• lmuel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Well yeah but I also ate for the last time until I’ll eat again this evening, right?

    You can simply turn the last time into the not-last time at any point in the future

    • Case@lemmynsfw.com
      3·
      6 days ago

      You say that, but eventually CDs will stop being produced.

      Floppies still exist, but they are more and more difficult to find in the wild.

  • dotslashme@infosec.pub
    4·
    6 days ago

    Actually about to reverse course on this one. As a data hoarder, bluray as cold storage seem like a sensible solution.

      • dotslashme@infosec.pub
        1·
        6 days ago

        Well, most media is sensitive to one thing or another. I chose discs mostly because of convenience and cost per byte. I also believe I can control temperature and make copies often enough to last.

  • thisNotMyName@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 days 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
      3·
      7 days 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.

  • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Every person you meet will eventually be seen for the last time. It’s odd how casual those departures can be.

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    6 days 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.

  • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
    21·
    6 days ago

    I thought about this a lot after the last time I saw this post. I am almost positive it was a The Prodigy mix that I made for myself. My little sister got a car with a CD drive in it as her first car and she asked for my old CDs and that’s the latest one I can recall making.

    Crazy to think that 10+ years after I made that CD now my little sister is listening to it haha. And I was already listening to many cd mixes my mom and father had given to me over the years. That CD case probably has illegally downloaded music burned to CDs from over 25 years ago in it. Not to mention several actual CDs that are probably almost 50 years old at this point. My father loved the classics and after he ripped his entire library to cram into his digital magic box he let a lot of the physical CDs go to his son’s. at least 1 or two ended up on that cd case of mine.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    6 days ago

    Yep, it was the 10th time i was attempting to burn a clients files to DVD’s. I swore i was never going through that again. Then after i got a successful burn prompt, i went to hit ok and a fatal error had occured, and lo and behold the burn failed after verification. Joined the Navy within the week.

  • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    7 days 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
      5·
      7 days 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
        3·
        7 days 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 🥰

        • boonhet@lemm.ee
          1·
          7 days ago

          I hope she enjoys the Mini! Though at this point that’s a fairly modern car. 15 years old is 2010 and many of those allow retrofitting factory options for sound. I’m looking to get Carplay in my brand new 18 year old German shitbox that’s both falling apart and in excellent shape at the same time. Mr12volt has kits for a lot of those, but sadly no Minis.