• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      No, I don’t care to hold your hand and explain to you the whole idea of an industry preferring you have a specific piece of technology over others and how finding out you have that piece of technology helps you get work. You’ll have to figure that one out for yourself.

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          Let me introduce you to a little thing called media production workflow, where there are over 500 different file formats in active use, and getting it right forms the basis of most links in a chain hundreds of links long.

          You start sending me botched files with the wrong codecs and see if I don’t find another subcontractor immediately.

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                  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.

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          2 months ago

          Well you clearly know my industry better than I do, so I’ll defer to your expert knowledge.

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            Are we just talking about Final Cut Pro here? Theres a pretty short list of applications that don’t work on linux or windows well.

            Do you just mean its easier to get a job if you have a Mac?

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              The latter, yes. If you go to a meeting and don’t have a MBP, they’re going to think you don’t know what you’re doing half the time. And if you have a MBP for remote work, you might as well have an iMac or a Mac Pro to do work with at home too.

              I’m out of the industry now and my MBP died, so I’m running Mint on a Thinkpad. And when this iMac dies, I’ll probably do something similar.

              But if you are in the industry and show up to a meeting with a Thinkpad (or any other non-Mac), they’re often going to think you’re an amateur.

              Is it fair? No. But them’s the breaks.

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                I think you are essentially saying using Apple on average will make you more money, but I would say that money isnt always the most important thing.

                Plenty of people choose to make less money than they know they could with other means, for a variety of reasons.

                The question is whether there is room at all for that group of people in your industry in the US?

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                  I would say that money isnt always the most important thing.

                  Then you don’t have kids.

                  Sorry, I’m not going to stop putting food on the table out of some anti-Apple idealism. There are far bigger issues in this world than which type of computer people choose to buy.

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                    I do have kids, that’s why I care about where the money I’m paid comes from, and what my work contributes to my community and those outside of it as well.

                    I don’t think there is value here to teaching my kids that they should only do or value what those who make the most money do or value.

                    Moderation of everything is important, including the pursuit of wealth.