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  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
    116·
    9 months ago

    I’m wondering if we’re at the stage where the joke is missed because the average age of users never experienced the CD.

    • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
      30·
      9 months ago

      I’m of the age where I can remember having a load of rewritable cds and DVDs plus those things that supposedly cleared up scratches now those were a scam too.

      • otacon239@feddit.de
        29·
        9 months ago

        Usually the home versions were scams, but there were better quality ones out there that would remove just a little bit of the top layer, making a smooth finish again. Although deep scratches obviously couldn’t be repaired in this case.

          • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
            6·
            9 months ago

            Sometimes it did! I tried it on a disc that was so messed up, I figured out couldn’t make it work any less, and wouldn’t you know, it worked for the first time in a long time. Other times, not so lucky.

            • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
              5·
              9 months ago

              Most toothpaste is slightly abrasive so depending on the scratches it can definitely work as a polish. I’d always steal my dad’s special glass polish and it was basically like toothpaste

              • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
                2·
                9 months ago

                I learned how to polish glass fiber… It’s not any different from polishing anything else, except the “sandpaper” is smoother than normal paper

                Toothpaste is an abrasive… Partner it up with finer and finer abrasives and you could get a cd clearer than new

      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        I had one that was a hand crank thing. It actually worked pretty well. Whenever I thought that was it for my Diablo II CD, I would run it though there and Presto: good as new.

        My Xbox 1 also had this weird thing where it sounded like it was fucking eating the CD too. If it got too grumpy we would use the crank and boom: back to teabagging people in Halo.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
      13·
      9 months ago

      Doesn’t the fediverse userbase trend towards being made up of millennials? I’m on the older end of gen Z myself and grew up with CDs and DVDs, so I imagine most people here are familiar with the technology.

      • eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I’m on the younger end of gen z and still know what the are, never actually use them but we have lots. I feel most of us know what old stuff like CDs are because of the Internet tho.

    • Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      9 months ago

      Gaming disks still exist, also music CD, even vinilos have a comeback.