Ahahaha no way it’s a set up for our benefit it’s gotta be
I got a usb cd burner online for $15 recently
What are the price of disks now?
$15 for 50 DVD-Rs on Amazon
Idk I didn’t buy any hahaha
I don’t know, I still have about 30 spare from the turn of the century.
I keep finding unused packs of 100 for like a buck at thrift stores I could make a few thousand copies of some b list Ashton Kutcher movie then shingle my house with them.
Still usable?
I have absolutely no idea whatsoever.
I mean your laptop… oh right they can’t do that, not anymore.
I burnt a CD yesterday.
Win XPGXYPJ-4W67Q-6273F-QJ7FR-9MW4M
Wasn’t that FCKGW-RHQQ2-YX… Something 🤣 knew that entire key for a pretty long time, but looks like it starts to fade.
Starcraft 1 - 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333(for some reason all 3s worked)
For StarCraft, the installer would do some math on all but the last number, then see if the result of that matched the last number to decide if the key was valid. So you could enter random numbers, then just retry while changing the last digit and guess a valid key in max 10 tries
Or 11 - the last digit could be X (for ten) if they were using the modulo 11 check digit system.
Same for Counter-Strike 1.6, but there it was
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Is this an illegal number?
This is how Elrond felt when someone spoke the words from the one ring.
XCNF8-R99R9-R4XV8-2VQD7-FJP6M
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
That would have been cool
What do you mean would?
being a millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
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.
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.
Methinks she was pretending to not (know how to) know for the bants
Or rather didn’t particularly care, but found more fun in imagining more fantastical scenarios to entertain herself.
quite possibly, not very well versed in the social media arts
They use AI, which feeds them some bullshit story instead.
Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
Yes, with fire. The Romans originally tried it, which is what led to Nero accidentally burning down ROMe.
Never knew that was a history reference.
Go to jail
I miss Nero. It was a great at burning things.
It was a great piece of software for sure. Simple enough and effective.
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 from 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.
I posted a scathing reply to their post, but then lost confidence in it when it occurred to me they might have been joking, like deliberately getting it wrong to join in the joke OP posted.
I have not yet met a young person who doesn’t know what a CD is. I feel like the internet has pranked me.
It was them, wasn’t it? The kids. They started this rumor did they not? They’re laughing at us right now, aren’t they? They’re reading this comment and they know I fell for it.
The other day my cousin asked what blu-ray was. I felt so old.
But if you ask them what burning a cd is I bet they think it’s setting them on fire, not writing data to the disk.
Not me, haha my father tought me those things from a young age.
But did he show you how cool it is to microwave them?
I don’t know why we called it burning. Fire was not involved. We could have just called it “copying.”
From the Wikipedia article.
A CD recorder writes data to a CD-R disc by pulsing its laser to heat areas of the organic dye layer. The writing process does not produce indentations (pits); instead, the heat permanently changes the optical properties of the dye, changing the reflectivity of those areas.
You know how you can use a magnifying glass to burn stuff with sunlight?
It was basically that but with lasers.
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.
The crush probably had some incriminating evidence they needed to be disposed of for sure.
Don’t we all… Right?
I captured, taped, burned, and also ripped!
Dual cassette decks baby, all the C64 games you could ever wish for!
Wait until you hear about the band who put a c64 program into the runoff area of their vinyl.
I am Ripper… Tearer… Slasher… Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength… and Lust… and Power! I AM BEOWULF!
Rip and burn, until it is done.
buffer underrunStop! You’re scaring me!
good, so you better have a decent transfer rate or you will destroy all those sweet discs!
– - ( ( ( cyclic redundancy eRrRoOoOoOrRrRr! ) ) ) - –
Ah, you amateurs with your slow hdd / bad partitioning / fragmentation / uncontrolled background processes!
I had a slow ass windows 98 pc back then, get off my back :/
Mom said it’s my turn to load Nero now
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it!
Next tell her that that text we were waiting on was made with only numbers on our phones. Her brain my come out her nose.
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
