• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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    1119 days ago

    Meanwhile me with a CD book that has 17 bootable DVDs and CDs plus a separate DVD+RW for more random, less permanent crap and a portable USB DVD drive (the drive is sourced from e-waste and fails to write both DVD+/-RW and CD-RW at 4x, only 2.4x and 10x respectively work).

    I like spinny media.

    I mean, I also have a Ventoy disk, but I haven’t used it for a looooong time because it’s no fun, but discs are.
    I just need a bigger backpack. The WRT54GL is taking up quite some space too.

    Much cooler than ventoy, no?

      • @[email protected]
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        419 days ago

        I bet you never heard its cool sound.

        brrrrRRRRR PS PS bRRR PS PS, PS PS, zzzzZZZZZMMMMMMMMM

        best thing ever

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      119 days ago

      Not to mention iso booting from a disc…just works. Too many times I’ve tried booting various USB images only to have it fail for unknown reasons, the host machine has this weird quirk of not able to boot from a 3.0 port or…idk

      • Oh boy, you haven’t met some Dell Optiplexes.

        That shit, for whatever reason, can’t boot from internal DVD drive. I tried with 2 of them. Both had functional drives, I tried disabling secure boot, enabling legacy boot and some other settings which seemed related, but nothing worked. Then for shits and giggles I tried a USB DVD drive and that worked just fine.

    • @[email protected]
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      118 days ago

      I used to have hundreds of movies, games and a couple linux distros on DVDs and CDs.

      I threw everything out years ago. It was cumbersome and it sucked. It was a waste of time.