Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Dvd (+/-)r for an Xbox 360. I don't personally use the media often, but I do like blessing friends if they ask.

About a year ago, burned my family photo collection as yet another backup. Took a stack of DVD-R's to write, but now I also have it in one more format!

One of my professors in college demanded the class turn in a video production assignment as DVDs.

..... This was in 2018

I was the only one in the class who even had a DVD burner (.... Because I'd used it some years prior for PS2 games piracy and it was still in my storage box)

So the class bought a spindle of DVDs and I spent an afternoon burning everyone's assignments to DVDs.

No idea what would have happened if they didn't have a pet ultranerd like me. Like, did teach expect 'em to go and buy a USB DVD burner just for that?

I maintain a collection of PCs stretching back to the late 90's, so I still regularly burn CDs and DVDs of install media for the ones that can't boot from USB. I should try to get PXE working on my network, but using physical media is fast and convenient for me. I also occasionally burn extra backups to BD-R media.

I want to burn some family photos on an M-Disc, I bought a bluray burner and some discs and they wait on the shelf now.

I burned SM64 to a cd the other day because I was testing the psx port (doesn't work on real hardware yet). I use optical media all the time.

I've been on a retro kick. Recently I've been messing with a Pentium 233 MMX. I burned a tinycore Linux CD a couple days ago so I could make this:

I burned 4 low quality kids movies on a disk for the dvd player in my wife's SUV.

Of course they all have devices now and access to jellyfin

Probably like a dreamcast game or a mixtape for the car

made a beatles mixtape.. all songs that didn’t get radio play.
tried to do gapless playback but it fucked up.
now i use usb drives or hard drives

I was debating just now burning a DBAN disk just to use the ancient HP I recovered to wipe old IDE hard disks.

That idea broke down when when I realized that the ribbon connector was actual floppy and there was no IDE connector.

It broke down further when I tested the optical drive with another disk to see if I could stubbornly use it with a USB IDE adapter. The drive didn't seem to spin up and I'm not wasting my time burning a drive when I have other options.

I finally grabbed a Linux Mint live USB and another computer. I'm supposedly running shred on the drive, but I forgot to include output so I'll just know when I get back in to work Monday. Top does say shred is using processor cycles, so I guess it's fine.

The last DVD burned was a release candidate for Debian buster. The last CD was a full i386 install of OpenBSD 6.4 for a ThinkPad T43p. Both happened in the last decade (2010's).

I've ripped several music CD's and movie DVD's since then, but using it as a storage device just isn't a thing any more.

Last burned a PS4 jailbreak bluray 😏

PS2 games.

DVD was to make a physical media of streaming content for a relative who doesn’t use technology but wanted to watch it. This would’ve been about 5 years ago ish since we don’t see them much anymore.

CD was about 3 years ago for my car since its head unit didn’t have car play. We’ve since purchased an iPod 7th gen to do the job.

A PS2 game to test FreeDVDBoot on the PS2 Slim https://youtu.be/ez0y-hz3VuM

Last CD was probably back in 2011 and was Rise Against - Appeal to Reason and the last game I burned was probably back in 2009 and was Kingdom hearts 2. Have moved on to having “backups” on my HDD or getting them on Steam.

I bought an external DVD burner and a small pack of DVDs in 2023. Pretty sure I was burning gparted or some other recovery type LiveCD. It was some sort of Hail Mary on a retro project, or something.

But yeah, optical media bad.

I usually burn CDs for retro software for my 98 machine where just loading from ISO is just not good enough. Last time I burnt one I guess was a few months ago.

I sell my own fanart/merch at video game conventions as a side hustle & last year I burned 100 CDs of D&B/Jungle/Happy Hardcore music and handed them out to anyone that bought $50+ worth of stuff. Everyone thought it was awesome. I actually bumped into one of the guys I handed a CD to at another convention a few weeks ago and he told me I inspired him to burn his own CDs. Which was very validating lol

I don't think I ever burned a DVD (did rip some), but was making copies of my CDs for use in my car up to about 2010 before I got into the mp3 player game. Then it was just ripping. Still would be ripping, but no longer have a drive for that. That computer ate it a few years ago. I should have been more proactive. Maybe will borrow the one from work that has a Jimmy Buffet disc in it.

oh man. totally don't remember. I wish they were more robust and lasted longer as there is tons I would do if it was less common for them to die when sitting around.

2018/2019 map update for a 2003 Mercedes. Didn't work though, probably bad optical drive or something.

I burnt a freedvdboot disc yesterday to flash a freemcboot memory card for my PS2.

That's the first time I've burnt a disc since I chipped my PS1 in ~2018

My summer mix '08

About 6-7 years ago. I had a friend who still had some files on a 5-1/4 floppy. I kept an old Win95 PC specifically with a bunch of old drive types and a DVD burner, so I could rescue old files & move them to DVD. Sadly, that PC stopped booting about 2 years ago. I did consider trying to resurrect it, but neither of my current PCs even have a built-in DVD drive, so I think it's safe to say that moving files to DVD isn't moving the files forward enough anymore.

I just bought 3 used dvds yesterday, haven't burned them yet. I bought a CD last year, and I burned it... it was an album of Rihanna's greatest hits

I rip music to play in the car for my kids. Mostly mix tracks they like.

It has been so long that recently I borrowed a portable DVD drive to extract auto diagnostic software, completely forgetting I have a laptop with a DVD drive.

Pretty sure it was MacOS install media. Probably a decade ago or so.

Hey kids! Pirating is cool, right? Who here likes to pirate, my friends? /s