• IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    18 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·
      18 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·
        18 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·
          18 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.

  • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one
    13·
    18 days ago

    This is Lemmy bruh. We still be burning discs on the reg.

    Seriously though, I still like to listen to CDs in my car. Something about making that perfect 20 song banger mixtape just hits different. And then slotting old CDs and having no idea what songs are on there but usually being pleasantly surprised. Spotify/Bluetooth is too easy and casual, I tend to pay more attention and enjoy the music more when listening to CDs.

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
      2·
      17 days ago

      Man you ain’t lying about having random songs on them. I’m always equally impressed and disturbed by some of the CDs I’ve made in the past.

      • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
        1·
        16 days ago

        My co-worker’s car was broken into while he was moving house. His cd collection was in the car and the only cd left was the one in the cd player. So we listened to who’s next by the who all summer. Nothing quite like coming back from a rave at 6 in the morning with baba O’Riley blasting. The soundtrack to a perfect wasted summer.

    • oppy1984@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      17 days ago

      I have a visor CD holder with a few burnt copies of albums I always enjoy. Yes my car has Bluetooth and yes I use it, but sometimes it’s just easier to pop in a CD. It’s also more legal, a couple of years ago a coworker got ticketed for distracted driving because the cop saw him switching albums on his phone while driving. I doubt you’ll get pulled over for swapping CDs.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    81·
    17 days ago

    Nah - CD’s are great.

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

  • thisNotMyName@lemmy.world
    7·
    17 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·
      17 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.

  • floo@retrolemmy.comBannedEnglish
    6·
    18 days ago

    For the last several years of me burning discs, they were all Ubuntu live dvds. I believe the last one was Ubuntu 18.04.

    • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      31·
      18 days 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.

  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca
    6·
    17 days ago

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

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    6·
    18 days ago

    I still have a BD-RE drive in my current setup. It almost never sees any use, but it’s definitely nice to have the option should I ever require it.

  • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    71·
    18 days ago

    I recently tried. Didn’t work. Don’t know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted.
    CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      3·
      18 days ago

      CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.

      Spoken like a person who doesn’t own a floppy drive. 😞

      Tap for spoiler

      I’m just making a silly joke, of course, but I think there’s enough temporal overlap between floppy drives and USB ports that it’s accurate.

      • macniel@feddit.org
        4·
        18 days ago

        Remember when BIOSes weren’t able to boot from CD-ROM so you needed a boot disk? Or was that just a windows problem?

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
          3·
          18 days ago

          The first computer I ever used was a Macintosh 128k. It didn’t have an OS. The OS was on a floppy that you had to have in to start the system. My dad bought two external floppy drives so that he could run more complex programs on the thing.