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Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by recursive »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #69
paxys wrote: post #38

Fun joke at Sony's expense but it's going to spectacularly backfire when Microsoft inevitably announces that the next Xbox won't support physical discs.

Same stunt Samsung pulls when Apple does something like remove the headphone jack.

Headphone jack mentioned. I'm not going to stop buying phones based on them until there are no such options remaining, God forbid.

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by TacticalCoder »

So a funny thing happened to me a while ago... I built my current PC, about 3 years ago (an AMD 7700X but whatever). At some point I wanted to check some old data DVDs I burned, maybe one year after I built the PC or something: basically to make sure everything on the data DVDs was safely backed up in other places...

So I dug out an old internal DVD reader/burner (still have a few of those) only to notice that: my PC tower didn't physically allow to insert an internal CD/DVD reader. I hadn't realized until then. At first I tried to push on the front panel, thinking maybe it was going to open entirely. So I went on IRC, in a good old famous channel, to vent a bit. And they told me it was a thing: new PC towers with a slot of a CD/DVD reader are really uncommon now.

I literally didn't notice until I actually tried, after a year or so, to put a reader in the PC.

Now of course I had plenty other options: using another tower, my server (a Xeon workstation) has got a CD/DVD reader, I could ghetto-mount the internal reader temporarily while letting the tower opened, etc.

But that's not the point: internal CD/DVD readers/burners kinda went away, silently, with some of us not even noticing that PC towers suddenly didn't even offer the physical possibility to install them.

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by codezero »

paxys wrote: post #38

Fun joke at Sony's expense but it's going to spectacularly backfire when Microsoft inevitably announces that the next Xbox won't support physical discs.

The next Xbox already dropped physical media. The rog x ally Xbox portable is the last xbox branded gaming device.

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by ninjin »

vlovich123 wrote: post #65
ninjin wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Felt the same way initially, but you are very much right that this feels like a throwback to a more playful time about twenty years ago. Put in a request for the OpenBSD src repository, which is too big to fit on a CD these days and I am looking forward to see if/how they square that circle. OpenBSD used to ship their code on CDs up until about ten years ago, so it is a bit of a fun throwback in that way as well.

> Put in a request for the OpenBSD src repository, which is too big to fit on a CD these days and I am looking forward to see if/how they square that circle. From literally the first few sentences: > If we can make you a CD, it may take a few weeks to reach you. They just won’t send it to you. Also keep in mind that they say it has to be your repo - not sure how they’re verifying that but you probably won’t get it fo…

Riddle me this, what was the cost to me in terms of trying? If I feel like treating this like the fun we used to have online, what is the point in sucking all the fun out of it by "going lawyer" on the conditions? If I get a CD (or even DVD), it will be a fun story to tell (like when I asked Schneier to write a true Schneier Fact as opposed to his signature when I ordered a signed copy of one of his books). If I get nothing, well, I guess my life is simply over at that point.
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