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Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor
I think i’ve still never been more impressed by a program name since. you’re literally “Burning ROM”…
Oh my God
Right, only took me almost twenty years too
I’m so fucking impressed, and simultaneously I feel like a dumbass for never getting it
Oh, like Rome.
Did you mean to link me to the chocolate milk comment? Have I hurt you in some way‽ D: haha
I love this comment chain so much. You have not linked anything now. Lmao
What! I see the link! To be fair, this is the first time I tried linking stuff. The first time I tried to use the app’s share function, but the second I copied the link. Interesting
On the mac, there was Toast (it burns), and Nero had an ad that said that they “Eat Toast for Breakfast.”
What a great era for software branding.
The naming is one thing I legitimately like about the whole Linux/GNU/FOSS world.
Things are still named by nerds/enthusiasts who have some spark of joy and fun left in their hearts. Could you imagine a sanitized corporate software product released today with a name that directly refers to the established product it is meant to displace?
For example, things like GNU’s Not Unix or my favorite remotely accessible text/terminal based email client I used around the turn of the century, PINE Is Not Elm.
Then you get fun second-order software names like GIMP, too.
It’s all so preferable to the commercial software branding world where even though the visual presentation is extremely samey (everybody switching to the same popular boring fonts and removing logos/artwork), the actual brands are often made up silly words that are easy to get the domain name and the social handles for.
Be sure to follow BONTO! on all your favorite trillion dollar propaganda and surveillance platforms!
Corporate word processing software: Word
Apple’s photo management software: Photos
DUDE
Nero Burning ROM … such a good name ah
Yes, with fire. The Romans originally tried it, which is what led to Nero accidentally burning down ROMe.
Never knew that was a history reference.
If I am correctly informed… it is not history…
I miss Nero. It was a great at burning things.
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Go to jail
I captured, taped, burned, and also ripped!
Rip and burn, until it is done.
buffer underrunStop! You’re scaring me!
good, so you better have a decent transfer rate or you will destroy all those sweet discs!
– - ( ( ( cyclic redundancy eRrRoOoOoOrRrRr! ) ) ) - –
Ah, you amateurs with your slow hdd / bad partitioning / fragmentation / uncontrolled background processes!
I had a slow ass windows 98 pc back then, get off my back :/
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Mom said it’s my turn to load Nero now
Dual cassette decks baby, all the C64 games you could ever wish for!
Wait until you hear about the band who put a c64 program into the runoff area of their vinyl.
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it!
I am Ripper… Tearer… Slasher… Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength… and Lust… and Power! I AM BEOWULF!
Yeah, like Nero … burning Rom(e).
Not once did I consider why it was called Nero.
I totally get that. Took me a while too and then I felt so dumb, because their logo was the colosseum in flames and everything made so much sense in hindsight.
It was literally called Nero Burning ROM.
And the icon was a picture of a burning colloseum, incase the name went over your head.
Well yes, the incantation typically involved calling upon the ghost of the Emperor Nero.
I had a cracked copy of Nero I used to pirate Dreamcast games.
Was a pretty good hustle for a bit
being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
Methinks she was pretending to not (know how to) know for the bants
Or rather didn’t particularly care, but found more fun in imagining more fantastical scenarios to entertain herself.
quite possibly, not very well versed in the social media arts
Google sucks.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a decade.
DuckDuckGo is basically just Bing with a bit more privacy and Bing search results suck too.
Dunno, ddg delivers what I need.
What do you use search engines for?
If it does was you need it to do you should definitely use it, privacy vise it’s obviously way better than google. Haven’t tried in in about 2 years, maybe the search results got better but the last time I tried it often presented me weird sites that technically contained the words I searched for but were completely irrelevant - entered the same question onto Google and immediately got me a stack overflow question that was practically the same question I had but phrased a bit differently. But as I said, maybe it’s no longer so bad as when I tried it.
For a long time I used DuckDuckGo for everything except specific error messages, because Google was better at those, but Google got more shitty and so did stack overflow, so I don’t bother much with Google anymore.
Here we go with this normie shit again.
Use Startpage.
They use AI, which feeds them some bullshit story instead.
Fun fact: It actually is kind of burning. With a laser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Writing_methods
Not enough to set it on fire, but enough to change a dye from translucent to opaque.
I burnt a CD yesterday.
Win XPGXYPJ-4W67Q-6273F-QJ7FR-9MW4M
Starcraft 1 - 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333(for some reason all 3s worked)
For StarCraft, the installer would do some math on all but the last number, then see if the result of that matched the last number to decide if the key was valid. So you could enter random numbers, then just retry while changing the last digit and guess a valid key in max 10 tries
Or 11 - the last digit could be X (for ten) if they were using the modulo 11 check digit system.
Same for Counter-Strike 1.6, but there it was
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
All 3’s worked too for CS (at least 1.5), that’s what we used
Is this an illegal number?
only illegal if Microsoft still supported XP.
Wasn’t that FCKGW-RHQQ2-YX… Something 🤣 knew that entire key for a pretty long time, but looks like it starts to fade.
XCNF8-R99R9-R4XV8-2VQD7-FJP6M
This is how Elrond felt when someone spoke the words from the one ring.
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
No, but literally burning them was fun because of the colorful flames and smoke. And the burning lungs.
Spicy rainbow fires are the best.
Personalising CDs with 5 seconds in a microwave was always entertaining. I even got some tracks to “play” afterwards.
Burning CD’S aside, does she think we did this to get a text? 🤣🤣 this shit was before mobile phone were a thing, and when you had one as a teen you still couldn’t afford to text for hours on end
and when you had one as a teen you still couldn’t afford to text for hours on end
And neither could my parents as it turned out
My.father burned thousands of CDs and DVDs to coax the old gods into giving him money. It took him 5 years to realize he was literally breaking even wasting hours a day. We had a hell of a dvd collection tho
That’s definitely peak dad energy. My dad would burn literally everything we rented, and later got through the mail from Netflix, even if he didn’t watch or care about the movie.
I think it just makes them feel powerful, rubbing it in the FBI warnings face.
I have not yet met a young person who doesn’t know what a CD is. I feel like the internet has pranked me.
It was them, wasn’t it? The kids. They started this rumor did they not? They’re laughing at us right now, aren’t they? They’re reading this comment and they know I fell for it.
But if you ask them what burning a cd is I bet they think it’s setting them on fire, not writing data to the disk.
The other day my cousin asked what blu-ray was. I felt so old.
There was also a software to burn pictures in the disc via the burn patterns. There’s a open source project now but it didn’t work for me.
Edit: i don’t mean the label side but the data side. But has similiar problems with supported players.
The first laptop I bought had a DVD burner which came with support for LightScribe, which required discs with a special coating. You designed a cover, put the disc in your drive upside down and it would burn the image into the disc. You could only do grayscale as far as I know, but I still thought it was pretty neat at the time.
It was pretty neat but if you kept the CDs in your car they basically fell apart.
Those need special blank cd’s
Ay. Light Bright
I had one of those “LightScribe” burners. I think I only used it a couple of times because the media was much more expensive than standard CD-R and I didn’t care enough to get good at it. It was just a slow extra step when I’m trying to burn a quick cd before I head to the bus stop in the morning.
Funnily, burning the lightscribe cd was faster than the first mp3 player I had. My first mp3 player was a Creative something or other with 32mb of storage. Adding the ~15 songs you could fit on it took fucking donkey’s years.
It’s called cdimage
And it worked for me: https://lemmy.world/post/30813500I am linking through lemmy.world because SDF isn’t doing all too well.
there is very little support for lemmy at sdf. one of the nodes has had a hardware failure and will need to be replaced. the nodes are also in need of new fans and larger disks, but that requires support.
I think the one i used was named different? Maybe i’ll try again, thanks!
You know what would be magic? If you could boot Linux from that. Should theoretically be possible, no?
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Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
Ahahaha no way it’s a set up for our benefit it’s gotta be
We Gen Z get called “the first digital kids” but I clearly remember the last days of physical and optical media. My sister and I would burn CDs with songs we would download from LimeWire.
Meh.
You didn’t experience the thrill of taping music from radio stations.
Nor the compulsion to swear out loud when the radio guy started talking 10 seconds before the song ending
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