Yea, so this doesn’t exist, but should it?

Think about:

  • TheMovieDB style identifiers with box art
  • Auto-generated and/or community created and upvoted DVD labels, case inserts, or USB/SSD stickers you can print yourself (no reason physical media has to be “round”)
  • Automated scripts for generating local media savers/installers from GOG and Steam

This doesn’t seem like a very difficult thing to create for the niche community of people that want physical copies.

  • ㄖㄨㄖㄙ祂English
    21·
    10 hours ago

    SSTech requires power to maintain cells.
    What we need is liberated schematics Blu-ray burner+ readers, so you can burn even a small cast, and reread until your descendants50 make another copy.

    • Hetare King@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Doesn’t recordable optical media also have a pretty limited lifespan? Unlike commercially produced discs, where the pits are pressed into the plastic, CD/DVD/BD-Rs just have a dye that is made to change colour with a laser, and that dye degrades over time.

      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Even pressed discs can rot. Like many WB Blu-Rays were made with a faulty process and many will rot in the next few decades.

        • Hetare King@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          All things decay, not even the doping of ROM chips will last forever, but I think the average lifespan of recorded optical media is like, 10 years? That feels rather short.