this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 88 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah, think I'm gonna buy one

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for alerting me there's a link!

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I didn't want to post a link myself, because I didn't know if that was OK in this sub, but it was pretty easy to find by searching "CD-R mirror".

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Someone else posted a link :)

But yeah I probably could have just found it 😅

Hope you have a lovely day ☺️

[–] pfr 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I'll pay that. I'd put that on my wall for real

[–] Mim@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Same. Where can I get one?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can buy them at my etsy [here].

[–] Mim@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Oh shit, you can actually find them there.
Not that I'd trust Thema, but still.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh, it's only 13" diameter? I'd rather just hang a real laserdisc on the wall in that case.

I want a CD-R mirror that's like 3' wide.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's still amazing IMO.

A real laserdisc on your wall feels like a genuine statement piece, as if you're into classic movies and old tech in a totally unironic way.

The beauty of this huge CR-R is that it's modelled after a completely normal and cheap as hell blank disc that came in spindles of 100 that you'd be slapping your MP3s on, and scribbling labels over with black marker pen.

Its beauty is in the surreal and absurd tribute to a completely boring and everyday item.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Why? At least go for RW

[–] Mim@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Between 54€ and 57€ over here 😬

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It's not a CD-RW.

Not worth ibuying.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

CD-R works better in my car and Discman

You have a discman? Cooooool!

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

CD-RW quality only approached "worth a shit" around the time DVD-R became common, and still didn't work in most devices.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol, what about cd+rw? Didn't those have better compatibility?

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I honestly could barely remember that there were two, let alone which was better.

I do remember the better one was pointlessly more expensive. For the same price, I could usually get twice as many CD-Rs when I needed more, although it might come down to whether I wanted them with cases or on a spindle.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

CD-RW was generally more of a gimmick than a useful format - especially once flash drives appeared and then doubled in size every several months.

CD-R was king for burning audio CDs or general data (until DVD-R came along).

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

cd-rw were very useful when internets were dialled-up (or later ADSL) and you were working on large image files on different desktops

gimmick was the zip driveZIP 250 USB Drive

CD-RW was the lifeblood of my mp3-discman, i just loved to be able to add songs i just discovered!

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's Microsoft activation key isn't it

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago

For windows xp :3

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I like it. Yes it’s real. Amazon has it, but it’d be better to buy elsewhere if possible.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

turns out, this is $20 on Amazon

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

This is awesome!

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

Looks like a death star with the reflection