Ah yes, the russian approach! We can’t have the children from Ottawa suburbs dying in an invasion, can we?

Sorry, I’m confused: how so?

Interesting how petrostates wind up authoritarian, right? Even in Canada, the most right wing bootlickers are in Alberta.

I’m sure there are some interesting academic studies on that, historical connections and the political nature of extractive vs regenerative energy production.

So a war that boosts both oil and inflation plays into the fascist power grab globally.

Fukan yes

• D\L all assets locally
• proper 3-2-1 of local machines
• duty roster of other contributors with same backups
• automate and have regular checks as part of production
• also sandbox the stochastic parrot

Anyone who knows what Linux actually is, isn’t buying these.

It will just hammer that swap file until you get down to a couple dozen chrome tabs!

Nah chrome (worst case scenario) with about 80 tabs total on a M1 Air w/8gb is okay, I see it often doing IT support. This should be a bit better. A18pro is pretty efficient.

Used Macs carry a pretty big inflated premium for about 6 years while supported.

I have six or more 10+yr-old refurb Macs running all different distros of linux, testing for permacomputing viability then selling very cheap. They run mostly great, though the laptops all struggle with sleep and battery management compared with macOS. Some, the cameras or mics need a lot of terminal futzing around to get working adequately.

Get a lenovo 480 if you are shopping for a used laptop. A 2015 MacBook pro running Debian derivatives or Fedora is very pleasant if you’re not picky about battery life. Zorin is pretty for that mac aesthetic.

I buy new because my service requires up to date production software, and output on time-is-money schedules. Business expenses amortize quickly, due to tax, equipment turnover is expected.

Utter bullshit disinformation. SoC, look it up.

That’s odd, because it is similar in performance to the M1 Air which is still pretty banging at basic introductory media production.

If you are running a proper production lab you aren’t using $600 computers anyway, or you are economizing guerilla-film style. If you wanted to introduce 1080p NLE or basic DAW to incoming noobs, probably an okay device… but a lab should be using desktops anyway or your curriculum is badly broken. Definitely get minis if you’re doing macs.

This basic laptop in a premium case with great battery life is for folks doing lots of admin or studying and running office, with Pixelmator or Affinity or other mid range production apps. It WILL run photoshop fine if you don’t work on large files.

No one was asking for permission or agreement, it was stated for context. Your conviviality was being requested, however.

While I agree with most of your comments in this post, performative blocking reminds me of why I stopped using Mastodon much, so many grandstanding block proclamations over there, which just increases general toxicity with ego and spite.

Yet even morons can sort the recycling and walk on the proper side of the path. Keep pushing.

Well yes, social behaviour is bounded by rules that are maintained through reinforcement. So more threads like this one, please! We educate each other here. Media literacy is a skill.

I do exactly that, engage with comments I think are wrong, or misunderstood, or even harassing, but reserve downvotes for stuff that is really in the wrong place or very obviously rude or offensive, or just mouthbreathing stupid, like hatred or revenge wanking.

Votes are for quality, not conformity.

Easy to be argumentative when you don’t read the comment before replying.

Or, you have adhd, and a neurodivergent response to stimulants.

So, Onomatopoeia there is wondering why xmpp isn’t standard, and I’m getting the sense that it is targeted at oldskool usage.

Discord is popular because it’s easy to start using, it has collaboration features like group screensharing, and it doesn’t assume an ubernerd is the target audience.

Maybe we’ll get a more unified, feature rich xmpp implementation, but until then, sounds like matrix/element is closer, despite its warts.

Neither of those client promo pages mention group calling. le sigh

Does it do screen sharing, group calls, etc.?