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You two have obviously been married a long time? 20+ years maybe?
4 of the happiest years of her life. 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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In short: The manufacture of coasters.
Some months ago I bought an Asus external BlueRay / DVD / CD burner certified to burn M-Discs of all varieties. So I bought a 25 stack of BlueRay M-disk DVDs.
With my hopes high, I tried a few times to use the Windows internal DVD burner to do 25GB M-discs. Every single one turned out to be a useless coaster! Windows would take 20+ minutes to burn the disc, only to report "there was a problem. The disc may be unusable!" or words to that effect.
So I tried to burn the BlueRay M-discs with a 12 year old version of Roxio, that came out in the days of XP! No sweat, Roxio burnt the discs without any errors.
Considering the millions of coasters MS Windows must have produced over the years, MS should consider entering the coaster business! 
And don't tell me I should rather backup to flash drives! I'm a DVD man! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I read that CDs degrade over a few decades, which surprised me, so DVDs might be the same. The best medium for truly long-term storage might be stone or papyrus!
Eventually, it will be almost impossible to buy DVDs or a DVD drive. But a decade later, a retro movement will bring them back into fashion. 
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I'm for stone, pyramids been around forever. Only problem is trades people, stone work is a lost art.
I wonder if you could teach monkeys to do it...just a thought.
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Whatever happened to pencil and paper?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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True, but pyramids don't say anything. Mayan hieroglyphics! The history of their decipherment is interesting and comparatively recent.
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No Egyptian hieroglyphics do tell stories and some very interesting. Mayan hieroglyphics are also very interesting.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I'm for stone,
You are going to need a huge amount of stones and a big hammer if you want to hole-punch all that information in stone 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Greg Utas wrote: Eventually, it will be almost impossible to buy DVDs or a DVD drive.
??? You can still get 5-1/4s! (Not new, mind you...)
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Wow - the prices are better than I was paying in 1984!
May have to get some in case they come back into fashion!
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Quote: might be stone
You're not far off. Manufacturers of M-Discs claim that their medium is much like engraving in stone. They guarantee a lifetime of 1,000 years! My main question: Will man (and woman) still be around in a 1,000 years? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Interesting. I heard it sung by Exordium & Terminus.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Don't be silly.
A Microsoft Coaster®™ would be water soluble ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You should really backup to flash drive 
(You can't tell me what to do!)
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Microsoft is actually doing you a favor. Few things are worth backing up. At first you'll be devastated that they are gone. Then after that fades in 6 months, you won't remember what you didn't successfully back up anyway 
For me, other than family photos, nothing is worth the trouble. And even at that, all the things that matter are in my head!
Hogan
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Cp-Coder wrote: And don't tell me I should rather backup to flash drives! I'm a DVD man!
I'd understand backing up some media that originated from DVD, but even double-layer Blu-ray discs (50GB) are way too small for my regular backup set. The full thing currently leaves about 1.5TB free on my 10TB drive. So flash drives are out as well.
And that's just the stuff I care about backing up.
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You need LTO mag tape, don't you. 
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I wish hard drive capacity was keeping up. I don't want a RAID to be involved in my backup scheme.
I've used LTO tapes before (salvaged the hardware from a business shutdown, used it for my own purposes for a while). Problem is, it's ridiculously expensive for an end user.
And I hate using the proprietary software. Need to quickly restore a random file in a random folder? Good luck with that. Backing up to hard drives with robocopy, I can do just that as if the backup set was just another drive - because that's exactly what it is.
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Wow. That was so amazing I didn't mind the sponsor section.
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Not sure if Chrome/other browsers do that, but Edge is annoying in this way:
If I go (for example) to https://www.codeproject.com, and copy that (literal) string from the address bar, and then paste it into something like OneNote (or any other app that lets you create links), what gets pasted is text showing "CodeProject - For those who code", which is a clickable link that brings you to the site. I don't want to get the URL obscured in this way.
I've taken the habit of pasting into Notepad first (which doesn't know what to do with links, so it only keeps what I actually copied to the clipboard), and then copy that plain-text URL back onto the clipboard, and paste back into OneNote.
It's not a feature of OneNote; if I copy a URL from IE instead (it is, after all, still present), then I get the actual URL instead of this crap. Like it's been doing for a million years.
I'm coming up short in terms of Google keywords to try to disable this, so the URL itself is copied rather than the title of the page at that location. Thoughts?
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Does it still happen if you shift+paste?
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Yes.
Although in the case of OneNote, the right-click menu presents 3 options to paste - only the last option (labeled Keep Text Only) seems to filter the rest of the crap out.
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Settings | Share, copy, and paste | Plain Text.
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