Huge Half-Life discovery found from a decades-old CD sitting in a storage unit - eviltoast
  • Flamekebab@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    Burning is writing a disc. Ripping is extracting data from a disc. Whoever wrote the article used lingo they don’t understand.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      That is what I thought, I have burned many discs in my day, and I have never got an ISO from bruning a disc.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Yeah I would read “managed to burn the disc” to mean “managed to create a new CD-R copy of the original.” “Managed to rip the disc” would mean successfully created an .iso file.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Exactly. I even still have a bunch of blank DVDs and maybe a few blank CDs sitting in storage somewhere. I used to use them to burn Linux ISOs every couple years, but ISOs are now bigger than a DVD, so I now have to hunt down the USB drive each time (I’m always losing those).