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Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by TimWolla » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

anelson wrote: post #129

TimWolla wrote: post #115

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SSH by default according to Hetzner's customer forum [1]. [1] https://forum.hetzner.com/index.php?thread/28493/&postID=280...

The customer forum requires a login to access, and unfortunately is often in German. The linked post says this: "Danke für das Interesse an dem neuen Produkt! Die Fragen zum Betriebssystem sollten sich durch die Veröffentlichung der Produktmatrix beantwortet haben. Es wird das aktuelle macOS Big Sur installiert. Bei der Einrichtung und Zugangsmöglichkeiten haben wir uns nur für SSH entschieden. Nicht jeder Kunde möch…

> The customer forum requires a login to access

It's not just a login. You need to actually be a customer. I consider that a good thing, because it allows me (and Hetzner) to speak more freely compared to a fully public forum. That's also why I just linked to the forum instead of quoting.

> and unfortunately is often in German.

That's true. The majority of the active user|customer base is German (I am myself) and thus communicating in German is the obvious choice. I've seen a few English-speaking folks participating by using a translator of choice to read the threads and then simply responding in English. I think it works well enough, as virtually every German understands English. Especially a German running servers.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by hulitu » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 12:27 PM UTC

lostmsu wrote: post #127

schiederme wrote: post #97

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Yes. It’s in the MacOS ToS.

But... why?

So you get the full Apple MacOSX experience.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by hulitu » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 12:30 PM UTC

pmarreck wrote: post #87

rdsnsca wrote: post #55

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Enjoy it while it last, in 3 or 4 years Apple will drop Intel macOS support.

By then, Windows 11+ will have moved onto ARM and whatever cross binary solution Microsoft is working on should be complete. Also, with emulation/virtualization, it's still perfectly feasible

I don't want to destroy your hope but take a look at ARM support in linux. (TL;DR the ARM space is very fragmented so taking a running system from one machine with ARM to another is not possible).

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by hulitu » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 12:36 PM UTC

vxNsr wrote: post #114

joshgachnang wrote: post #64

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I'd love a source on that.

The guy who wrote the book about the making of the iphone sent a bunch of emails to tim cook with tracking enabled and each time it was opened by a windows device. other comments in this thread have more links the story.

Seems a very good idea from a security POV. You get an email and your favourite Email program will be more than happy to open the link and execute the code. And because this is the CEO of Apple, you presume that he is using MacOSX and send him an Apple executable. Which will not run on a windows machine. Now, ransomware on the other way ...

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by pmarreck » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 3:41 PM UTC

hulitu wrote: post #133

pmarreck wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By then, Windows 11+ will have moved onto ARM and whatever cross binary solution Microsoft is working on should be complete. Also, with emulation/virtualization, it's still perfectly feasible

I don't want to destroy your hope but take a look at ARM support in linux. (TL;DR the ARM space is very fragmented so taking a running system from one machine with ARM to another is not possible).

Fortunately, Linux lets you install things by compiling them locally instead of just auto-downloading a binary.

Are you saying that "aarch64" binaries don't run on all ARM chips?