You can make a million other hand-made things. But sure bring back obsolete tech.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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While your jacking off into your Xfinity/Comcast/NBC/Meta/Google/Micorosft/Amazon DNA test to prove you’re allowed to watch the next ad that only plays while it detects your eyeballs on the screen…
I’ll be watching Lord of The Rings Extended Edition on Blue Ray.
My friend and I got an old optiplex and upgraded it with a burner so we can make CDs. It's actually quite nice to have a physical medium for music in the car, and make mixes for different moods that you can switch between. We also know some people with older cars that only have CD and radio or the Bluetooth sucks so we'll make CDs for them too. Tons of fun and you can buy a usb CD / DVD burner for like $10 or $15 and CD-Rs are fairly cheap.
Building a dedicated machine for this is such a cool idea. It’s a great reminder that 'outdated' tech still has so much value and can bring people together. Those friends with the older cars are lucky to have you!
No, end physical media and these short lived plastics that end up in landfill.
Can't tell if a AI slop article, or just really bad writing
Only if burned from FLAC or similar. But also no. 700MB and super slow. Take an old Android phone with an SD card in it and turn it into a WiFi server. Let people connect to it and take what they want. iPhone, Android, Windows, macOS, doesn't matter, it'll connect to it.
I still have my Blu-ray burner and a bunch of blank blue rays. When does the digital orgy start?
lets not bring back the worse tech in history, k thanks.
i have to ask, has any downvoter ever used a cd?
Why do you consider it the worst? I've burned a fair share of coasters in my time but once the data is on there, CDs/DVDs are pretty reliable
lets see, they take forever to burn, they burn error rate is huge, they are physically large and have tiny capacity, they scratch, you have to handle them carefully, they often stop working due to scratches or just the top of the cd getting a chip or bubble.
increase the capacity of minidiscs and bring them back, a format everyone loved