Burning CD's.
Millennial witchcraft.
😂
@RadicalSocialWorker Only amateurs burned CD's with fire 🔥 we used lasers 💪
@acirep @RadicalSocialWorker or microwave ovens!
@ColmDonoghue @acirep @RadicalSocialWorker 🎶 Gotta move these refrigerators / Gotta move these colour TV's 🎶 *guitar riff*
@acirep @RadicalSocialWorker It took me a while to understand why my backups weren’t working.

@acirep

Disc drives with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!

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@argv_minus_one @RadicalSocialWorker just like that! And we spin them and spin them more - so that laser can do the proper burning!
@acirep @RadicalSocialWorker Lasers really are just fire contained by physics magic...
@acirep @RadicalSocialWorker Pff, still beginner. *Our* CD burner could even burn on the outside!
@bekopharm @RadicalSocialWorker ouch! Looks like a nasty burn! Hope the rest of the pc survived 🙏

@acirep @RadicalSocialWorker indeed it did. Was quite a shock though.

Not exactly a fan of glass side panels but that day it really saved our asses. Wife was playing WoW with friends and I only heard her saying "Wait, I smell something burning". At that point I was already running to cut the power xD

@RadicalSocialWorker If that didn’t work, we’d get them confused by mixing a tape for them.
@mschlein
😂 Yes! The original - mixed tape. We had to create playlists in an analog way ourselves, kids! With buttons and patience!
@RadicalSocialWorker @mschlein OHHHHHHHH SO THATSSSS WHAT THAT MEANS!!!

@RadicalSocialWorker @mschlein

Buttons and patience? No, you youngster, we spliced tape with a razorblade and sticky tape!
And collected the silent seconds. "Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murke%27s_Collected_Silences

Murke's Collected Silences - Wikipedia

@RadicalSocialWorker @mschlein Using this piece of software which was called Nero Burning Rom 😎
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@isisevrinen @RadicalSocialWorker @mschlein Named after the emperor who first burned Rom

@mschlein @RadicalSocialWorker Hey, it was early 70', when I falled in love with a girl frm my elemntary school. I mixed a tape for her, with radio-recorded songs and romantic poems, read by me.

Then I called her home and played it all to her over the landline...

Too shy for my own good, was I.

Happy end: we never got together and she became a rabid nationalist...

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hoping the track is played fully and the radio jockey just shuts up for once.
@mschlein

The pencil was our "wand of tightening"

@mschlein @RadicalSocialWorker

@mschlein @RadicalSocialWorker The art of stopping the recording just before the song finished and the radio host started talking.
@alex @mschlein @RadicalSocialWorker
I used to listen with good headphones, and my finger on the Pause button.
I was usually able to pick out the extra "fader up" hiss (on the presenter's mic channel) or the tape hiss from the cart, just before the jingle started, over the (slightly different) hiss of an FM stereo signal.
All analogue.

@RadicalSocialWorker

I can still smell the notes burning upon the crackling flames, lighting up the night sky with glorious light and plastic fumes.

@RadicalSocialWorker That's pretty much what Millennials did to Gen X with pop culture references. Welcome to the "older than the zeitgeist" era if your lives. Good news: in 5 to 10 years, you won't give a fuck what someone who hasn't made a mortgage payment thinks. 😉
@RadicalSocialWorker There was also the microwave ...
@RadicalSocialWorker @mothninja Plot twist: before we would burn a cd, we'd often rip some.
@RadicalSocialWorker Back in my day, we dubbed mixed tapes.
@RadicalSocialWorker Do not cite the Deep Magic to me Witch. I was there when it was written.
@RadicalSocialWorker 😂😂😂 still got loads o CDs

@RadicalSocialWorker Not sure about witchcraft, but it was definitely a pagan ritual. 😉

Some called it “Burning ROM”.

Some just spoke in curses, mostly after the “Session fixation error, Could not perform end of Disc-at-once”

@avuko @RadicalSocialWorker

Am I late to the party?

@panda I bet this took a lot of fiddling

Never mind. I'll see myself out. @avuko @RadicalSocialWorker

@RadicalSocialWorker One of the best burners was called Nero.
@RadicalSocialWorker Before the newbies got their hands on those fancy CDs, we dignifiedly aged folk used to burn these things.

@apzpins @RadicalSocialWorker EPROM?! Luxury! We burned PROMs and prayed we hadn’t made a mistake punching one of the hex codes into the programmer, because if we did we had to throw the IC out

@RadicalSocialWorker Two years ago me discovered bitrot was a thing on recordable cd/dvds and had to collect, extract, and reburn onto MDISCs for archival purposes before they all perished. Dang tape media was still working fine however.
@RadicalSocialWorker
Only those who could interpret the ancient symbols had access to the inner circle.🧙
@elala @RadicalSocialWorker Oh, the Runes of Possession! I remember them!
@Ketakater
Only at dawn, when the fog lifted, did they reveal their secret.😶‍🌫️ 🤭
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@elala That brings back memories! I used to have our corporate Win XP key memorized after having to type it hundreds of times over.
@analogfusion
Then I would like to solemnly present you with your witch's diploma.📧 😁

@elala @RadicalSocialWorker "So it is writ; so shall it be done"

And by done i mean installed.

@elala @RadicalSocialWorker Thank you for the reminder to clean out some of the data hoarding
@RadicalSocialWorker Don’t mention anything about mixing tapes either 👀
@RadicalSocialWorker I think I need a shirt that says "Millennial Witchcraft" 🧡
@relasolmi @RadicalSocialWorker "GenX Technomancy" here or some such, although I'm nominally Boomer.
@pagangod @RadicalSocialWorker That works too, as long as you don't reveal the Old Magic of CDs 🤣🤣🤣

@RadicalSocialWorker that's heylarius . I saw a post after one of those celebrity charity concerts;

I just saw this musician Paul McCartney he is really talented! He should really start a band!

I laughed, then cried, then laughed again. I envied her youth, but not her stupidity. 😂

@RadicalSocialWorker ROM was merely burned by Nero's command! She should know history better!
"I would burn ROM for you"