I was browsing a technical store’s website and came across some DVDs. On sale. You’d need an optical drive to use them, unless you use them to decorate your walls

If you do use them, what do you use them for and why do you not just use hard drives, SSDs or USB thumb drives instead?

This is not a hate post. My whole existence is living in the 90’s, so… :P

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    “120mm optical media” is better, because that’s the official measurement, but it has its own problems. There’s the “mini” form factor at 80mm and the credit card form factor as well, and those still qualify as CDs, DVDs, etc., even though they’re not 120mm.

    “Optical media whose most common form factor is a 120mm disc” fits, as does “CD-like media”, but the former is wordy and the latter comes with the potential confusion that the others are CDs, when they’re not. Which I admit to deliberately avoiding for precisely that reason.