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Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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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.

Source?

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What? Tim Cook use Windows?

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Used totally makes sense. I picked up a Mac Mini with a 27" monitor for $500.

The M1 Mac Mini recently was only $600 on sale.

You can also find a refurbished M1 Mac Mini for under $600 on Apple's refurbished store.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'd love a source on that.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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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...

But English and Chinese influenced countries comprise a significant portion of the world. The top 3 most populous countries use dots for decimals (China, India, United States) according to your link.

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or just release safari cross-platform.

Safari (not WebKit specifically; the rest of the browser) relies on OS libraries. Those libraries would have to be reimplemented for other OSes. I don't mean that that would be an impediment to porting; Apple have done this before—Safari 5 was available for Windows. (And interestingly, vice-versa, IE5 was available for macOS!) What I mean is that the differences in implementation of these OS libraries would mean that…

You're not wrong, but in practice I'd imagine >99% of bugs are in the rendering / webkit layer, not in the OS integration layer.

Sure, if you're making a plugin that plays with bookmarks or 'Read Later', you'd likely run afoul of the issues you mention. But most web devs are concerned just about browser compatibility of rendering their web-app. In this context, as long as web page rendering and JS engine is identical between OS' it's fine.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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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've been a customer for years and have nothing negative to say. They are providing exactly the products they are advertising. Even those specs that don't necessarily have hard numbers attached with all products (disk speed, CPU performance) have always been good.

That said, there are some products certain customers expect that they will not sell you (and don't advertise). For example, you won't be able to click a button to deploy Software Y pre-configured by the provider as you might with Digital Ocean. What you'll get is mostly along the lines of "server with the OS of your choice and your SSH key installed on it". If that's what you're looking for, Hetzner is difficult to beat on price to performance.

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or just release safari cross-platform.

Safari (not WebKit specifically; the rest of the browser) relies on OS libraries. Those libraries would have to be reimplemented for other OSes. I don't mean that that would be an impediment to porting; Apple have done this before—Safari 5 was available for Windows. (And interestingly, vice-versa, IE5 was available for macOS!) What I mean is that the differences in implementation of these OS libraries would mean that…

I don't know about the early versions, but I believe the final version of IE for Mac, though also numbered 5, used an entirely different browser engine from that on Windows. Tasman

http://jimmy.grew.al/macie5-twentieth-anniversary/

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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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.

When did they require this? I haven't used Hetzner in about 8 years, but back then, I did not need to do this, I just signed up online with a credit card.

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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…

> Unfortunately the site is using a dot for a dot despite being European and the M1 is being offered on rent.

You're on the international version of the site.

If you go to the German version, they quote the price as 58,31 €:

https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-apple

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