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[–] 69 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

Yes, with fire. The Romans originally tried it, which is what led to Nero accidentally burning down ROMe.

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  • [–] 61 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Yeah, like Nero ... burning Rom(e).

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Not once did I consider why it was called Nero.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    I had that same eye opening moment with Tinder.

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  • [–] 60 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    I captured, taped, burned, and also ripped!

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  • [–] 54 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

    being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Methinks she was pretending to not (know how to) know for the bants

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Google sucks.

    I've been using DuckDuckGo for a decade.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    DuckDuckGo is basically just Bing with a bit more privacy and Bing search results suck too.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Dunno, ddg delivers what I need.

    What do you use search engines for?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 102 points 10 months ago (27 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 74 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago* (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Watching media more than once? This kills the child!

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What’s your drive of choice? And what enclosure do you like?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (12 children)
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                           Win XP  
    

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)
    Starcraft 1 - 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
    

    (for some reason all 3s worked)

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    No, but literally burning them was fun because of the colorful flames and smoke. And the burning lungs.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    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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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    Ahahaha no way it's a set up for our benefit it's gotta be

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