Amusingly, I think I remember some of my last ones, though maybe not my absolute final one.

For the most part, I'd already moved away from CDs, but I got a job driving vans which didn't have Bluetooth or an aux port. I ended up burning a few mp3 CDs für that job some time in late 2014.

Fun fact: one of those CDs contained brony music which I accidentally left in my van one night. I came into work the next day to hear it blaring on the warehouse speakers until I heard someone saying "what is this?" before changing the CD.

The drivers were all talking about it during lunch and I sat there quietly, amused by them trying to figure it out 😂

This is Lemmy bruh. We still be burning discs on the reg.

Seriously though, I still like to listen to CDs in my car. Something about making that perfect 20 song banger mixtape just hits different. And then slotting old CDs and having no idea what songs are on there but usually being pleasantly surprised. Spotify/Bluetooth is too easy and casual, I tend to pay more attention and enjoy the music more when listening to CDs.

I shit my pants once when I was 32, I did not know that wouldn't be the last time.

I never knew that "road mix 17" was going to be the final release

I've written to a CD last year.

Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?

Huh, I just got blank CDs yesterday.

I might just go and burn one more when I get home, just for the heck of it ;)

Nah - CD’s are great.

Everyone should be burning Parenti lectures and leaving them in public spaces. Very fun past time.

Hah I knew it exactly. 2019 when my university required to hand in all (raw) data used for creating my thesis on a CD or DVD. I had to buy a new one of these things where you get like 50 disks stacked on a stick (to use 3 of them) and had to borrow my mom's old laptop, because it was the only one available with a dvd drive. I knew it then and I've been right since then: This was the last time.

Well yeah but I also ate for the last time until I'll eat again this evening, right?

You can simply turn the last time into the not-last time at any point in the future

I still have a BD-RE drive in my current setup. It almost never sees any use, but it's definitely nice to have the option should I ever require it.

I recently tried. Didn't work. Don't know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted.
CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.

Until you find a reason to do it again. I burned a cd like last year because my car has a cd player.

I haven't burned my last one yet

Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.

I don't even have a device with an optical reader

Will there be a time where we will write to a USB stick for the last time?

Actually about to reverse course on this one. As a data hoarder, bluray as cold storage seem like a sensible solution.

And one day, a few years later, I threw away my opened package of unwritten raw CDs and DVDs.

I've kept my Blu-ray burner in service from the past few rebuilds, probably had it about a decade or so

Though I'm not sure I've actually ever burned anything with it—used it to back up some old DVDs recently though

It's easy for me to remember. I made a cute soundtrack for an anniversary. I miss that relationship sometimes, but I try to convince myself leaving helped me grow.

CD, yes...

DVD? Man, I still keep recovery disks for repair jobs. Hiren's is still a thing.

lol I didn't

I did or i atleast believe that then was the last time, you never know.

Every person you meet will eventually be seen for the last time. It's odd how casual those departures can be.

ive never burned a CD (I do use them for music though)

Since I have to deal with an older system that has not yet been replaced (and isn't slated to be for a variety of reasons), combined with some security requirements that the clients IT team had put into place...

I still have blank CDs and have burned them relatively recently. Probably will be doing so again in about 2 months....

I didn't really ever burn any CDs myself (though I have a few burnt ones). But just end of last year I ripped a CD

It probably contained Linux

If I had to guess? Ubuntu Studio 14.04

Let me just burn this last CD and then recycle this computer

Me when I burned my last cd

I don't know when it was specifically, but I know it was to make a music CD for my old car that could play MP3s off of CDs. 15 years ago, maybe?

yeah, but i’m planning on that day being the future. gotta save all my music offline 💖

I'm pretty sure I'm also done with USB sticks.

I don't think that's true. I have a 20+ year old iBook G3 that I keep around to tinker with Mac OS 7-9. The usb slots either don't work, or at least don't support newer usb drives, so it's only a matter of time before I hop over to the Macintosh Garden and start burning discs again.

I thought about this a lot after the last time I saw this post. I am almost positive it was a The Prodigy mix that I made for myself. My little sister got a car with a CD drive in it as her first car and she asked for my old CDs and that's the latest one I can recall making.

Crazy to think that 10+ years after I made that CD now my little sister is listening to it haha. And I was already listening to many cd mixes my mom and father had given to me over the years. That CD case probably has illegally downloaded music burned to CDs from over 25 years ago in it. Not to mention several actual CDs that are probably almost 50 years old at this point. My father loved the classics and after he ripped his entire library to cram into his digital magic box he let a lot of the physical CDs go to his son's. at least 1 or two ended up on that cd case of mine.

Yep, it was the 10th time i was attempting to burn a clients files to DVD’s. I swore i was never going through that again. Then after i got a successful burn prompt, i went to hit ok and a fatal error had occured, and lo and behold the burn failed after verification. Joined the Navy within the week.