• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    1 month ago

    get a Mini or Studio with adequate RAM (you can add storage later)

    No you can’t.

    I note that you only denigrate, and are not supporting a viable alternative.

    I mean there are dozens. How about Framework? 🤔

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      Thunderbolt4 is perfectly usable in high bandwidth situations. WTF are you on about. Do you even compute?

      Framework = Windows (consumer hostile in extremis) or Linux, fine for me and thee but user hostile for most.

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        Thunderbolt4 is perfectly usable in high bandwidth situations.

        You cannot call slapping on an external storage device “upgrading storage”, WTF are you on about? Are you just completely unaware of what a ridiculous solution that is to a problem that the OEM intentionally created?

        Framework = Windows

        That is not in any way correct.

        or Linux, fine for me and thee but user hostile for most.

        Linux is the opposite of user-hostile.

        I run a De-Googled ChromeOS, which is user-friendly, and open-source and user-respecting.

        You realize that Apple is the one responsible for you not being able to run MacOS on your preferred hardware? And that continuing to give them money guarantees that that hostility remains?

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          You cannot call slapping on an external storage device “upgrading storage”, WTF are you on about? Are you just completely unaware of what a *ridiculous* solution that is to a problem that the OEM _intentionally_ created?

          Oh I am very aware of how annoying and hostile it is to users: I repair computers, including macs.

          I didn’t write upgrade, don’t twist arguments or it’s bad faith. Adding TB4 drives to a workstation is just normal in the industry, don’t take it out on me. In that situation it’s no big deal, and yes all the gear is expensive to an amateur.

          We are getting off the original point that someone trying to break into an industry has to hew to the existing standards, and those standards often use FCP ProRes files so you better give in. While your tone was contemptuous and dismissive, you seemed a little curious about why that might be. I have tried to address that.

          Suggesting that a young professional trying to break into a decent paying job in the media production industry would use a chromebook or any version of linux for production is a non-starter.

          If a Framework workstation (I had no idea they made one, thought it was all laptops) runs something other than Linux or Windows, I am curious what it could be.

          Still, if you had to provide support for a wide variety of everyday users, I suspect your opinion on ‘user-friendliness’ would shift. Even Mint is problematic for most users as soon as they are required to step out of basic admin production. Windows is worse, unless you fully bend over for MS.

          Now I have to get back to ungluing a shitty battery out of a shitty macbook., hidden by sleazy little pentalobe screws.

          [Side note that “botched” means incompetent or clumsily made, i.e. intentionally broken.]

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            Can you add more about the requiring FCP for the industry? I tried to find market share information and I’m not sure how accurate it is but it seemed to say:

            1. A vast majority of FCP using companies are American

            2. FCP has about a 20% marketshare when it comes to companies using it.

            Should there be some qualifiers to the statement that a macbook is need to work in the industry?