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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 137 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

i burned a cd 2 weeks ago.

[–] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 75 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 72 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

unneccessarily rude!

They might be just genX.

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 2 weeks ago

millennial. turned 40 this year.

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (24 children)

I don’t think burning CDs was much of a boomer activity.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The phrase just means, "alright old person" now.

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

... and you didn't know it was the last time

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago

Every time is the last one, at least for a while

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

naw, we have a cd juke box at my work. pretty sure ill be burning them for the foreseeable future.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Still in denial, I see /hj

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

/hj? Did you just give him a handjob?

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[–] Mist101@lemmy.world 66 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I still burn CDs. This whole streaming thing won't last. Also, my back hurts...

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 38 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

The real meta is to have a hard drive full of flac files and use tailscale to stream them wherever you are from your computer at home

[–] Mist101@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's the dream. Currently debating what to do with a spare laptop and "make it a server" sounds ideal.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 8 points 2 weeks ago

I suggest Navidrome

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[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Burning one today just because of this post.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

I burn Blu-rays once in a while. They work for backup.

[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

They don't last very long. About 5-10 years at most, and that's if you bought special archival burnable DVDs. If you depend on them for backups, you should check the integrity annually (always include a checksum like SHA256 with any backup archive).

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I still have a big stack of blank CDs and DVDs. I burned a DVD late last year. I don't think I've hit my last time yet. But maybe.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Last time I saw this template it was "Someday your parent will carry you in their arm for the last time and neither of you will know it was the last time."

😭

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I still burn them sometimes for the car.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The car you downloaded? Because YOU would totally download a car?

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I loved DVD-RAM. I could just mount them in Linux and copy backups on it. They are even reusable, like you could just delete a super old backup and put a new one on it. I think I stopped using them, because of capacity.

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[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
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[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I just burned one today, it was the easiest way to transfer a game to a Windows 95 notebook. 🫠

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[–] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I burned an audio CD just a few weeks ago. My car doesn't have Bluetooth audio, so I've kept going old school all along. I bought a few stacks of empty CD-R's and DVD-R's when the stores wanted to get rid of them.

I have zero streaming subscriptions and no intention of getting any. The number of films, games and music albums I've bought from flea markets and second hand stores during the past 10 years has to be in the hundreds. And not one has cost more than 3$.

Even my kids haven't complained about the lack of streaming, they seem perfectly happy using my physical media library.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I didn't know it was the last time, and I don't know when exactly it was, but I do know what it was that I burnt:

A Linux install CD

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Jokes on you, I still burn my acquired digital media to BluRay discs

Disk rot is like 25 years while an SSD still doesn't have that kind of shelf life

[–] deadbeef@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who are these mad men who are dumping stuff to SSDs and then sitting them on a shelf? Can't get my mind around it.

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[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I don't burn CDs, I buy music on pre-owned CDs (Best Of albums, etc.) and rip them to my computer. Cheaper than some of the online music stores where you download the music files.

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You should checkout the public library.

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[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Unless I die tomorrow, you're wrong.

[–] PeterisBacon@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

I do the opposite now. I buy discs cheap from bin stores, rip them onto my desktop and then upload to my home library for more affordable 'streaming'.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago

If we include DVDs I probably put a Linux distro iso on one in 2010 or 2011. CDs? Maybe a CD I made for a road trip on 2009 or 2010.

[–] Kookie215@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (11 children)

We should go back to doing it, physical media is where it's at.

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[–] poloqualle@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

I thought that I burned my last cd a long time ago until my uni required me to hand in my thesis on a cd.

Buying a 4-pack of CDs (with cases) was more expensive than buying a 128gb sd card.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago

Joke's on you. I have multiple spindles of blank optical media I use regularly. I am not putting a ODE on my Saturn unless I absolutely have to.

[–] LumpyPancakes@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

I microwaved a few from 2008 last month. They smell of cancer if you do that though.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

CDs are too small, so yeah. DVDs on the other hand? Optical disks are the only practical media that is EMP-proof. After the apocalypse, I'll still have all my coding projects, thank you very much.

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I still use them (in M-DISC blu-ray form) for encrypted backups.

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'm going to go burn one for the last time just to subvert this meme.

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