Yes, with fire. The Romans originally tried it, which is what led to Nero accidentally burning down ROMe.
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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.
I had that same eye opening moment with Tinder.
I had a cracked copy of Nero I used to pirate Dreamcast games.
Was a pretty good hustle for a bit
Well yes, the incantation typically involved calling upon the ghost of the Emperor Nero.
I captured, taped, burned, and also ripped!
Rip and burn, until it is done.
Dual cassette decks baby, all the C64 games you could ever wish for!

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!
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
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.
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.
Also DDG have their own crawler, so they can deliver more results than Bing.
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.
I did one on how to design teletext pages. On a separate and unrelated issue, my joints hurt.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Does this mean the case of 5.25" DVD burners I have will be worth something again?
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.
Ssd's and thumb drives are soooo much easier though Get jellyfin to serve it to your tv
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.
I believe a hard drive is cheaper now.
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 XP
GXYPJ-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
Same for Counter-Strike 1.6, but there it was
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Is this an illegal number?
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Those need special blank cd’s
It's called cdimage
And it worked for me: https://lemmy.world/post/30813500
I 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 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.
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