AmyKids this is a reminder to collect physical copies of your favorite media. Corporations will axe your favorite show/movie/book in front of its family and make it a felony to retrieve it. Have a library.
myownpetard blue checkmark@lolennui i like to own CDs because they'd have to come into my house to steal my music back. and i've gone back to paper books--they have the added benefit of not being tied to a specific technology that might go poof.
armin@myownpetard @lolennui Isn“t CD, just in fact, a technology that went poof long ago?
Spankminister@armin @myownpetard @lolennui Lots of devices and computers can support a book as a PDF. But a CD requires a hardware device with an optical drive, and even then some devices like PS4 won't play them.
@spankminister @armin @lolennui one can still buy CD players (even usb ones) and i can make all the digital copies i want. no tech lasts forever, but CDs are still a viable one. lots of things do not support pdfs. and if all you have is a playstation... that seems odd but you do you?
@spankminister @armin @lolennui the CD is my backup copy. backup. i listen to mp3s on my various devices.
@myownpetard PDFs? Playstation? I thought we were talking CDs, but ok. Anyways, I don't have a single CD in my home anymore (I have about 200 Minidisc's, about 1000 vinyl records and about 500 cassette tapes).
@armin i don't know how pdfs and PlayStation got mixed up in this. i am impressed about owning working cassette tapes. mine did NOT last. can you still buy them? i don't own any vinyl. i'm not THAT cool! 🙃
@myownpetard Mint cassette tapes are only manufactored as Type I; CrO2 and Metal you can only buy used these days. I have tapes that are more than 30 years old and about 50% of the CD-R's I used to backup data produced read errors ~5 years after creating them. It was the most unreliable medium I ever used. Vinyl records are highly inconvenient, too, btw, as they result in a space problem when you have many, but at least they work still 50 years later.
@armin yeah if they're stored right (which i assume you do) vinyl LASTS. and i gather ya kinda need them to DJ!
@myownpetard I also DJ digitally, but yes DJing on vinyl is such a tangible and tactile thing. I love how it feels, that it is zero-latency even when scratching, and I love 12" record covers fully printed on beautiful paper. It's far from perfect with all the crackles and scratches, but I still collect it, even with all the comeback, cult and exploding prices. :)
Richard