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by itrash 197 days ago
Trust me, at our scale ... Apple didn't care at all about us, even if Scaleway is one of the biggest cloud provider in France.

And actually the project was made to be faster on the market than AWS on their M1 offer, not to be industrialized at first.
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schmuckonwheels 197 days ago
I get it, you did what you had to do, but you're not the only example.

They have the knowledge and it's existed in the past (Xserve) but they will never do it again because they design and sell furniture now.

Tell me they couldn't design a Mac Mini with holes for rack ears, built in BMC or serial console.... even if it was a specialty product people would pay a premium

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itrash 197 days ago
I totally agree on your comment by the way, it's not ideal at all, I'm not even working on the project anymore, every update, every feature is always a pain as we had to do reverse engineering.

Everything on this project is "hackie", it is not a solution for the future, the day Apple will change their license or break retro compatibility, the project will have no chance to survive.

So yes, the mac mini is absolutely not designed to be placed in a DC, a special product for that purpose would be better. So it's a risky bet from a technical point of view.

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