• EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    As someone who worked sales in that time period, yes, it was the younger crowd (Gen X) that adapted much better to burning CDs. A lot of the baby boomers had difficulty with understanding certain key concepts and details. … And instructions to be honest…

    As for the “Boomer” commenter above: the military and government in the USA still burns to CD for a variety of reasons (no, I won’t go into them). So if someone is military, a government employee, or even just a contractor, there is a chance that at some point they will need to burn a CD, regardless of age.

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      2 days ago

      Really? Cause in my time in the army I never once saw any kind of military information being saved to cd. Not once. Never. Even in the early 2000s that was just never a thing. Ever.

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        10 hours ago

        Sounds like you might not have been part of a team that needed to do so. In the environments I had been part of, they had requirements for it.

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          5 hours ago

          We always used a black box thing, can’t remember what it was called, to load cypher to anything that was military equipment like radios and nav systems, and thumb drives for anything else.

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        I requested my medical records from my time in the military in 2014 and received them on CD. Which was funny because I didn’t have a computer that could read them at the time, and I still haven’t read them. Turns out the information i needed was already available to the people giving my c&p exam