There was also a software to burn pictures in the disc via the burn patterns. There’s a open source project now but it didn’t work for me.
I had one of those “LightScribe” burners. I think I only used it a couple of times because the media was much more expensive than standard CD-R and I didn’t care enough to get good at it. It was just a slow extra step when I’m trying to burn a quick cd before I head to the bus stop in the morning.
Funnily, burning the lightscribe cd was faster than the first mp3 player I had. My first mp3 player was a Creative something or other with 32mb of storage. Adding the ~15 songs you could fit on it took fucking donkey’s years.
It’s called cdimage
And it worked for me: https://lemmy.world/post/30813500I am linking through lemmy.world because SDF isn’t doing all too well.
there is very little support for lemmy at sdf. one of the nodes has had a hardware failure and will need to be replaced. the nodes are also in need of new fans and larger disks, but that requires support.
I think the one i used was named different? Maybe i’ll try again, thanks!
You know what would be magic? If you could boot Linux from that. Should theoretically be possible, no?
The first laptop I bought had a DVD burner which came with support for LightScribe, which required discs with a special coating. You designed a cover, put the disc in your drive upside down and it would burn the image into the disc. You could only do grayscale as far as I know, but I still thought it was pretty neat at the time.
It was pretty neat but if you kept the CDs in your car they basically fell apart.
Those need special blank cd’s
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.
I firmly believe figuring out how to bypass the little tab on cassettes to make them writable again to impress girls with mixtapes was THE defining moment that launched the pheaker and subsequent hacker movements.
Adobe played a huge role in creating a generation of hackers by charging 2x the price of a car for a photoshop license.
That and hatred for the drummer of Metallica.
I thought it was the captain crunch whistle that started the phreaker era
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.
And burning cd/dvd’s is getting more popular due to disappearing content on streaming services. Some shows got removed and are no longer available to watch elsewhere legally. Such a shame.
Ssd’s and thumb drives are soooo much easier though Get jellyfin to serve it to your tv
I also use jellyfin. Most of my movies are digital copies.
Also making a comeback because of things like Elsagate and YouTube Kids’ weird algorithms. Parents need to have reliable kid-friendly media that they can put on, without constantly needing to monitor it… And a DVD box set of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood won’t end up showing your kid softcore fetish content disguised as children’s videos, as soon as you walk away from the screen to make dinner.
I run a small Plex/Jellyfin server, and have a library specifically for kids’ shows. And my users can lock their kids’ accounts down so they can only access that library. So my various friends and relatives can put something on via Plex, and trust that it will stay safe for their kids.
What do you use for storage?
Personally I use NAS for a similar setup. Over 100TBs of storage, but kids movies (2.1TB) and TV (6.6TB) is just a small chunk of that.
What’s your drive of choice? And what enclosure do you like?
Whatever i can get for cheap that’s not utter garbage. Usually that’s WD, I dont trust Seagate (yes, I had that 3TB drive. 5 of them to be specific).
And my enclosure of choice is whatever case will fit the shenanigans I want to put in, nothing specific. Well other than being rack mount or a case that fits neatly in my rack.
“yes, I had that 3TB drive. 5 of them to be specific”
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Watching media more than once? This kills the child!
Not at all. One of my kids only likes to watch the same thing over and over and over. I think it must be comforting in the same way that we like to listen to the same music over and over; we recognize what comes next and there is a comfort in having that power.
I know. :) <3
Does this mean the case of 5.25" DVD burners I have will be worth something again?
especially when you have 2 of those; duplex burning!!!
… I could fill all 5.25* bay I have with DVD burners (some with lightscribe). I own five full tower cases.
MASS DUPLICATION
geez… my panties are wet now :O
I only rip them for jellyfin
I believe a hard drive is cheaper now.
And fails earlier. That’s why I’m thinking of backing up some stuff onto dvds again.
I took a class on DVD creation back in the day, how to write the menus and link tracks and whatnot.
Time to shake off the ‘ol bootleg machine.
Way easier to write a couple h264 rips in mkv onto one 4.7 GB dvd.
That class sounds fun.
it was cool, it wasn’t JUST on that but we spent a lot of time on that. It was an introductory digital video editing class.
I did one on how to design teletext pages. On a separate and unrelated issue, my joints hurt.
my joints hurt
At our age you might wanna switch to edibles over smoking if it’s hurting you ;)
If it hasn’t happened already, Netflix is dropping the new She-Ra show from their service, and they’ve never released a physical form.
Therefore, it is illegal to watch She-Ra.
You should know, depending on the type and quality of the media, that CD/DVDs degrade over time spanning from 5-20 years (very high quality presses/burns can last upward of 50, but you are likely not doing that at home). Probably doesn’t matter for most use-cases, but just so people don’t get the idea that it’s good for long term storage past those rough estimates.
this is how I ended up finding out there are now much better rips available for many of the shows I burned to DVD in the mid 2000s
Got annoyed when things started coming and going as early as 2018 and started a Blu-Ray collection. About 80% of it is secondhand. I’ll admit I still have a couple streaming services, but all the stuff I know I like is readily and consistently available now.
Ahahaha no way it’s a set up for our benefit it’s gotta be
Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
The crush probably had some incriminating evidence they needed to be disposed of for sure.
Don’t we all… Right?
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 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.
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it!
Rip and burn, until it is done.
Mom said it’s my turn to load Nero now
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 :/
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!
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.
being a millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
Google sucks.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a decade.
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?
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.
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.
Here we go with this normie shit again.
Use Startpage.
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.
Burning CDs is basically the act of transferring music data onto a compact disc-based storage medium.
If you want this in simple terms: When you burn a CD, you’re burning data into the disc.
You actually are (kind of) burning the disc. At least, a layer of organic dye within the disc. With a laser.
Transferring data to a CD with FRICKIN’ LASER BEAMS.
Oh and this is my 718th comment here on Lemmy.ml.
I got a usb cd burner online for $15 recently
What are the price of disks now?
Idk I didn’t buy any hahaha
$15 for 50 DVD-Rs on Amazon
I don’t know, I still have about 30 spare from the turn of the century.
Still usable?
I have absolutely no idea whatsoever.
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.
I mean your laptop… oh right they can’t do that, not anymore.
Fun fact: It actually is kind of burning. With a laser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Writing_methods
Not enough to set it on fire, but enough to change a dye from translucent to opaque.
