Derision wrote to Chai <=-
Me too. I actually find myself using it quite a bit. Part of my job is maintaining my company's elderly computers (the general ledger is still run on the CP/M version of dBase...!) so being able to access floppies
is still super important (though my MacBook Pro no longer supports USB floppies)
Blu-Rays and DVDs are also great for backing up. And while I have an
AUX port in my car, sometimes I just prefer to have a few CDs I can
throw on and not have to worry about plugging my phone into something.
MRO wrote to Chai <=-
i'm just more practical in my old age. i dont want shit around if i'm
not using it. and cds and dvds sucked. pain in the ass to load them up
or burn to them when you can use a flash drive or a harddrive.
As for LightScribe, I haven't used that in ages. It was a great technology,
always used a sharpie.
My vehicle has CD, MP3 CD, and AUX. It does not have a USB port, even though USB ports were in most aftermarket systems at the time.
I keep telling myself I need to update my audio system in my car.
OEM car audio/multimedia systems are usually all pretty bad. I've seen
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Chai <=-
OEM car audio/multimedia systems are usually all pretty bad. I've seen some interesting Android head units that allow you to use readily
updated Android apps and hook into steering wheel controls and back up cameras.
I've wondered why that is. I have a car stereo that I bought for its built-in GPS and ability to play music from a USB flash drive, and it has some quirks that bug me a bit, which I think wouldn't have been difficult for them to improve.
didn't want to pay for it)
The map uses a DVD that's now showing its age, and updates are $160. I could get a cheap Chinese Android head unit for that price.
My 2014 Prius has a interface that looks like it came out of a kids Leapfrog toy, and updates have been sparse. They just announced that Pandora would no longer work, but they couldn't figure out some way to remove the button (or didn't want to pay for it)
The map uses a DVD that's now showing its age, and updates are $160. I could get a cheap Chinese Android head unit for that price.
you can probably just download the update
I just popped in a floppy disk into Windows 10 (latest update).
Formatting, copying, chkdsk, all still works with floppies.
I imagine Windows will one day omit the ability to work with floppies,
but it's kinda cool that it's still there. I'm honestly surprised that
they still support it, and I'm not surprised that Apple does not.
It's interesting to me that CP/M is still being used in production environments.
I just popped in a floppy disk into Windows 10 (latest update).
Formatting, copying, chkdsk, all still works with floppies.
I imagine Windows will one day omit the ability to work with floppies,
but it's kinda cool that it's still there. I'm honestly surprised
that they still support it, and I'm not surprised that Apple does not.
I found it a bit annoying when macOS stopped bothering with it. I mean, they've bloated the rest of the OS to Vista levels of bloat, while still deleting useful features.
Yeah, I thought it was somewhat odd (but not surprising) when Apple stopped including optical drives in their Macs. I also thought it was odd that Apple never included blu-ray drives in their Macs though - as far as I know, they only had DVD drives.
third-party apps that let you watch media on blu-ray discs, but all of those apps cost way more than something like VLC, which'll let you watch almost anything for free.
I've tried using VLC (on Windows) to watch blu-ray discs, but I seem to recall VLC was unable to play blu-ray.
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