Damn this pic made me think of the struggle and how we wished for there to be a good format without this problem.
Then came bluray, famous for being scratch proof, and then we all decided optical disks aren’t as easy as little thumb drives.
It’s just not as satisfying as burning something new and then labeling it.
and then we all decided optical disks aren’t as easy as little thumb drives.
I just couldn’t watch The Hobbit on linux, i guess because the new keys used aren’t leaked yet (Video too new) or my drive (running a whole fuking VM) is too new, who knows?
Now imagine what they would’ve done with thumb drives? Just a remember; SSD are still running a blackbox firmware emulating a HDD.
It felt better knowing you can be without the internet, now we all stay connected for better or for worse.
Brass cleaner, a microfiber cloth, and some elbow grease can fix any scratched disc. Apply liberally, rub in a circular, outward motion (against the “grain”, i.e. against the pits where the data stream is stored). Repeat until disc works again.
I had a friend who didn’t take very good care of his games. When the game would stop loading, he’d let me keep it. They always came back to life using the Brasso technique. Got to enjoy a lot of free Xbox games thanks to him. Halo 2 was an especially memorable experience. My brother and I got many years of entertainment out of that one.
I hear toothpaste can be used which is a mild abrasive
Brasso also does great stuff for fogged headlights (if it’s just external)
If you use a coarse sandpaper on the label side they clean up real quick.
It’s clearly a CD-R*; just burn another copy…
* I can tell from the color and burning quite a few CD-Rs in my time…
The Memorex logo doesn’t hurt either :P
You’re clearly missing the joke.
*I can tell because you almost said aCHuAlLy and tried to tell people something detailed but off topic.
Dangit - I hate when that happens 🥺
That’s why to keep a backup, as is your legal right.
Unless the source contains some sort of DRM and you’re a citizen of the USA. In that case, your rights were stolen from you by the DMCA.
Fuck the law, copy it anyways.
Legality =/= Morality
You say that like a lot of us care lol. I choose to interpret DRM as disco rave music.
Nah, just adding color to the discussion. I run a 7-bay NAS that I built myself (3D printed case). I’m definitely not too concerned about respecting DRM/DMCA, but I don’t like having my legal rights stripped from me by some back door shenanigans.
I get you. DRM is absolutely ridiculous in implementation, but I’ve just kinda accepted it as it is what it is, and then promptly veer around it. Like I’m not opposed to paying my fair share for something, but I have zero sympathy for greedy executives that arbitrarily raise prices or pull other anti-consumer bullshit to make the imaginary line go up, especially on old digital content that is long past it’s profit peak.
I’m not a citizen of the USA. Can i expect a unDRMed video?
All I can say is that you’ll have to check local laws, etc. around circumvention but most digital goods have DRM of some sort these days it seems.
Only if your backup (or restore) process circumvents the DRM. But, yes, fuck the DMCA.
On that subject, copyright is a broken system, and I don’t think anyone should feel compelled to participate in it anymore. You should try to compensate creators, but copyright theft is just the norm for corporations now (not just LLMs either, legal fictions have let Disney justify not paying on some of their licenses) so you do you.
I don’t think anyone should feel compelled to participate in it anymore
Oh, was i supposed to feel that way at some point? Whoops!
Yes, laws should take root in the hearts of the people. When they fail to, no amount of policing will make their practice universal.
That said, copyright hasn’t been working well for quite a while.
I follow laws when it makes sense to.
[fingers in ears] Lalalalalalala I can’t hear you!
You go to pick up the CD from your friend’s place.
“Hey the CD is not in it’s case”
Your friend looks around their room, finds it on the carpeted floor next to their bed.
“Oh here it is” … it’s got sauce on it and he cleans it off by wiping it on their jeans … “here, thanks man”
he cleans it off by wiping it on their jeans
In a circular motion even though you explained the center out is the better option.
I made quite a bit of money off people in my HS parking lot with one of those disk doctors.
This is why I refused my mom lending out my dvd. She get mad, forgetting she taught me not loan out your stuff. She had huge VHS collection and now and then someone would borrow one and never return it.
But yes don’t loan out your games either.
I’m a 40-something year old man now but your comment gave me flashbacks to my childhood stuff getting destroyed by the kids of my mother’s friends, who she would just let “borrow” my shit.
I still don’t know who ended up with my Game Boy and all my games. And I’m still salty, half an eternity later.
I am still pissed at the person who "borrow " my DS and all my games and then gotten them "stolen ". I had borh Zelda games and rockband. Long with 20 other games. Dating a woman and she did that.
Why never loan out my shit period.
That’s when you let your 14 year old friends “borrow” mum’s panties.
Not so nice when the panty is on the other ass, is it?
I’m hesitant to even loan books out to people, I really don’t want dog ears or page 46-47 stuck together with ranch dressing or ranch dressing.
Oh pisses me off when people dog ear books.
I say I like physical media so I could lend them to family.
But really I ain’t lending anyone shit.
It is a joke. Loan out stuff. You will get better friends.
Just slap some toothpaste on that sucker and it’ll be good as new.
Instructions unclear. Brushed teeth with CD. My gums hurt now. Tastes like a penny.
My friends actually took good care of borrowed CDs. My older brother, on the other hand… One time I handed him down a PSOne (back in 2006 i think, he was never big in videogames, but he played once in a while) - the dense fucker kept a thesaurus on top because he couldn’t figure how to close the lid (there was a small, bumpy part next to the open button, you had to press the lid there so it’d click close). That almost fucked the actual clicky thing
That shit still played though. Those reading lasers were tough to beat.
Getting DVDs from the library be like…
I used to have a friend like that. On an unrelated note, I haven’t spoken to him in 11 years
SNES save game slot erased
Then they, and anybody else thinks you’re a selfish dick for not lending games out to anyone anymore.
