I somehow have a bunch of blank cd and dvds that i got from thrift stores and parents. There good for some linux os’s but besides that im not sure what else to put on them or do with them. I would like to create a sort of binder for rainy days with various media but im stumped.
Im asking what type of media i should put on theses dvds/cds. I would do music but im not the biggest music fan sadly.
If you want to make a binder then do that.
You should wrap them in foil, vacuum seal them and store them in the freezer. Those things are harder and harder to find now, especially the rarer music cdrs and plenty of stuff needs them.
Burn AOL free trial discs and leave them here and there
I used to pirate movies my older neighbour wanted to see and burn them on blank DVDs because she felt way more comfortable having discs than streaming. That could be an option if you have a tech-averse person in your life you care about.
She had a bunch of empty cases too, and would make customer covers for each movie with a sharpie and a piece of paper.
Large scale exterior wall art.
Put at least one of them in a microwave.
Pretty neat light show!
Technically, kind of, you are… burning the disk, in a sense, lol.
Burn porn or GoG games onto them and leave them in random bushes in various public parks and gardens
I could see Beavis and Butthead doing this neeheh heh
Hahahahaa
You… I have no words
…porn…
leave them in random bushes in various public parks and gardens
Please don’t do this; kids are stupid and don’t fear malware and will be among the first people to find this
I was a dumb young bitch who had a friend show me forest porn magazines and I turned out okay
I like your style, but I guess both would get you into legal trouble.
Only if you get caught
I like to burn movies and shows to play on my CRT. It feels a bit more authentic than streaming.
From personal experience, depending on how old they are, use them as coasters.
With very few exceptions, consumer grade optical media is really only good for sharing files.
Back in the 2000’s I had been using them to store backups of files. Found out the hard way that that was not a suitable use for them when I had a hard drive fail. Disk rot is a bitch if you’re not expecting it.
That said, if you and your family still have CD players, you might think about making them mix CDs. It’s also possible to burn your archived movies or tv shows onto them in DVD or Video-CD formats. I expect most DVD players can still read the Video CD format.
I’ve turned some into fidget spinners with hot glue and marbles.
If you’ve got a lot of content on a Steam account, you can make physical install discs
I’ve kind of wanted to do this: https://imgur.com/haxorus-created-from-broken-cds-Uot1FSF
Sega Dreamcast games
In case anyone is curious, an M-Disk burner can make optical backups intended to last long-term. Can be costly though.
There is no special burner that turns regular DVDs and CDs into M-discs. M-discs were a special product that were special because of the disc itself. This doesn’t answer OP.
Lessons from this were applied when designing BluRay discs which are much more resilient than DVDs.
M-discs are just premium BluRays now. Probably not worth the difference in cost given you can buy two BDs from two different batches for the same price as one M-disc. Just avoid LTH BDs which use quicker degrading components.
M-discs are a meme that were made for and only had relevance in the DVD era.
I use them as coasters for drinks.
But Blanks are still useful, I will literally never run out of unusable driver CDs, scratched CD-Rs, AOL cover discs, failed DVD burns, etc …
also floppy discs don’t shed foil flakes when they get wet, just superior coasters.
I would do TV shows and movies that I like. Yeah streaming but having a local copy is great and often faster especially where I live.
This is the proper answer
