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…
You’re clearly missing the joke.
*I can tell because you almost said aCHuAlLy and tried to tell people something detailed but off topic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
