• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    I totally get it. Kids missed out on everything good.

    Too bad DVDs and CDs will quit being made soon, and disc rot sets in on most discs in 20 years. Luckily mine have survived. But make backups. Although that’s why “they (the rich)” want to drive up the price of HDDs so we can’t afford it, so we are tied to their cloud systems forever.

    Good luck young people !

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      that’s why “they (the rich)” want to drive up the price of HDDs so we can’t afford it, so we are tied to their cloud systems forever

      That seems like a reach. Hanlon’s says they’re just buying HDDs for their Artificial Imbecile service.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Too bad DVDs and CDs will quit being made soon

      We’re still making vinyl records. What on earth makes you think we’re going to stop making DVDs?

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        5 hours ago

        Vinyl has hipster vibes and false audiophile claims. CDs and DVDs dont. They won’t be profitable in a few years and then bye bye factories. Just like vhs. I’d still be buying vhs takes if they made them but they dont. Same with CRTs.

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      7 hours ago

      Properly manufactured Audio CDs are actually quite resilient, obviously not so much to scratches, but out of all my 100+ CDs (I’d say half of which are older than 25 years) only one has disc rot and that one is a pressing made by PDO who’re known for their bad pressings that are prone to disc rot.

      I don’t really store my CDs in a special way either.

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        5 hours ago

        The life span of CD/DVD is not on the printed media but on the media we make/made our backups on. Of my many spindles from back in 2k (some disks are almost 25 yrs old), so far maybe 5 disks have gone partially or completely unreadable, lucky I didn’t lose much. Baring scratches or other physical damage, the printed disks will last decades where my disks have outlasted prediction

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      7 hours ago

      CDs were so much better for my kids than any other digital player. Especially when they couldn’t read yet. It’s much easier to choose a CD and put it into a player than opening an app to search for something.