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Cost. A couple dollars per disc, versus a couple pennies per disc for the one-time use.
Easily scratched.
They were slow. You could use a Syquest or Iomega 1GB drive, boot off it, etc. Basically as fast as a hard drive was.
They were compatible until they weren't. Plenty of issues trying to read those things on other computers.
Why did the author have to do all this hacking around with screenshots? Back in the day, you could query any window for its title/text/buttons and send events to the buttons directly. Is this not the case in Windows any more?
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Music-wise, lossy compression takes place via a proprietary codec (ATRAC). It isn't viable for data storage (neither was CDR(W)). Trust me, I had data loss due to all of these. Just use LTO with some parity data.
Not sure I understand, are you saying that you were using MiniDiscs or other MO media and were experiencing bit rot? Making ATRAC the exclusive and mandatory codec for MiniDisc Audio was another typical unfortunate Sony move but in my view doesn't discredit the strengths of the physical storage medium.
I didn’t know there was a rewritable dvd format. My dad had a bunch of dvds, I used to love sneaking one off to play on my computer when I was a kid, since he stopped noticing when he got into bluray
I don't ever think I had one fail to write
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I thought two-three times. Maybe a dozen. I always treated all kinds of writeable CD/DVDs as if they were one-write and done. To be honest, it hurts every time I write to an SSD drive — which is all of the time these days.
I just checked using $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1 Percentage Used: 2% Data Units Read: 7,173,143 [3.67 TB] Data Units Written: 22,666,414 [11.6 TB] That's after about 2 years of use. I think SSDs can take quite the beating nowadays.
Not bad ;)
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One hint for the wary: Don't delay feature updates for the maximum allowed in the group policy editor. I couldn't figure out why I was getting forced reboots for updates despite other policies requiring it to ask permission. Turns out that if the update hits the group policy maximum, it forces an update immediately, other policies be damned. So set it to the max - 14 days if you want some time to apply updates at you…
You could also use an OS that doesn't tend to have dodgy updates that brick your system, such as most Linux distro. Nor force you to update if you don't want to. Funny how a large company like Microsoft can't figure out QA, but volunteer Linux distros with much less resources can. (A lot of Windows specific software works in wine these days, Valve's investment into improving it for games have helped for applications…
I haven't done it recently but back when I was learning Linux, I definitely bricked my fair share of installations updating and installing things.
It was probably fixable to a more experienced person but it wasn't to me.
Linux is a lot of things but brick-proof for novice users isn't one of them.
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I thought two-three times. Maybe a dozen. I always treated all kinds of writeable CD/DVDs as if they were one-write and done. To be honest, it hurts every time I write to an SSD drive — which is all of the time these days.
I just checked using $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1 Percentage Used: 2% Data Units Read: 7,173,143 [3.67 TB] Data Units Written: 22,666,414 [11.6 TB] That's after about 2 years of use. I think SSDs can take quite the beating nowadays.
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You could also use an OS that doesn't tend to have dodgy updates that brick your system, such as most Linux distro. Nor force you to update if you don't want to. Funny how a large company like Microsoft can't figure out QA, but volunteer Linux distros with much less resources can. (A lot of Windows specific software works in wine these days, Valve's investment into improving it for games have helped for applications…
> if you are stuck with such software kvm-qemu, windows image, block network access to the windows update servers, problem solved?
Maybe if you had a second GPU and forwarded it to the VM? Not willing to spend that extra money, and it would only work on my desktop, not my laptop.