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I feel old now
Jun 22, 2021 5:03 AM
Srajo101
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Turbolibros
CanThinkOfUsername
CD? I remember using Floppy, that's why because I had really old PC as first computer.
FatherElongatedAppendages
I'm 27 & mentioned how I'm planning on getting a dog in 10 years and a kid (19) asked if I would be able to take care of a pet "that old"
Wand3uwu
You wouldn't steal a car, would you?
zampa
And people still make idiotic BDrip XviD 700MB in 2021.
I'm pretty sure they don't even know why...
dima1232223
The legend of Alcohol 120%
Forsaken64
Burning cool downs? Its when you cast lay on hands at max hp.
sollitaire
See this was along my thoughts, too. Then I thought, I play way too damn much WoW.
billsplaithe
Error: Buffer Underrun
Calicoastin818
Fuuuuuuuuck
JonatasAM
And you've selected to delete as it burns....
LdaQuirm
F
ItsThoseZanyGermans
deedogmoneypants
terabyteuk
Mordy9
ausernamewhat
armonis
BarretXIII
Kids these days don't know the confusion of only getting 120 minutes of songs when the disc also says 700MB of space.
HisDudness
alphaidioma
I miss it. I’m a fidget/fiddler & I would sit at a different station in the school lab each time & pick the little dirt scabs off. (35yo)
alphaidioma
Tbf, don’t miss wires and fishing around the tangle behind my tower (w/ the whopping 7GB hdd), mice just had particularly satisfying grime.
disposabledom
Microsoft Zune was THE best cd burner
GlowstickJedi
CD's nuts
jridley
First CD burner I used was at work. The burner alone cost $3500. No buffer underrun protection had to push burn and pray. $5 blanks
Rugmier
Thank you, I feel old now
SecretAgentSuperBooger
itsahorse
When I got my first double decker with built in mic. Man that was some hi tech stuff.
superunderpants
Give me a pencil, a cassette, weekend top 20 on the radio and a square of sellotape
theoriginalgiga
I doesn't matter what software you used you may have skimped in the ram, maybe the cpu but you bought the burner with underrun protection
pinkmilkyway
?
Gianttesticlemonster
Remember when phones were plugged into the wall and you couldn't use one and the internet at the same time?
bound4doom
You had to put in a special code and pause before your modem disabling call waiting. Also, you had a second line just for computer.
Spidey209
Get off the Internet. I am waiting for a call.
semanticsamsquamtch
Remember when you had to print out a 2x2 picture for a report and had to watch line after excruciating line for 10 minutes?
WoefulWombat
Remember when you wanted to play a game, but it took hours to load, then your mum would say "enough computer" and turn it off halfway?
iHateMyselfButIHateYouMore
Fine mom, you just wiped out the entire afternoon. I guess I'll just start THE ENTIRE 10 MB download over from scratch tomorrow
WoefulWombat
"You've been playing all day!" "But it never even loaded!" "No excuses!"
SecondSince
Some phones even had their own room, purely for making phonecalls. Wild times!!
astrangehop
Those tables are kinda cool
reichstein
Back when "free" internet came with a huge long distance phone bill.
phalanxausage
I was thrilled when blank CDs became cheaper than blank tapes. The day I discovered it I disconnected my tape deck and boxed up my tapes.
phalanxausage
I hate cassettes so fucking much. If I could have anything for my past back it would be the time and money I spent fucking with them.
jlist
Remember obsessing about the fail rate of burning CDs, when they cost $5 each?
StorytellingSalem
In the 90s and early 2000s there was a trend of lighting cds on fire (burning) and ninja throwing them at politicians who were corrupt.
FreedomWaffles
The great CD shortage of 2001. i remember it fondly.
whySoSergious
That's why it was better in the 90s!
blumpk1npie
Well well... a use for all my scratched-to-fuck old CDs
SarcasticComment
Don't forget Christians gathering together to burn "the devil's music" which they unironically supported through purchasing.
thetacoslaughterhouse
I do not miss it at all! But still way better than cassette. I’m only 35…
itsanadventureoutthere
I hear that! Waiting for a good song on the radio and hitting that record button!
UsernameMayBeSubjectToChange
And hoping that the dj shuts up for once
iHateMyselfButIHateYouMore
I do miss owning things sometimes. Like you pay just as much for a sub as for a CD a month but now when the company tanks you have nothing
ObscureReferencing
I listen to way more different music, I constantly find new small bands I never would have heard of otherwise. It's a godsend
iHateMyselfButIHateYouMore
Except google ... f00kin ... music (now youtubeMuzak) doesn't even bother with a recommendation engine anymore just top charts ...
iHateMyselfButIHateYouMore
Pandora has the best by far but I just got bored of ads / not enough skips and not being able to set a playlist
ChristopherHallett
I still buy books, music CDs, and BluRays.
DarkSlayer54
I basically use subscriptions for things I don't care about. If there's a movie / game I love though, I still buy it.
iHateMyselfButIHateYouMore
It's coming to that again, honestly. Hulu/Netflix have lost everything I got the subs for and it's either box sets or peacock and f* them
iHateMyselfButIHateYouMore
I just hate switching disks every few episodes so I'll probably have to rip them to disk first
JeffGodofBiscuits
reichstein
Anyone else feel that this version of Aslan was waaay too small?
IDontSpeakInternet
He gets bigger as you get older. You're just the wrong audience.
PeeStream
sometimes small. sometimes big. definitely not a safe kitty.
russiandollsarejustsofullofthemselves
Safe? Who said anything about being safe? Course he isn't safe. But he's good.
PeeStream
armaxx
Bugs me that at 33, I STILL have never read the books or seen the movies. At this point I'm relying on having kids.
Ulthirm
The books tell a different story from the movies. Read the books then the movies if you can frankly, they're both fine though. The religion
Ulthirm
Story is certainly there but it's no where near in your face until the last book where the author goes out of their way to point all the
Ulthirm
Allegory to you... i imagine on purpose
IAmAPoohBear
I mean, you could watch it right now. On Disney+ or Youtube, this moment.
armaxx
Yeah it's just... all the way over there.
Araknifobia
Trust me it's worth the effort!
VidiVeniThenSheLeft
Didn't they stop making the movies?
Mimsey
I have no regrets given how it's supposed to be just straight up hyper Christian allegory. There are better fantasy universes out there.
armaxx
Yeah but I've seen most the others and I like to form my own opinions.
Youhavinagiraffe
The allegory stuff really doesn't get in the way of the story all that much (except for the last book in the series)
thornprick
Guess I'll check it out along with His Dark Materials, to counter-balance it.
JeffGodofBiscuits
The books are a much different ride than either the movie or the series. I just wish they had gotten the movie cast for the series
wisher1977
I’ve always hated it when someone said this but the books are much better than the series. I got the audio books and one was read by 1/2
wisher1977
Patrick Stewart. It was pretty amazing.
armaxx
What i said or the christian thing? Of course movies are worse for story canon cos they're typically condensed versions of the story.
wisher1977
No, I meant when someone says “the book was better” when giving a review of a movie. LOL
isetprettygirlsonfire
Someone actually asked me to burn a music CD a few weeks ago. Can you even buy blanks?
neilwatkinsfromaccounting
I had trouble finding them a couple of years ago
ChloeRed
I can buy them today in my local supermarket
YankeeShame
Yes. WalMart has them.
YankeeShame
So does Target.
Xalaqia
Bought some this year. I occasionally burn a CD for my friends and family, if that would be most convenient.
saucefornoreason
I have like 500 blank cds that I'll never use but also feel like I shouldn't toss
GovernorRichardGecko
I saw some last week and was surprised, too.
IUpvoteLOTRMemes
Yeah i bought some at walmart a year or so ago
isetprettygirlsonfire
Good to know if I need one
Scaramucci
I bought some recently but they were a bit hard to find. In the end I realized buying a bluetooth 3.5" receiver is a more convenient option.
Icaro76
Put them “casually” close to your number plate to avoid speed tickets. I’m told.
silbendrechsler
Last got a stack when I handed in my BA thesis along with all my research data (anti-fraud measure I guess) in 2013. Still have most of 'em.
AC4400CW
I bought 500 20 years ago, so I still have about 480 sitting on top of my old pc in the corner. Jesus, I watched 9/11 on that machine.
floopdawoop
Yeah. If you own a Dreamcast you can burn games onto them. Beats paying outrageous prices for used games.
BeeAtPeace
I saw some at Target the other day. Set of 50 and one of 10.
Fuckme721
Yes. I used one to put an OS on my PS2 Slim a couple months ago.
Fuckme721
To clarify, I bought some, burned the OS onto one, then used the burned disc, lol.
clintwestwud
Fuck yes you can! My beater truck has a CD player and I’m too cheap to install a Bluetooth deck so I burn cds all the time. I even burned 1/
clintwestwud
One on my laptop while driving because i didn’t have any with me at the time lol. Stopped at Walmart and burned it in the lot
Spidey209
I have a stack that I stopped using 10 years ago.
idontlikepickingusername
Yeah, I think I've got a mostly full spindle in my office cabinet. Might be dvds though.
whySoSergious
Fun fact, the best way to store data is actually an M-disk, it has a stone-like layer on which you basically engrave binary. The company 1/2
mrjbacon
I was really interested for a while in 5-D fused quartz data storage for a while, but the implementation is clunky and expensive.
mrjbacon
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage?wprov=sfla1
whySoSergious
that is very interesting!
RednapxpandeR
Bought them. Very cool. Only downside it the burning speed is like the speed of the first burning drives came out. 2x/4x.
whySoSergious
guarantees a 1000 year life span. So it makes them basically into modern viking rune stones.
ecglover
But what reader will be able to read that data in a thousand years?
whySoSergious
well it just means that untouched, your data is guaranteed to be readable in your life span.. after that it's not your problem :)
Jyzzzy
Yeah the humanity will evolve so much it won't need math for their technology.
isetprettygirlsonfire
Well, as a geologist, I'm not opposed to rune stones haha
VulpineEmpress
You just achieved Dad level. Whether you have kids or not.
isetprettygirlsonfire
I do
PineappleAdventure
Tell me some rock facts!
ButteredNoodleDriver
THEY'RE MINERALS
isetprettygirlsonfire
When magma melts its way through the crust, chuncks of rocks fall into it. When they both harden the inclusions are called xenoliths.
HappyShark
Rocks are soft til touched then they get hard out of excitement
RentedRedux
rockitrunner
Dr. Gellar is that you?
isetprettygirlsonfire
I'm much more like Randy Marsh
Osicat
Nero burning Rom
PedroBenecol
The best software for such stuff
MyUsernameWasOccupied
In the year CD...
flamedance58
How did the guy from dmc get into bloodborne?
LaManuka
Fun times............
pocketflan
I finally get the reference
ReallyNotSure
worked there for some time. it was a good place.
DefaultImgurUsername
He burnt Rome.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
*Nro burning Rom
cheeseguy3412
I still have a Lightscribe DVD burner on an ancient laptop - and a case of blank CD / DVDs. Nice novelty, semi useful, but still fun.
Therepostingposterwithoutanytitleperson
Yea the old fella had nero. Showed me how to burn cds when i was a wee lad yarrr
youseemevulin
Fun fact, between now and the release of Nero burning as much Time has passed as between then and the actual event.
gucchan13
or cloneCD! oh the memories of all those buffer underruns XD
jupitermonkey
after all these years! i finally realize! is that where the program's name came from? because it burns?
RamosIsANerd
/a/jqmMTV4
aFadingMemory
ImgBurn
DrkBluePenguin
I used nero yesterday to burn an image I ripped from a bluray I got from netflix.
eotty
Buffer underun....
UsernameMayBeSubjectToChange
So many buffer underruns... so many CD-Rs reduced to coaster duty
carrio110
Nero if you were absolutely made of money. InfraRecorder for free software goodness.
VodkaReindeer
First you pirate nero, then you pirate some music, then you charge your brother for burning it on a CD.
Anarric
Uhh Nero had so many key generators (and some with the best 8bit music I've ever heard!!) there was never a reason to buy it thx Limewire!
idonthaveanyideawhatthehelliamtalkingabout
you really think people paid for Nero ?
nadeboy
I was a cheap ass and used CDBurnerXP which was free
TaggerXA
It was also far less ressource demanding than Nero. Had Nero crash on me, so many times..
MrMagoo76
Still is!
RamosIsANerd
Yeah... We didn't pay for Nero
AyrA
The keygen music was dope though https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/FFF/FFF_-_Nero_7.xx_kg.xm
AyrA
You may be more used to the one from orion https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/ORiON/ORiON_-_Nero_7_kg.xm
nadeboy
I did eventually get a free version of Nero, but by that time I preferred using cdburnerxp
LurkerOfDarkness
You could pay for Nero?
iWantedAcoolNameButTheyOnlyHadThisOne
Well now it's too late, probably
quadraspaz1
I didn't get the joke for ages that Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned
Pirunuk
Well I was today years old when I found out haha
Icaro76
Well..... THANK YOU.
CloudsandRainandSunandWind
Me neither! Despite being kinda classical educated!
JonatasAM
The actual joke is that "he burned it". That's why it's called Nero.
LurkerOfDarkness
While it was a fun reference, it's also a complete lie, as there's evidence Nero was at his villa in Antium at the time, and actually ½
LurkerOfDarkness
Rushed back to Rome to assist in the efforts to stop it and used a lot of time rebuilding it after, and tye fiddle wasn't even invented then
quadraspaz1
But he did make an illegal copy of Age of Empires while playing with himself
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
True, but even some favorable Nero sources claim he did perform a song about Troy's fall in front of wealthy patricians during the early >
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
days of the reconstruction process. And considering Nero had a very musical bent, it's probably true. But even this is more of a "letting >