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Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

#11

Is Hetzner still sending paper contract over snail mail to use their services? Then requiring the signed paper contract be sent back by post? I haven't cared enough about their offer to check by myself again.

They asked for me to send a selfie holding my Hong Kong Identity Card but no other bureaucracy.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

#12

This could be an interesting way to run mautrix-imesssage. I wonder if they've got it hooked up to some sort of remote console solution; I've never been able to figure out how to get less-than-wretched performance out of the VNC server baked into the OS.

> This could be an interesting way to run mautrix-imesssage

Wouldn't you be able to have only a single identity? Because unless you can have multiple identities with a single instance, it would be a very expensive way of having iMessage capabilities.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

#13

This could be an interesting way to run mautrix-imesssage. I wonder if they've got it hooked up to some sort of remote console solution; I've never been able to figure out how to get less-than-wretched performance out of the VNC server baked into the OS.

Apparently mautrix-imessage supports jailbroken iphones. Isn't that much more cost effective (eg. $50 for a used iphone 4s) than paying $50/month?

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

#14

Is Hetzner still sending paper contract over snail mail to use their services? Then requiring the signed paper contract be sent back by post? I haven't cared enough about their offer to check by myself again.

Never experienced anything like that, been a happy user for about half a decade.

Me neither, been using them for 15 years.

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#15
post #6

Anyone know if they install ARD for remote desktop access? It's pretty difficult to administer a Mac remotely without MDM and/or ARD.

According to a thread on their forum, you get SSH access and can install/activate VNC afterwards (or whatever else you may prefer).

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

#17

Is Hetzner still sending paper contract over snail mail to use their services? Then requiring the signed paper contract be sent back by post? I haven't cared enough about their offer to check by myself again.

in the US I was required to file ID by paper to start an account-- much later the project migrated, my manager apparently stopped paying the bill and it was in my personal name

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

#18
post #16

Is 58.31 = 5831 here? It's doubly confusing: dot instead of comma and separator at the hundredths position.

Your nick is programmer_dude and a dot for a decimal point confuses you?

Let's not be a jerk to people who are trying to learn. We all started out unaware of things we now consider essential knowledge. For (my) example, timezones offsets can and do include partial hour offsets (+0415 is/was real), and dates should generally be YYYY-MM-DD (when not displayed to end users) for your sanity (and because iso8601).

OP, you can look up the numeric formats for Germany in your system preferences or Excel or similar — it can help to see them templated out sometimes.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

#19
post #12

This could be an interesting way to run mautrix-imesssage. I wonder if they've got it hooked up to some sort of remote console solution; I've never been able to figure out how to get less-than-wretched performance out of the VNC server baked into the OS.

> This could be an interesting way to run mautrix-imesssage Wouldn't you be able to have only a single identity? Because unless you can have multiple identities with a single instance, it would be a very expensive way of having iMessage capabilities.

VMs have been a thing in the Mac world for a long time now, and these would be powerful enough to run a bunch of them.
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