Ian SmithMar 3
Show threadHoward Chu @ SymasMar 3

@IanDSmith
I'm not seeing how they made CDs and DVDs harder to use. You shove them into a drive, same as always.

Nobody forced you to subscribe to a streaming service. All of my music is still on local storage. A copy of everything sits on a USB stick plugged into my car radio, a copy sits on microSD in my phone.

Nobody made you give up phones with removable storage - you stopped buying them.

Don't blame industry for selling you what you asked for.

Show threadChu 朱

@hyc @IanDSmith

I haven't been able to get a computer with a dvd drive in ages.

I did get a dvd player a few years ago. Movie nights are DVDs we get from the library. No streaming here.

Mar 4 at 4:06amWeb
Show threadHoward Chu @ SymasMar 4
@chu @IanDSmith I've had the same USB DVD drive for probably a dozen years now. Used it with my last 4 laptops. These days it mostly sits on a shelf gathering dust, but when I get new CDs I fire it up again. Since my friends around here are almost exclusively musicians, I tend to go to a lot of CD launches throughout the year, so it still gets used periodically.
Show threadsu_liamMar 4
@hyc @chu @IanDSmith It’s time to start burning copies of CDs and DVDs from the library.