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Probably Ubuntu 20.04 before I figured out how to use USB sticks.

this is the type of nostalgia I don't get. I don't miss it one bit. good riddance.

My old car has a cd drive and really good speakers, and I have an old Linux computer with a cd/dvd drive, and cds are really cheap, and I pirate music, so the last time I burnt a cd was yesterday, and not out of novelty but because its the only way I can listen to music in the car.

I will probably burn another cd in the future, but ig you never know, lmao.

I literally burned a copy of xp pro retail onto one of these exact discs last week. The old disc was also a Sony, but it was off centre and would vibrate the shit outta the drive and not read properly.

Never have, I didn't get into Linux ISOs until they needed a DVD for capacity anyway and then shortly after I moved onto USB booting.

speak of CDS (and optical media/physical media?) Fun fact: there are still Video games/Music (even as new as 2025 and soon 2026) distributed in CDS,DVDS and vinyl.
so optical media/physical media are not Dying anytime soon.
(unless you count Blu-rays/Cartridges too,but its only mainly used as a download script on consoles though)

Funny that genA, or maybe genZ even, doesn't understand what "burn" a cd is. They might think we set them on fire or smt..

I might have CDs and CD-ROMs I burned 20 years that are still good, meanwhile some webpages and websites have gone away.

You'll go without doing something for decades, then one day the old knowledge is needed again and you get to dust off those memories.

I have never burned a cd

Not as often CDs but I burn enough DVDs, dual layer DVDs, and Blu-ray disks that I have to purchase 25-100 count spindles multiple times a year.

Pen for scale?

It was porn. Shameful, unexplainable porn.

I didnt destroy it either it just went in a bin somewhere after my last big move. I wish I could see the face of whichever future hobby tech-archeologist finds it.

Couldn't be more happier than when I knew those awful things would become obsolete

7 or 8 years ago. Backing up the document folder on the computer.

Jokes on you, I just bought an old ass dell optiplex. That shit came with a cd drive. I actually didn't even check to see if it would burn tho. And I don't have a CD player. But I could! Probably...

The last CD I burned was when the last Tool album got leaked.

I haven't in a while but I can still see the value

I'm pretty sure that I called it "Beer Drinkin' & Poker Playin' Vol II"

Would have been circa 2006, a fully loaded Windows XP SP2 + hotixes all-in-one installation CD, because I had to reinstall XP on my and friends and family I did tech support for every 6 to 9 months. Otherwise it would gum up and start having unfixable performance or outright faults.

I saw Vista on the horizon and said fuck that shit. Created an Ubuntu install bootable USB drive and dropped all tech support. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to install Linux from scratch. I use Arch btw.

CD - About 8 years ago for plop boot manager, which I last used a few months ago.
DVD - 3 Years ago for a PS2 game, but now I use mx4sio.
Blu-ray - A few months ago to jailbreak a ps5.

No, I still do this for our sega dreamcast.

I’ll go burn a cd right meow. Idgaf.

Considering I have a stack of them still, and not only a working burner but a spare; I doubt I've done my last one yet.

That being said, I only burn them for car use nowadays, and they're mostly burnt as a collection of files rather than as a music cd. So maybe I have and will die before the next time I would. However, I do burn new ones every now and then as copies of specific albums, so unless I die, I'm not likely done until I can't have a cd player in my car at all

Last CD I burned was about a month ago, "As in Gardens, So in Tombs" by ...And Oceans. My car only has a CD player but pretty decent speakers, perfect for the road.

I still have a spool of 100 fresh discs plus a dozen RWs.

that day is yet to come.

A university elective, Games programming. Had an open ended "make a game and write report on how it shows the learning outcomes of the unit".

I made a tiny game, just basic triangles shooting squares at each other on the ps1. I developed and tested with an emulator, but to demo for grading I burnt it to a CD and brought in my ps1

Mine was probably FCKGW-RHQQ2-i forget the rest of the key.

Fuck this sharpie ad. And fuck donald trump

Last week for me. I burned a FreeDOS 1.4 CD to install it on my recently acquired Pentium 4 desktop.

I remember when: 2017. Burned the latest South Park season to DVD for my sister's boyfriend at the time because they didn't have internet nor a flash drive handy.

The Initial D soundtrack so I could listen to it in my 90's Toyota Corolla.
This was in 2019.

~10 years ago i bought one of those sony cd players with the giant carousel that holds like 200 discs. i probably spent a week burning entire discographies.

Almost certainly a Kubuntu live cd for repairing and/or upgrading some old laptop's install.

Just yesterday I burned a cd to listen to in our 2004 corolla. Pretty sure it wasn't the last.

Mine was "Irene's boot CD" so I could reset my friends windows 10 admin password he forgot.