I used to have one of those little joke .exe files called Cupholder. If you clicked on it, it opened the CD drive.

Occasionally I will use a blank CD or DVD to burn something like a game I obtained through less than ideal means. Otherwise, I tend to use them less than I should. But that would require me to find more uses for them.

I got a whole stack of blank DVDs a couple years ago because the student government at the college I attend was just getting rid of them. Probably was gonna throw them away if nobody picked them up, so I did. Also got some clear, see through sleeves as well.

Edit:

This post also made me remember that an art student used a bunch of discs and a teddy bear in a 3D art piece that gets a negative reaction from me. Every time I pass by it in the library, I hate it, but admit it’s great art considering it gets such a strong emotion out of me.

Those look good, they are gamingfavoriten!

I have a small library of music CDs, because I liked music before there was an internet. I recently ripped them to .FLACC.

I have a stack of blank CD-Rs. I mostly bought them for running homebrew and import games on my Dreamcast. Recently I did find some old PC games that wouldn’t work under WINE, so I ended up using some of the CD-Rs to reinstall Windows XP on my Thinkpad T60. That took 8 discs.

Yes, I have a music CD collection and a CD player in my car I use semi-frequently. I don’t use discs for movies though.

My stereo still uses CD’s, so that’s what I use. I have a DVD burner in my PC, and a spindle of blank CD-R’s and anothet of blank DVD-R’s. I use the former to burn music CD’s for my stereo, and the latter for extra backup whenever I’m about to upgrade my hardware (once every 10 eyars or so). This is on addition to a NAS and an external drive. I just figured that the disks would have the best chance to be read once I get a new desktop.

(I also saw the mention of floppies in the discussion. I have an old Win98 machine - for gaming only these days - with an internal floppy and zip drives. Those media easily outlast CD’s: I can still read almost all oc them, even though some are over 30 years old.)

no because my external drive broke T_T i was flabberghasted when i got a new laptop and it didn’t have a disc drive. how am i supposed to rip CDs!?!? i still have a huge stack of 'em i still need to rip

Fuck bud I still use floppy disks. It’s damn hard to find a pc with a dedicated floppy drive. Those usb floppy drives fail writing to floppy more often than not.

Rarely; I think the last time was a live CD to try Linux on an older computer

physical media has a place with collectors and appreciators and i hope that doesn’t ever stop being true

its resistant to censorship and it gives creators a thing to sell

I use them for archival backups of personal media.

The pedant in me cannot let slide that your title talks of compact discs but the image is of write-once blank DVDs.

But no, I don’t use any form of 4.7" optical media very often. The last time I used the optical drive in this computer was to watch a DVD that I didn’t want to go downstairs and watch on the TV. That must be a good few months ago now.

As to why I even have such a drive - long, boring story. I had assumed that if I ever had need of one, I’d just take the one out of my old PC. When that time came, the newer PC refused to boot with that drive installed. (Imagine, if you will, being in that situation, and the ensuing horror and frustration.)

It then made sense to buy a different one to troubleshoot and cover that potential need. And I haven’t bothered to uninstall it after “testing”.

Edit: Sometimes I a word.

Offsite Backups of Family Photos

As a medium for media, yes