Free, except for the amortized R&D and construction costs.

Most of my work is with Macs, and even one server is running macOS, so for those who don’t know how it works ‘over there’, one runs Time Machine which is a versioning system keeping hourlies for a day, dailies for a week, then just weeklies after that. It accommodates using multiple disks, so I have a networked drive that services all the mac computers, and each computer also has a USB drive it connects to. Each drive usually services a couple of computers.

Backups happen automatically without interruption or drama.

I just rotate the USB drives out of the building into a storage unit once a month or so and bring the offsite drives back in to circulation. The timemachine system nags you for missing backup drives if it’s been too long, which is great.

It’s not perfect but very reliable and I wish everyone had access to a similar system, it’s very easy, apple got this one thing right.

No soil. Might as well grow food in a building.

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies)

1. (political science) Government under the control of a nation’s worst or least-qualified citizens. [from 1829.]

Remember to visit the range on windy days, folks.

As always:

Follow the Money

kakistocracy

Noun

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies)

1. (political science) Government under the control of a nation’s worst or least-qualified citizens. [from 1829.]

I think the statement you are responding to is not prescriptive, but that the situation needs to be described accurately.

Edit: your edit is an improvement, thanks.

It has the tone of some sovcit bullshit pseudo-legalese.

Wait didn’t MEC collapse into / get bought by a regular corporation?

“She’s got Marty Feldman eyesss”

Thelma and Louise is the Great American Movie.

I worked in the specialty AIDS ward in St. Stephen’s hospital in London (before any meds were available).

AIDS has a devil’s banquet of particular cruelties as the diseases it kills with are many, some are particularly horrific, and they overlap so that the comorbidity of all this horrible shit happening at once is itself an overriding cruelty.

Sometimes it goes on forever, and also I watched buff fit vibrant people burst out in painful cancerous lesions and waste away to a stick figure in a month.

AIDS is a concentration camp not a prison, unless you have the best meds and care.

Drupal scales well and is very extensible with features that allow complicated permissions systems, etc. I have built some complicated courseware with it, and big document archives, etc. It has a skilled developer community. I wouldn’t use it for small inexpensive sites, but it’s top tier and free/liberated.

Joomla’s code a decade ago was so inefficient and clunky to work with I could never recommend it, my main interaction with it was troubleshooting and helping folks escape it. Maybe it’s improved.

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.]

I thought we were talking about media production but your goalposts are over there in the playground.

Botched means I asked for more industry standard production files and you gave me something else, because you don’t understand ROI in industry. Equipment is cheap compared to time. Just use the tools the job requires.

I used to teach guerilla filmmaking back in the day of “desktop video is the next big thing” so I see where you’re coming from, even if you hide your ignorance about the work behind ideals. Knock yourself out learning to edit with a cheap gaming rig and the free version of Resolve, make cool stuff and upload, start a wedding video business.

But get work in a large production as a contractor? The tools are cheap compared to time and amortized quickly in taxes. Buy the tool the job requires. Skills should be platform agnostic.

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.

Maybe. You think I’m getting ProRes RAW files from your Win11/Premiere rig? Fired.

The Amygdaloids, you mean: the 30% or so that seems to be a human constant of fearful, somewhat self-centred, and comfortably authoritarian. Combined with the sociopaths, you get fascist behaviour.

Homo Narratus is particularly susceptible to stories that direct behaviour. Not just propaganda, but ideology. We need to justify our participation in our own oppression.

It’s both genetics and a ploy.

I hate apple with an intimacy and intensity you likely don’t, but the alternatives are either equally indefensible or difficult for average users and thus also anti-consumer.

Just never buy an iMac, get a Mini or Studio with adequate RAM (you can add storage later) and a nice 4k monitor and you then get what you are paying for with some reliability.

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