Defining Your Age by Obsolete Physical Media

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A 'how old are you?' meme format. The top section on a black background contains the text 'How old are you? Me:'. The bottom section shows two iconic pieces of late 1990s/early 2000s technology against a white background. On the left is a black, zippered CD/DVD binder, opened to reveal discs stored in plastic sleeves. On the right is a tall stack of blank, iridescent CD-Rs or DVD-Rs on a black plastic spindle. The humor comes from answering the question of age not with a number, but with images of technology that are instantly recognizable to a specific generation (primarily Millennials and late Gen X). For experienced developers, this evokes strong memories of burning software, operating system ISOs, music mixes, and data backups onto physical discs, a stark contrast to today's world of cloud storage and high-speed internet

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick I'm 'buffer underrun error on the 49th minute of a 50-minute CD burn' years old. That's a special kind of trauma that cloud storage will never understand

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I'm 'buffer underrun error on the 49th minute of a 50-minute CD burn' years old. That's a special kind of trauma that cloud storage will never understand
Anonymous

Old enough that our first “artifact repository” was a spindle of CD-Rs - merge conflict resolution involved a Sharpie and whoever yelled “overwrite” the loudest
Anonymous

Remember when deploying to production meant burning a master disc at 1x speed to avoid buffer underruns, then praying the client's CD drive could read your particular brand of CD-R? Now we panic when our CI/CD pipeline takes more than 5 minutes
Anonymous

Remember when 'deploying to production' meant burning a CD-R at 4x speed because anything faster would cause buffer underruns, then physically shipping it overnight? Now we push to prod 50 times a day and somehow feel *less* confident about it. At least back then, when something broke, you could literally see the coaster you created
Anonymous

Old enough that my first container was a CD spindle, long before Docker registries
Anonymous

Old enough that CI/CD meant Copy ISO/Carry Disc - the artifact repo was a 100‑pack spindle and the hallway was our deployment pipeline
Anonymous

My first package manager was a spindle of CD‑Rs; deployment pipeline: mkisofs | cdrecord | walk to the rack
@perfect_pixel 5y

до сих пор лежит похожая коробочка как слева, на нее записаны все сезоны комиссара рекса
@perfect_pixel 5y

видимо уже на пенсии посмотрю (если данные доживут)
1. @Odbjorn 5y
  
  если ещё будет дисковод
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  ما هذا ؟
  
  @pyproman 5y
  
  ؜We don't speak Arabic here
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  Nor russian.
  
  @feskow 5y
  
  you frickin killed him
  
  @ANeufeld 5y
  
  I beg to differ...
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  Dans ce cas là, on va tous parler nos propres langues et faire de Telegram la grande tour de Babel.
  
  @ANeufeld 5y
  
  Pues, hay una cosita la cual estas ignorando completamente. Hay un monton de rusos aqui, de hecho, probablemente la mayoria eatan rusos y el admin solo esta enforcando esta regla tonta para aumentar la popularidad del canal. Und deshalb ist es zwar in Ordnung rissisch zu schreiben, aber arabisch ist definitiv eine Minderheit und ist tatsächlich sehr... sagen wir... undemokratisch. Ну а если ты дальше хочешь мерится хуями, то я еще на китайский могу перейти, и мне не нужен словарь. Did you get everything, smartass?
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  لقد فهمت ما قد قلتم، و لن أنحط إلى هذا المستوى لكي أتمكّن من الإجابة. Parce que répondre à l'impolitesse par l'impolitesse ne fait qu'accentuer la bassesse. and about the stupid rule imposed by the admin, I may say Dura lex, sed lex. ¡adiós mi amor!
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  idk if you actually speak german or if you translated it, but that's 100% fine wine right there. A+ on grammar, A+ on vocabulary, and A+ on content :P C- on Rechtschreibung because rissisch→russisch aber ok Sehr gut gemacht! 👍🏻
  
  @ANeufeld 5y
  
  Hehe, vielen Dank. Ich habe es tatsächlich selbst getippt und habe mich in der Eifer des Gefechts vertippt. Ich komme zwar aus Russland aber lebe aktuell in Deutschland.
@GTRst 5y

you win
@JoseAngelSanchez 5y

I hope someone invents an online translator soon
@deerspangle 5y

Plus messenger's built in translator is pretty decent tbh. Wouldn't want to try and have a conversation through it though
@ANeufeld 5y

"seul les faibles aiment être malpolis tout en se cachant comme des vampires peureux." He said and deleted the message
1. @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  Deleted because I wanted to translate before to answer, I need to know what's about, I'm not weak !!
  
  @ANeufeld 5y
  
  Uh, apparently I hit a nerve.
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  You should be proud then.
  
  @ANeufeld 5y
  
  First part is in Spanish. Then German. Then Russian. Then English. If you translate by parts, it could work. There are a few typos tho. Google Translator might just aurocorrect them. The first part, you should be able to understand with your French anyway.
@ANeufeld 5y

Talk about weak.
@JoseAngelSanchez 5y

that’s neat
@pyproman 5y

This chat just turned to a mix of all languages
@pyproman 5y

Completely normal (text glitch)
1. @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  I did not start using my own language because there are a lot of people who may understand it. English is the universal language, but some persons are too clever to force other people to translate. I'm just a mirror, I show how other people may feel/think when "clever" people aren't able to understand it.
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  trying to sound smart is often a sign of not actually being smart so shut up
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  I do not try to be smart or asking for opinion from people such you ! I'm showing/explaining my rightness, even if (you) the haters gonna hate, I don't give a shit !!
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  why though? Why do you feel the need of trying to be right, huh? Nobody cares, and you're just going to seem like an ass. Because that's what you are right now.
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  Need to fight ? Play FPS !!
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  Aight, imma just block you, then my life will have less unnecessary noise.
  
  @ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y
  
  Weak people !

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