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Apple: SSH and FileVault

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507 points ingve | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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georgeburdell ◴[18 Sep 25 21:42 UTC] 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 ◴[19 Sep 25 01:50 UTC] 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 ◴[19 Sep 25 08:57 UTC] No.45299480[source]▶
It's generally a bad idea to use consumer hardware for servers.
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leakycap ◴[19 Sep 25 09:08 UTC] No.45299545{3}[source]▶
Yes, and it's wise not to apply general advice to niche situations: like using a Mac mini for a web host.

With this attitude, we'd all still be running 2U Dell PowerEdge and poor Raspberry Pi would have gone out of business.

It's 2025, almost 2026. A web server from a few years ago has less power than consumer mac Mini today while using much more energy.

Throw out the advice that is from the era of physical install media and let's focus on specific (instead of general, unhelpful) advice as we move into the modern era where cheap computers are just fine.

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comprambler ◴[19 Sep 25 18:33 UTC] No.45304890{4}[source]▶
Your data integrity is at risk not using ECC ram (EXTRA ESPECIALLY IF YOU USE SOFTWARE RAID), which is usually gated out of consumer hardware.

Though those poweredges would have had it.

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1. leakycap ◴[21 Sep 25 07:00 UTC] No.45320670{5}[source]▶
Unless you're sending the Mac mini to space as part of this project, the internal hardware ECC built in to Apple silicon SoC combined with the extremely short unified memory paths removes this as a valid concern

Any software RAID on macOS is a risk I wouldn't be willing to take, but that is another matter entirely and has nothing to do with ECC.