Episode 477: Punk Rock Mac Lab

So we have a rich tradition here of the bonus question here on the Mac and Men's podcast.

And, you know, I think that, you know, we talked a little bit about punk culture up at the front of it.

And I think a lot about the Mac and Men culture.

And I think a lot about the community of people who do Mac and Men work.

And so what is one part of the Mac and Men culture that should survive, even if the tools that created it disappear?

I really like how the community shares.

I also like how the community doesn't talk down to maybe new admins or admins that aren't as knowledgeable or don't know everything.

So I really hope the community keeps sharing mentality, documenting, being friendly with others that are new to the community or maybe don't know a certain thing in the community.

So I hope that keeps going on with the Mac admins community.

I think you don't get that from other communities like the Linux communities or the Windows community.

It's not as a friendly and enriching and supportive environment, I don't think, as the other communities.

I definitely feel that there's a strong aspect of, hey, none of us is as smart as all of us, you know, within the community.

And I think that that is something that absolutely pays dividends.

Marcus, how about you?

I absolutely, yes, agree with you 100%, Richard.

I'm going to take a little subsection of that.

I'm going to say the merch.

I think about that with, you know, the punk days of, you know, I remember as a, you know, a kid growing up in a country town in Australia and just anybody that was going to a city, getting them to get pin badges for me to put on my jackets or anything like that.

And some of them I didn't even know what these bands were.

But it was like trying to then, you know, the internet didn't exist in those days.

One of the things I love about going to meetups, going to conferences or anything like that is the T-shirts, the pin badges on people's jackets, the stickers on the laptops and everything like that.

And it's a way of being able to identify people this is someone I can have a conversation with either.

Hey, there's something that we both know about.

We can, you know, there's our point of reference or it's the exact opposite.

It's like, Hey, what's that? That looks, that looks interesting.