When was the last time you used this?

when was the last time you used this?

a few months ago when i bought Doom 2016 on disc. its like 70GB, 8 of which were on the disc.

3 years ago when I couldnt find a usb stick and had to use an old ubuntu cd to troubleshoot my laptop

goes to show how right apple was though, everybody at the time called them retarded for removing the cd drive and now its ridiculous to think about having one

last year when handing in my thesis, whose files have to be included on DVD

they were right about that, and due to their previous influence including this, they think they can just control the entire industry, which just so happens to entail colluding with the Bluetooth headphone industry to make everyone buy new headphones (incl. beats and airpods) and make a shit ton of money

Today.

Two weeks ago to burn some DVD's

yesterday

This week. Ripped a CD. Primus' latest.

couple days ago to play Simcity 4

Unsurprisingly, I needed it for the commercial world.

I wanted to buy an audiobook but audible doesn't support linux and the publisher offered it on mp3 cd, but not mp3 download. So I had to buy the item, break out my optical drive, copy over the files, then listen. It was like the fucking seventies.

1945

>70GB
Really? I kind of get that there's no reason for games to not use the resources that everyone has, but that just seems ridiculous.

Reinstalling Windows Vista on a DELL XPS 430
I don't remember when Vista was a thing, but 7 wasn't out yet

I burned a CD for my car last week

Yesterday when I applied a WSUS cumulative update to an offline Windows Server 2003 unit, had trouble mounting the ISO and DVD was just easier.
Before that, a Blu-Ray M-DISC for archiving some data last month.

Where do I get this cup holder for my computer?

Yesterday to fap over some homemade porn of me and fat ex-gf.
Hearing her moan again made me jizz in no time.

I honestly cannot remember, but certainly not since at least mid 2014, maybe early 2015 at the very latest. In fact to conserve power I dont even have one in my computer

>talking about Apple
>VERY GAY !

>It was like the fucking seventies
I knew they called it "the swinging 60's" but I never knew they called the 1970's "The fucking seventies"

In the strictest sense of your question, the very last time I used one was in September of 2017 to install a driver for my telescope. That was a one off event though since I really haven't used one for any meaningful and important work since 2009

Hey man.

Monday

All the time.
Its a cheap way to make write once storage.

Am I supposed to know who those faggot are?

Yes

About ten years ago

Jebus cripes. I just realized I installed $CURRENT_DISTRO in 2017 and still haven't installed disc burning software.

It’s about 50. It’s mostly uncompressed sound files, I imagine it helps deter pirating because people don’t want to torrent a 50gb download for 1 game.

Probably a few months ago when I was burning PS1 games for my PS2. I’ve since then hacked my PS3 so I don’t need to do that anymore, though.

I bought a DVD of yoyo tricks 7 years ago

Why did Apple received so much shit when they removed it in the macbook air? They weren’t even the first one to do it.

That's a funky bunch.

Last week to rip some CDs at my school library.

Today to boot off a Windows 10 DVD on a desktop that kept booting into recovery mode.

Few weeks ago burning DVD's of movies for niece/nephew, since my sister/mother are apparently too lazy to stream via flashdrive/other device and when they did do it that way I'd never get the fucking drives back.

This is a pretty regular occurrence.

Just today when watching my disk set of Married with Children

>$CURRENT_DISTRO
please fuck off and die Linuxfag

GTA V would like a word with you

The Orange Box 10 years ago

Today. disk is way easier and better.

couple months ago.
i burned a dvd of nudes i took of girls to hide because my ex gf was going through my computer trying to find shit.
i copied them back once i left her.

A few days ago. Needed to run Memtest via Falcon Four boot CD.

I do not own a single device that can play optical media.

today.
I covert old VHS to DVDs for old people
Some also use phones to i also put the movie into theirs

Inserting a physical copy of star wars battlefront 1. The OLD battlefront 1
Mm nostalgia

Oh ok

Yesterday, to watch this DVD classic

> I imagine it helps deter pirating because people don’t want to torrent a 50gb download for 1 game

I imagine it's the same deal for those who go DDL legitimately.

Today to burn evidence to submit for trial.

Monthly

It's also because the DLC for them multi and snap map is downloaded whether you use it or not.

When the power was out a few weeks ago to watch a DVD. Good thing my laptop was charged.

Last year, I burned GTA:SA to a DVD to play on the PS2

Yesterday, to burn a CD-R from iTunes to play in my car which has a 6-disc CD changer. And yes all those things are true. I still live in 2008.

is not the same, pirates can use repacks

Last night when I popped the Al Jarreau CD in there for sweet music while I banged your mom.

t.
Dad

Nah it’s not that, it’s just that torrents need a lot of bandwidth in order to be worth it, and if there isn’t a lot of bandwidth from the seeders it could take days to download 50Gb from a public tracker. It’s not super difficult, it’s just sort of a deterrent for some people. With DDL like Steam, there’s no risk of losing seeds after you get to 90% or something, it’s always there so you can start the download and forget about it.

>letting literally anyone go through your computer.
fucking brainlet.

Today for work, reinstalled windows and system software on an electron microscope with no usb support

Also needed to use a boot floppy to get into the windows installer

last weekend to rip a japanese choir concert bluray

>disc burning software
dd is part of the coreutils.

>LINUXFAG
HAHAHHAHAHA
STAY MAD BOTNETFAG

Couple of months ago wrote w7 iso to the dvd for my cousin. I think it was first time in like 4 years.

Go watch Boogie Nights, and then glory in your new found taste

lies

I still use mine fairly regularly. I still rip discs from time to time. That and I picked up a several hundred blank dvds at a yard sale for cheap a few years ago. So generally when someone wants some files from me, I'll give them a dvd.

2 weeks ago when I reinstalled Windows 8.1 using a burned DVD.

>its like 70GB, 8 of which were on the disc
Disgusting. Blu-ray needs to be more widely used.

2 years ago I installed Starcraft from my old CD.

about a week ago, burned a CD with some music

I'm gonna use it today to burn mp3 cd for 5 hours long drive I'm planning tomorrow. No usb in the car and aux jack for some retarded reason is located in the glove compartment, so cd's are the only option

>home
maybe 2 years ago, swapped odd with hdd caddy
>work
due to ancient rules, we deliver copies of documentation on cd's.
Fun fact: Burning literally thousands of cd after cd for straight 8 hours a day, 5 days in a row on 4 cheap lenovo (non chinkpad) laptops:
a)is extremely boring, (god thanks for burnaware's commandline options so I could one-click burn a folder)
b)somehow doesn't kill those old optical drives (well, one tend to overheat and needed 15min of cooldown sometimes)

i dont even have a DVD-ROM installed

A year or two ago i was fucking around with linux distros on my pc then tried to go back to windows but realise i'd put a linux iso on my windows install drive. After trying for about 3-4 hours with loads of different isos trying to make a bottable windows drive from linux i remembered i had an xp disc in my drawer

I burned Crazy Taxi for Dreamcast last week

a few days back when installing WIndows on my VM, it needed drivers for SATA controller, so I've plugged in the disc that came with the controller.

Can't remember. I put a dvd reader in my rig when I built it 6 years ago and haven't even used it once.

I haven't used it for so long that it actually stopped working.

Every day.
I backup all of my steam games to discs because I like physical media and also I backup my NAS zsnaps on optical media for cold storage.

Also for making installion isos.

Last night, burning a CD for my Windows 98 machine.

I don't have any more disk drives. So a long time.

I do have a spindle with empty cd's though.

Stopped using them almost ten years ago. And by 2010 I had no devices capable of reading optical media in my house.

Just now, to spin-up a w7 VM.

Apple are faggots, here's why: non-neckbeards with jobs to do don't have time to make .iso images from every disc they come across in the wild.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD, assholes.

A disc is also easy to identify visually, and cheap enough to dedicate to one package of software or data, so they are easy to locate and organize.

Can't say that about the stacks of USB disks lying around here.

So, smart Japanese engineers like the ones a Toshiba continue to make laptops with optical drives (why not?), expandable RAM (they last forever, Tosh lappys) and replaceable batteries.

As long as optical disks exist, why should I give up having a cheap and handy optical drive built right in to my full size laptop?

All y'all want to cuck yourselves looking aroung for an external drive, power brick, and all that shit whenever you come across disc, follow crApple into the dark and go cuck yourselves.

Much easier to just put a fucking disk in the drive. Do we remove the command line, because we have a GUI?

No.

Who let the 50y/o help desker in?

Like it's something to be proud of, LOL.

"I used to have a dick, and be able to fuck, but I cut it off in 2010 and now I only have things I can stick up my anus. I'm so mod!"

Hey, spawn of September That Never Ended, here's a protip:

You don't know jack sprog.

I just checked amazon though and a pack of like 15 25gb disks is like 70$

Two days ago, to install W7 on a laptop.

I'm proud of accelerating the death of slow, noisy, low-capacity and fragile media.

Blu Rays are literally just CDs with a different wavelength and 10 times the retarded patents. They should be banned.

yesterday

A week ago, I made a Windows 7 DVD for a friend.

For personal reasons - this.

I work at a school and we have to hand in recordings of the vocal portion of exams on CDs (just in case someone complains about their result). But that's pretty much the only reason for handling CDs these days.

Why go through that hassle when you could have just made an encrypted container. Much safer than burning onto a dvd that she might see and check out

Yesterday, but it's sad, did you know that my motherboard and many others no longer support basic things like flashing your bios with a DVD, and now you HAVE to use Flash media?

A while back to reinstall Windows on a laptop. It simply refused to boot from USB, so I burned a CD and did it the old fashioned way.

??
Early Fei XL30s with acer altos towers had no USB ports and no cd boot option

Some time last year, ripped a cd. I can't trust the flacs I find online.