• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Yeah, who the hell associates macs with higher competence? Before the 00s, I associated mac users with stumbling on the worse option but not realizing it, after the 00s, wanting to follow trends and/or overpay for hardware to seem rich. They’ve always been form over function, and simplicity over power, which are things that novice uses look for, not more experienced ones.

    Or maybe more experienced ones when most of those experiences went badly and little was learned.

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      4 hours ago

      I think the point is not that it’s a MacBook, but that the senior is using a single laptop instead of a full multi-monitor setup.

      Personally as a senior, I use 4 monitors. My eyes are too shit to stare at a tiny laptop screen all day, and I want slack/browser/terminal windows on their own screens. It’s much more comfortable as well.

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      10 hours ago

      Advertising, and Apple buying up some professional software to discontinue their non-Apple versions (as well as disabling customization as “they know better than the users”) made it equal with “professionalism”.