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.
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.
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 ;)
What do you use for burning blu-rays? I’ve recently been getting into it as a hobby.
DVD Studio Pro was legit.
I did the full Final Cut —> Compressor + Motion for menu animations —> DVD Studio Pro then burned a stack of discs and applied labels
Completely unnecessary, but fun
Way easier to write a couple h264 rips in mkv onto one 4.7 GB dvd.
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
I only rip them for jellyfin
Does this mean the case of 5.25" DVD burners I have will be worth something again?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, with fire. The Romans originally tried it, which is what led to Nero accidentally burning down ROMe.
Never knew that was a history reference.
If I am correctly informed… it is not history…
I miss Nero. It was a great at burning things.
deleted by creator
Go to jail
I captured, taped, burned, and also ripped!
Rip and burn, until it is done.
Mom said it’s my turn to load Nero now
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!
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!
Yeah, like Nero … burning Rom(e).
Not once did I consider why it was called Nero.
I totally get that. Took me a while too and then I felt so dumb, because their logo was the colosseum in flames and everything made so much sense in hindsight.
It was literally called Nero Burning ROM.
And the icon was a picture of a burning colloseum, incase the name went over your head.
I had that same eye opening moment with Tinder.
Cos you spend half the time rubbing someone’s wood?
Because you have tinder and you swipe your matches.
ooohhh!
Well yes, the incantation typically involved calling upon the ghost of the Emperor Nero.
I had a cracked copy of Nero I used to pirate Dreamcast games.
Was a pretty good hustle for a bit
being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
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
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?
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.
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.
kagi
Also DDG have their own crawler, so they can deliver more results than Bing.
Here we go with this normie shit again.
Use Startpage.
They use AI, which feeds them some bullshit story instead.
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.
I burnt a CD yesterday.
Win XPGXYPJ-4W67Q-6273F-QJ7FR-9MW4M
Starcraft 1 - 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333(for some reason all 3s worked)
For StarCraft, the installer would do some math on all but the last number, then see if the result of that matched the last number to decide if the key was valid. So you could enter random numbers, then just retry while changing the last digit and guess a valid key in max 10 tries
Or 11 - the last digit could be X (for ten) if they were using the modulo 11 check digit system.
Same for Counter-Strike 1.6, but there it was
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
XCNF8-R99R9-R4XV8-2VQD7-FJP6M
Is this an illegal number?
only illegal if Microsoft still supported XP.
Wasn’t that FCKGW-RHQQ2-YX… Something 🤣 knew that entire key for a pretty long time, but looks like it starts to fade.
This is how Elrond felt when someone spoke the words from the one ring.
No, but literally burning them was fun because of the colorful flames and smoke. And the burning lungs.
Spicy rainbow fires are the best.
Personalising CDs with 5 seconds in a microwave was always entertaining. I even got some tracks to “play” afterwards.
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.
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?
The other day my cousin asked what blu-ray was. I felt so old.
Burning CD’S aside, does she think we did this to get a text? 🤣🤣 this shit was before mobile phone were a thing, and when you had one as a teen you still couldn’t afford to text for hours on end
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.
Edit: i don’t mean the label side but the data side. But has similiar problems with supported players.
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
Ay. Light Bright
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?
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.
My.father burned thousands of CDs and DVDs to coax the old gods into giving him money. It took him 5 years to realize he was literally breaking even wasting hours a day. We had a hell of a dvd collection tho
That’s definitely peak dad energy. My dad would burn literally everything we rented, and later got through the mail from Netflix, even if he didn’t watch or care about the movie.
I think it just makes them feel powerful, rubbing it in the FBI warnings face.
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.
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.
I thought it was the captain crunch whistle that started the phreaker era
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.
