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I have seen mixed reviews about Hetzner online. Does anyone have any enlightening anecdotal evidence in favor or against the company?
I had actually bought a bunch of M1 Minis that I set up as a video encoding farm. The organization I set it up for moved on, so now I'm sitting with 8 M1 minis. 1 of them is my daily driver, but the other 7 are just sitting there. I contemplated setting up a rental service for them (something like $40-50/mo?) since I have symmetric 2 gbps fiber to my office, but I just haven't prioritized. Are people actually interes…
It requires a bunch of software development to get such a service running. In a Cloud way. Also you need to enroll them in an organization, so the user can not become rough and bind them to their private Apple ID and bricking it. You could donate them to open source projects for improving their software (either physical or as a service).
Would this actually brick them? Wouldn't a factory reset (how I've always re-imaged Macs) not wipe that out?
Hosting providers would also love it because it's super small form factor and extremely low on power usage.
A Linux based M1 Max with ECC memory (and no GPU) would be a phenomenal server that could run the vast majority of hosting workloads. Hosting providers would also love it because it's super small form factor and extremely low on power usage.
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Apple does not believe there are any electronics out side of Apple, nor that there are any web browsers outside of Safari. Apple believe everyone on the plant should only ever use Apple hardware, and Apple Software, why would anyone not want to run over priced low quality products?
Meanwhile the CEO uses a windows machine with outlook.
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It requires a bunch of software development to get such a service running. In a Cloud way. Also you need to enroll them in an organization, so the user can not become rough and bind them to their private Apple ID and bricking it. You could donate them to open source projects for improving their software (either physical or as a service).
> bind them to their private Apple ID and bricking it. Would this actually brick them? Wouldn't a factory reset (how I've always re-imaged Macs) not wipe that out?
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Your nick is programmer_dude and a dot for a decimal point confuses you?
Yes, it managed to confuse me. Here's how... 1. I did not notice the M1 was being offered on rent. I assumed it was for sale at the listed price. 2. Since 58.31 € is an unrealistic price for an M1 machine (and since this is a European site) I concluded the site must be using a comma instead of a dot. 5831 € is a realistic price for a Mac afterall. Unfortunately the site is using a dot for a dot despite being European…
Not really... the Mac Pro is famous for its high price, but this explicitly says mac mini which is almost exactly an order of magnitude less than 5831 € .
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> bind them to their private Apple ID and bricking it. Would this actually brick them? Wouldn't a factory reset (how I've always re-imaged Macs) not wipe that out?
If the users manage to get the hardware banned from Apple dev tools, then it's as good as bricked in my opinion as it can't function in its' intended fashion and a factory reset doesn't help.
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It's a shame that web developers have to spend $500 to buy a bespoke web-browsing machine just to make their sites work better with Apple hardware. If Apple wanted people to treat their browser seriously, they should have simulators and developer tooling to spare.
or just release safari cross-platform.