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Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by moreira »

gizdan wrote: post #8
programmer_dude wrote: post #2

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

In much of Europe commas are thousand separators, dots are decimal point separators. So what you're seeing is fifty eight euros and thirty one euro-cents.

You might be surprised to find that that is not the case in Europe. In fact, apart from China and English-influenced countries, very few countries around the world use dots for decimal points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Countries_us...

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by programmer_dude »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #26
programmer_dude wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's not selling you a Mac mini for €58.31. It's letting you rent one for €58.31 a month. That's why it says "monthly". Hetzner is a hosting provider. [edit: this comment written before the parent comment was edited to include point 1]

The parent comment was posted with point one, the last paragraph was introduced in the edit.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by jordemort »

yodon wrote: post #23
jordemort wrote: post #7

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.

Have you run mautrix-imessage? I'm trying to work through the docs to understand if I could use it as a way to proxy my received imessages (and iOS text messages?) onto my windows device as they arrive.

Yes, right now I run it on an old MacBook Pro, that is otherwise sitting idle. It is very reliable. The only issue I have is HEIC attachments not being displayed on the Element desktop client (due to a lack of support in either Electron or Chromium, I forget what piece was ultimately to blame there.)

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by kleiba »

Eldt wrote: post #9
durnygbur wrote: post #3

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.

Just a photo of ID sent digitally for me (I'm in the EU, might make a difference)

Can you opt out of that and ask for a paper contract via snail mail then?

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by heipei »

kleiba wrote: post #35

I have seen mixed reviews about Hetzner online. Does anyone have any enlightening anecdotal evidence in favor or against the company?

They are truly great for thrifty do-it-yourself hosting. Don't expect customer support or discounts or anything, but their prices are impossible to beat, and everything works as advertised. The big gotcha is that their only points of presence are in Germany and Finland.

My only gripe would be that running your business on Hetzner can be a little bit scary at times since they have so much unattended automation in place to block abuse. For example, if your server is erroneously sending traffic with private IP addresses out of its public interface, they will block the server without warning. I don't have any other providers to compare this against, so that might just be how it is.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Post by Lorin »

I just want a cheap way to live debug sites in Safari / Safari Mobile without being forced to purchase Apple hardware.

Only reasonable option I've come across so far is buying used hardware. VM under Win10/AMD seems like a PITA.

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