So as the title says, I run a homelab with various technologies — Proxmox, Home Assistant, a reverse proxy, lots of Ubiquiti equipment, and so on. Over the years I’ve consumed countless hours of articles, stack overflow posts, youtube channels, and knowledge bases to keep myself up to speed on how to use this equipment and what new outcomes I should aim for.
I’m also deeply invested in the Apple ecosystem, with Apple TVs, iPads, Phones, Macbook Pros, and even a homepod. I’ve noticed that the Apple equipment has far less documentation on the whole. I watch Apple events to learn what new features a device will have, but I don’t really see a lot of tutorials or even instruction on how to use it.
Where do you go to get the kind of in-depth learning for your Apple devices that is needed to make expert use of them? Do you have favorite youtube channels that I haven’t discovered yet? Please post below and let me know!
As far as YouTube goes, there seems to be mostly people who will “review” a device at the specs level with no actual use, and then there’s those people who make a video for every little update saying “100 new features in iOS 17.1”, and then they tell you about pixel shift here, a font change there… mostly useless information.
There’s MKBHD and Snazzy Labs, but even they leave lots to be desired at the enthusiast level of interest.
I once spent a hand full of hours with top tier apple tech support on an issue w my MacBook. They could not figure it out. No one on the internet seemed to have the issue, nor know how to solve it. Eventually, I figured it out myself (a mismatch between some combination of iCloud/laptop/keychain passwords, I forgot which specifically, where making it impossible for me to change lock screen settings)
This is the kind of thing I’d love to have enthusiasts around to figure out. I’d have found that for other products. But I think your typical apple user would just go with apple support when they throw their hands up and say to factory reset the laptop. And far too many of apples user base is that typical user.