I just bought an external CD/DVD read/write. When I built my most recent PC it didn’t have external bays, and I didn’t even worry about it. Changing my tune.
I have a lot of older games on CD, music files, and movies.
The games I actually own, that can’t be randomly shut off by lack of support. Music files not tied to a streaming service. Movies I can rip and put on my own home media server.
That old tech is still useful. It’s from an age before you “rented” your music, movies (blockbuster notwithstanding), and games.
I don’t like this binary choice between “not owning things” vs. “owning them on physical media”. You can own things in digital format, y’know? All media I have on my drives is also not tied to some service since it’s all DRM-less. I did buy some things on Steam, but for each such game I have a DRM-less version that I do truly own. And a stash of external drives takes up way less space than CDs and is way more convenient to use.
Especially since some physical media also has bullshit like DRM.
I just bought an external CD/DVD read/write. When I built my most recent PC it didn’t have external bays, and I didn’t even worry about it. Changing my tune.
I have a lot of older games on CD, music files, and movies.
The games I actually own, that can’t be randomly shut off by lack of support. Music files not tied to a streaming service. Movies I can rip and put on my own home media server.
That old tech is still useful. It’s from an age before you “rented” your music, movies (blockbuster notwithstanding), and games.
I don’t like this binary choice between “not owning things” vs. “owning them on physical media”. You can own things in digital format, y’know? All media I have on my drives is also not tied to some service since it’s all DRM-less. I did buy some things on Steam, but for each such game I have a DRM-less version that I do truly own. And a stash of external drives takes up way less space than CDs and is way more convenient to use.
Especially since some physical media also has bullshit like DRM.