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Apple: SSH and FileVault

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georgeburdell ◴[] No.45295378[source]
Biggest change for corporate non-personal Mac usage. Mac Minis are actually fairly good value and good quality for miscellaneous automation purposes. We started switching over to them at work, and the FileVault issue described here was actually one of the big things holding us back.
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TheTaytay ◴[] No.45297133[source]
Ive been curious about using some Macs for general purpose servers. Is there anything else you do to make them easier to administrate as servers? Are you running Mac-specific stuff on them or more general purpose Linux containerized stuff?
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amelius ◴[] No.45299480[source]
It's generally a bad idea to use consumer hardware for servers.
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snovymgodym ◴[] No.45303920{3}[source]
And yet, running clusters of Mac Minis is one of the most common datacenter solutions for when you need MacOS (usually for CI systems that run iOS builds or something similar).
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1. mrtesthah ◴[] No.45304049{4}[source]
If you want iOS build servers Apple’s licensing gives them no other option.