• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Amusingly, I think I remember some of my last ones, though maybe not my absolute final one.

    For the most part, I’d already moved away from CDs, but I got a job driving vans which didn’t have Bluetooth or an aux port. I ended up burning a few mp3 CDs für that job some time in late 2014.

    Fun fact: one of those CDs contained brony music which I accidentally left in my van one night. I came into work the next day to hear it blaring on the warehouse speakers until I heard someone saying “what is this?” before changing the CD.

    The drivers were all talking about it during lunch and I sat there quietly, amused by them trying to figure it out 😂

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I’m assuming you’ve moved on, but if not, there are FM transmitters for when you want music or navigation instructions from your phone to play over the vehicle’s speakers. Bluetooth or 3.5mm jack ones are both available.

      • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Oh god yeah you’re bringing back some memories there 😂

        So I already knew they were a thing, but annoyingly on some of the vans there was only a single 12v socket, and we had to use that socket to plug in the navigation system/manifest.

        So CDs were the easier choice until I got hold of one of those 12v splitters.

        The one I had was far bulkier than the one shown.

        A lot of the time it didn’t matter anyway because people don’t take care of the vans so a lot of the guys played their shit in the loading bays at full volume and would regularly blow the speakers out.

        Sometimes I was going out with a Bluetooth speaker jammed between the dash and windscreen.

        I had 100 solutions, it seems. The CDs were just one of them 😂

        I taught one of my friends to drive. She now has her first car - a 15 year old Mini - so now she has my old FM transmitter 🥰

    • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yup. I tossed out a whole sleeve of them things a couple years ago. New burn every time. Then I saved them … because … um … nothing.

  • SoyaSuki@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    And one day, a few years later, I threw away my opened package of unwritten raw CDs and DVDs.

    • Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Still feels like a waste. But my spool was just taking up space.

      I regret it, it was dozens of disks, and yet haven’t needed a CD since.

      Although I do still use DVDs on occasion.

  • uberfreeza@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s easy for me to remember. I made a cute soundtrack for an anniversary. I miss that relationship sometimes, but I try to convince myself leaving helped me grow.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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    1 year ago

    Nah - CD’s are great.

    Everyone should be burning Parenti lectures and leaving them in public spaces. Very fun past time.

  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Until you find a reason to do it again. I burned a cd like last year because my car has a cd player.

  • thisNotMyName@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.