Subj : Retro
To : MRO
From : Chai
Date : Wed Nov 14 2018 03:40 pm
-=> MRO wrote to Chai <=-
MR> i'm just more practical in my old age. i dont want shit around if i'm
MR> not using it. and cds and dvds sucked. pain in the ass to load them up
MR> or burn to them when you can use a flash drive or a harddrive.
And flash drives is what I use mostly when working on modern systems.
But I very much have a use case for all of this stuff. Not everyone does.
It makes sense to me that many people no longer use it.
My nephew used to visit my place so he could stream Twitch on my network.
He lives in a rural area, and only has 1Mbps DSL. He had some open source
program, I don't know what, that he downloaded on my PC, so he wouldn't
have to download it on his slow connection. He tried to dump it on his
phone, but for some reason his phone would not co-operate. Rather than
debugging the problem, or loaning him a $10 USB drive that I may or
may not see again, I just dumped it on a a 50 cent DL optical disc and
sent him on his way. Fortunately, he still uses optical drives in his
system as well.
> As for LightScribe, I haven't used that in ages. It was a great technology,
MR> always used a sharpie.
It's certainly faster to use a Sharpie. LightScribe is just nicer looking
for those instances where you're burning a disc for someone else (and
only when appearances matter).
