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
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.
The first laptop I bought had a DVD burner which came with support for LightScribe, which required discs with a special coating. You designed a cover, put the disc in your drive upside down and it would burn the image into the disc. You could only do grayscale as far as I know, but I still thought it was pretty neat at the time.
It’s called cdimage
And it worked for me: https://lemmy.world/post/30813500I am linking through lemmy.world because SDF isn’t doing all too well.
there is very little support for lemmy at sdf. one of the nodes has had a hardware failure and will need to be replaced. the nodes are also in need of new fans and larger disks, but that requires support.
I had one of those “LightScribe” burners. I think I only used it a couple of times because the media was much more expensive than standard CD-R and I didn’t care enough to get good at it. It was just a slow extra step when I’m trying to burn a quick cd before I head to the bus stop in the morning.
Funnily, burning the lightscribe cd was faster than the first mp3 player I had. My first mp3 player was a Creative something or other with 32mb of storage. Adding the ~15 songs you could fit on it took fucking donkey’s years.
Those need special blank cd’s
Ay. Light Bright
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
and when you had one as a teen you still couldn’t afford to text for hours on end
And neither could my parents as it turned out
Yes, with fire. The Romans originally tried it, which is what led to Nero accidentally burning down ROMe.
I miss Nero. It was a great at burning things.
Never knew that was a history reference.
Go to jail
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.
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.
Haha yeah, I think SpiceDealer’s comment inadvertently supports the notion it’s meant to dispel.
But to be fair, the media world has been using the word “digital” to mean “electronic delivery” for a long time.
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Well, in a way you could say we used the equivalent of concentrated sunlight.
Yeah, like Nero … burning Rom(e).
Not once did I consider why it was called Nero.
I had that same eye opening moment with Tinder.
It was literally called Nero Burning ROM.
And the icon was a picture of a burning colloseum, incase the name went over your head.
I totally get that. Took me a while too and then I felt so dumb, because their logo was the colosseum in flames and everything made so much sense in hindsight.
Well yes, the incantation typically involved calling upon the ghost of the Emperor Nero.
I had a cracked copy of Nero I used to pirate Dreamcast games.
Was a pretty good hustle for a bit
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”…
Nero Burning ROM … such a good name ah
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
Oh, like Rome.
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.
The naming is one thing I legitimately like about the whole Linux/GNU/FOSS world.
Things are still named by nerds/enthusiasts who have some spark of joy and fun left in their hearts. Could you imagine a sanitized corporate software product released today with a name that directly refers to the established product it is meant to displace?
For example, things like GNU’s Not Unix or my favorite remotely accessible text/terminal based email client I used around the turn of the century, PINE Is Not Elm.
Then you get fun second-order software names like GIMP, too.
It’s all so preferable to the commercial software branding world where even though the visual presentation is extremely samey (everybody switching to the same popular boring fonts and removing logos/artwork), the actual brands are often made up silly words that are easy to get the domain name and the social handles for.
Be sure to follow BONTO! on all your favorite trillion dollar propaganda and surveillance platforms!
Corporate word processing software: Word
Apple’s photo management software: Photos
DUDE
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.
I still burn dvds with movies I like for them ☺️
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 ;)
What do you use for burning blu-rays? I’ve recently been getting into it as a hobby.
DVD Studio Pro was legit.
I did the full Final Cut —> Compressor + Motion for menu animations —> DVD Studio Pro then burned a stack of discs and applied labels
Completely unnecessary, but fun
Way easier to write a couple h264 rips in mkv onto one 4.7 GB dvd.
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 know. :) <3
What do you use for storage?
Personally I use NAS for a similar setup. Over 100TBs of storage, but kids movies (2.1TB) and TV (6.6TB) is just a small chunk of that.
What’s your drive of choice? And what enclosure do you like?
Whatever i can get for cheap that’s not utter garbage. Usually that’s WD, I dont trust Seagate (yes, I had that 3TB drive. 5 of them to be specific).
And my enclosure of choice is whatever case will fit the shenanigans I want to put in, nothing specific. Well other than being rack mount or a case that fits neatly in my rack.
“yes, I had that 3TB drive. 5 of them to be specific”
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I only rip them for jellyfin
If it hasn’t happened already, Netflix is dropping the new She-Ra show from their service, and they’ve never released a physical form.
Therefore, it is illegal to watch She-Ra.
You should know, depending on the type and quality of the media, that CD/DVDs degrade over time spanning from 5-20 years (very high quality presses/burns can last upward of 50, but you are likely not doing that at home). Probably doesn’t matter for most use-cases, but just so people don’t get the idea that it’s good for long term storage past those rough estimates.
this is how I ended up finding out there are now much better rips available for many of the shows I burned to DVD in the mid 2000s
Does this mean the case of 5.25" DVD burners I have will be worth something again?
especially when you have 2 of those; duplex burning!!!
… I could fill all 5.25* bay I have with DVD burners (some with lightscribe). I own five full tower cases.
MASS DUPLICATION
geez… my panties are wet now :O
Ssd’s and thumb drives are soooo much easier though Get jellyfin to serve it to your tv
I also use jellyfin. Most of my movies are digital copies.
Got annoyed when things started coming and going as early as 2018 and started a Blu-Ray collection. About 80% of it is secondhand. I’ll admit I still have a couple streaming services, but all the stuff I know I like is readily and consistently available now.
I believe a hard drive is cheaper now.
And fails earlier. That’s why I’m thinking of backing up some stuff onto dvds again.
being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
They use AI, which feeds them some bullshit story instead.
Methinks she was pretending to not (know how to) know for the bants
quite possibly, not very well versed in the social media arts
Or rather didn’t particularly care, but found more fun in imagining more fantastical scenarios to entertain herself.
Google sucks.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a decade.
Here we go with this normie shit again.
Use Startpage.
DuckDuckGo is basically just Bing with a bit more privacy and Bing search results suck too.
Also DDG have their own crawler, so they can deliver more results than Bing.
Dunno, ddg delivers what I need.
What do you use search engines for?
If it does was you need it to do you should definitely use it, privacy vise it’s obviously way better than google. Haven’t tried in in about 2 years, maybe the search results got better but the last time I tried it often presented me weird sites that technically contained the words I searched for but were completely irrelevant - entered the same question onto Google and immediately got me a stack overflow question that was practically the same question I had but phrased a bit differently. But as I said, maybe it’s no longer so bad as when I tried it.
For a long time I used DuckDuckGo for everything except specific error messages, because Google was better at those, but Google got more shitty and so did stack overflow, so I don’t bother much with Google anymore.
I’ve tried everything and I really really really can’t use Google. It just never gets me what I want. DDG works ok, and is usually my default because it’s fast and simple.
Recently (1 or 2 years) I’ve found Brave search to be fantastic though. You may want to disable the AI search summary (it’s better than Google’s or DDG’s ai stuff, but still ultimately ai). Now, I find myself reaching for brave search when I’m doing more serious searching. I have both DDG and Brave saved as search short cuts in librewolf. Highly recommend.
kagi
Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
