531: Interview With Mr. Macintosh of MrMacintosh.com
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-This week we welcome the one and only Mr. Macintosh (aka Ryan).
-Ryan has been around Apple products since 2010
-His first Mac was a blue & white G3 tower.
-During a rough hiring time, he found an all Mac based company that hired him.
-His company was then taken over by a Fortune 500 company, which provided him with great opportunities.
-We talk about finding helpful forums with detailed solutions to a problem you are researching.
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DerFlounder - Rich Trouton
-ChatGPT and similar services are still in their infancy and are inaccurate at times.
-Mr. Macintosh started his site to try to give back to the community but discusses the challenges of running a blog site.
-He talks about a few specific articles that he recalls.
-Spelling and grammar has always been a difficulty but he took it as a way to get better.
-“When you have a passion, it makes it easier to spend that extra time on it.”
-There is a level of responsibility and stress when posting things like commands that can be destructive.
-We get into supported operating systems and hardware.
-“Right to repair” is a hot topic that Joe has some thoughts on.
-You can find Ryan on the MacAdmins Slack and on Twitter (or X) as ClassicII.