year old iBook G3 that I keep around to tinker with Mac OS 7-9. The usb slots either don’t work, or at least don’t support newer usb drives, so it’s only a matter of time before I hop over to the Macintosh Garden and start burning discs again.
I don’t even have a device with an optical reader
Huh, I just got blank CDs yesterday.
I’m wasting untold amounts of optical media on trying to install a FOSS OS on an iMac G5. PPC64be is a pain in the ass nowadays
yeah, but i’m planning on that day being the future. gotta save all my music offline 💖
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Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.
Yep, it was the 10th time i was attempting to burn a clients files to DVD’s. I swore i was never going through that again. Then after i got a successful burn prompt, i went to hit ok and a fatal error had occured, and lo and behold the burn failed after verification. Joined the Navy within the week.
Hah I knew it exactly. 2019 when my university required to hand in all (raw) data used for creating my thesis on a CD or DVD. I had to buy a new one of these things where you get like 50 disks stacked on a stick (to use 3 of them) and had to borrow my mom’s old laptop, because it was the only one available with a dvd drive. I knew it then and I’ve been right since then: This was the last time.
I think for me it was before I moved counties and my disc was full so I put all my torrents on a couple DVDs. Early 2009.
Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?
I shit my pants once when I was 32, I did not know that wouldn’t be the last time.
It might not be.
In the North of England that’s called ‘shittin yer keks’.
