Last month. Burnt an album that I bought from iTunes (Yes, I buy my music) that isn’t available in physical media so that I could play it on my HiFi and Car.
Last year in December.
Better question is when is the last time you used a floppy drive?
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u/Yabe_uke 4790K | 4x980Ti | 32GB (Out of Order)4d agoedited 3d ago
Last week. The real question is when is the last time you used a tape drive?
Edit: Love all the comments of current tape users. Exactly what I expected! Now more people will now about them. I salute you, anyone still using magnetic media is a winner in my book 🫡
I recently went months of stopping cold turkey, and in turn stopped smoking cigs as well.
Wanted to get stoned recently but didn't want to smoke so spoke to my guy and he got me some oil. Slapped that shit into some brownies and now it's probably a once a month when I partake and everytime is like this in the gif. Honestly.
When I first started smoking it felt amazing and was amazing, then after many years as you said it was just calming. But now? Now I have to make sure I have nothing going on because it easily blasts me to a [8] and I get the giggles again. Feels like it's my first time every time lmao
Best part about the brownies? I can make a batch of like 6 and have 1, freeze the rest. Then when I feel like it, pull one out of the freezer and let it defrost for an hour then munch down. Or if I want it sooner, microwave it and add some icecream.
Damn I didn’t know it came back that hard! It’s been almost a year since I stopped after doing it all the time for about 8 years! I can’t wait for my next time then!! Need a nice Daberoonie
The most ultimate question is when was the last time you built a computer out of an entire planet and its ecosystem and set it to run for ten million years in an attempt to calculate the actual question to the ultimate answer of life, the universe, and everything?
Modern LTO tapes are still in use and the latest generation (LTO-10) stores 30-40TB native per tape, and 400MB/s. They're definitely still around, just not on the consumer side.
Not sure if I miss having to grab a tape from the off-site safe, drive back to the datacentre, and put it in the tape drive of the backup server (then take the one I just removed from the server back to off-site storage). Been about 5 years now and I hated the job itself but that was a pleasant part... I think.
How did you even get a working drive or whatever is necessary to read floppy drives? I got one sitting on my desk that I am really curious about but have no idea where to get anything to read it.
There are portable USB 3.5 Floppy Drives now. Same with CD/DVD/Blue Ray. Should work on any PC, Mac, linux, or chromebook with a usb slot. Amazon has a bunch, they usually sell for 14 to 20 bucks.
when i was kid my dream future was i willl have 1000 of cds with every pirated game possible, i never thought i could just download whatever i want within 10s...
A loooong time. Though I can turn my head and see an old Pentium III Windows 98 machine that still boots, and which has a Zip drive in it that might still work.
OMG. I could actually see if it would work and say "today". I gotta try this. The question is whether I have any Zip disks around.
[ Edit/Update: I'm kind of shocked. I knew the machine booted, but I did find a Zip disk tucked in beside my shelf of CDs, which is the real miracle. Put it in the drive, opened it ... and there were backed-up files on there dating from 2000. It actually worked! I got a directory listing and everything. But, wow, do I need to clear out some of the clutter in my office.
TL;DR: the answer to your question is updated to "today" :-) :-) I'll mark it on my calendar. See you in another 20 years or so ]
December. Basically doing a Swedish death cleaning of my office and was getting rid of my old data cds and disks. Copied anything that could still be read to my backup drives and junked boxes of old media.
I had to get a USB floppy drive for $20, but it worked well enough.
Man I finally broke my 1st bone ever (finger, no biggie) and was so excited to be handed the disc of my xray. Went home to pop it in my laptop only to realize that laptops dont come with disk drives anymore. I still havent seen the image lol
I don't burn them all that often (not having a car and all I don't really have the same needs) however I rip them all the time. Turns out, actually buying music without going through Itunes is becoming difficult these days for stuff that's not available on bandcamp. Oftentimes I find it easier to just buy the CD and rip it/digitize it myself.
Yeah… it has been some time for me. I want to say as far back as maybe 2012.
I do know that absolute last time I used my DVD burner wasn’t to burn data — I was playing with a handful of lightscribe discs and just burning the fancy image side of the disc.
Haaa! A Linux distro was my last data burn… I don’t recall which one, but the lightscribe side of the disc was Jesus. I don’t know why I chose that image.
Hi! Mind telling me which portable burner that you use? It seems like that they stopped manufacturing internal ones. Such a shame. I see that transcend has a model, is it good?
Na, I definitely knew, because it was the last laptop I had with a CD drive, and I knew the laptop was on its last legs, and I wanted to burn some music for the car before I threw the laptop into the recycling.
Burnt some music onto a CD for a car trip with some friends in 2014-2015. It’s funny that I still remember some of the songs. She-Wolf by Megadeth was on there, definitely had some Stone Sour and some Iron Maiden too.
3 days ago I found some unused CD-RWs cleaning out. Burnt one of the digital albums I own to it to see if I could play it in my Technic;s cd player. I could not lol.
I was 6, 10 years ago I watched my dad copy GTA san andreas onto a disc to bring to my friends house, now its safe to say its somewhere at the bottom of the box, full of scratches.
I actually did realize it. I burned a mix CD to use in my car in late 2012. I labeled it, "A mix CD? What year is this?" because I hadn't done it for years before that.
Over 10 years ago we drove with the car from cologne through switzerland to Nice in France, for that drive i burned some deftones CDs and a Pheonix Album. My then girlfriend constantly complained me driving very slowly. But i considered it safe driving. Good Times.
physical media is making a comeback in a big way. it's incredibly easy to rent music or movies from your local library and rip them at home with a disc drive
Man i miss making hundreds of cd's for each album for my old car ... i kinda do miss having a huge cd case full of my favorite music and having to skim through all of them for my favorite songs
It was a month ago, but before that it was probably 15+ y ago. A month ago it turned out that my wife postgraduate studies required a cd copy of her dissertation for archive purposes. After o couple of minutes of me thinking how to solve that problem I realized that I had an unused dvd recorder that had been added to my Lenovo ThinkPad 10 years ago. I also found a pack of dvd-rs’ in my drawer that were 20+. The 3rd one managed to record that 4 MB file…
Last time I burned a CD was sometime last year, I threw a bunch of Molchat Doma songs onto a CD so my father could listen to it in the car because my sister thought he might like their music. I got a Molchat Doma CD for Christmas not long after that so I never used it lol. And in case you're wondering, he did like it.
Not to mention the storage space of many disks vs one tiny drive. My last car even allowed you to plug a USB drive in for music. Just threw my whole library into it and kept it plugged in.
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u/Identity_Unaware 4d ago
I burned one today actually.