Line 6 Helix Stadium Talk

[ian_dissonance]

I’ll say this in Apple’s favor - I used to be a Mac admin for 3 years before I moved to Linux/Server shit and I was responsible for all of the Apple environment on campus. Out of the roughly 500 devices (talking iMacs, MacBooks, Mac Minis and Mac Pros) only TWO had a hardware issue - one MacBook that just randomly died and wouldn’t boot and an iMac that kept shutting down on its own.

Your record in major deployment is better than mine on like 10 music projects. How tight was that stuff managed?

 

[Dez]

Your record in major deployment is better than mine on like 10 music projects. How tight was that stuff managed?

Almost all of it locked down using Jamf Pro which made it easy to be honest!

Edit: I don’t think I answered the question - I only really made sure that standard software was installed, FileVault enabled. I didn’t have to restrict much of anything because it’s higher ed.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Almost all of it locked down using Jamf Pro which made it easy to be honest!

Nice! Jamf is what we use for Ipad deployment/management. Only one Mac mini to manage thank god

 

[Dez]

Nice! Jamf is what we use for Ipad deployment/management. Only one Mac mini to manage thank god

lol I got all the way to Jamf Expert certified and then bailed as soon as a position opened up that wasn’t customer facing

Y’all probably have an idea but dealing with higher education faculty is a fuckin SLOG lol

 

[Sascha Franck]

Old Ruby Topaz! Nice guy!

Defenitely a nice guy but bats*** crazy for sure.

 

[Dez]

Old Ruby Topaz! Nice guy!

I keep reading this as Ruby Tuesday.

 

[Chocol8]

Only if you never wanted to upgrade the RAM.

Nope! My days of upgrading ram on old computers are behind me.

 

[AlbertA]

Nope! My days of upgrading ram on old computers are behind me.

For you and everyone else - those RAM prices are crazy.

 

[ian_dissonance]

Nope! My days of upgrading ram on old computers are behind me.

It’s probably more affordable just to buy the maxed version now anyways.

 

[Chocol8]

Y’all probably have an idea but dealing with higher education faculty is a fuckin SLOG lol

During my undergraduate years, I worked in IT supporting mostly Unix systems for both the math and physics departments. I don't think anyone with a phd in math is truly sane, and while the physics professors and grad students were closer to human, that's on a relative basis only. There was some seriously crazy shit going on.

 

[Orvillain]

For me to get an equivalent Mac product to my PC, I'm looking at 4 grand. LOOOOOOOOLLLLLL

I'll stick with my M1 Pro and 5950X setups for a fair few years yet

 

[Dez]

For me to get an equivalent Mac product to my PC, I'm looking at 4 grand. LOOOOOOOOLLLLLL

I'll stick with my M1 Pro and 5950X setups for a fair few years yet

Unless you’re gaming or doing 3D rendering, I don’t think anyone needs that kinda horsepower tbh. 16-32gb ram MacBook Air or Mac Mini will do the job - I had to prove that to a film professor who wouldn’t accept that an M1 iMac could compete with their i9 intel iMac Pro - and he admitted defeat lol

 

[Orvillain]

Unless you’re gaming or doing 3D rendering, I don’t think anyone needs that kinda horsepower tbh. 16-32gb ram MacBook Air or Mac Mini will do the job - I had to prove that to a film professor who wouldn’t accept that an M1 iMac could compete with their i9 intel iMac Pro - and he admitted defeat lll

I semi agree. For a development machine doing machine learning, DSP, or other intensive tasks, all the juice you can get is a big help. At the same time if you're building plugins, you want access to modest machines too; otherwise you end up building shit that requires CERN to run!

 

[Dez]

I semi agree. For a development machine doing machine learning, DSP, or other intensive tasks, all the juice you can get is a big help. At the same time if you're building plugins, you want access to modest machines too; otherwise you end up building shit that requires CERN to run!

Oh yeah I could see that too