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I hate that you are forced to sign up for an Apple account just to install XCode which is required for Homebrew which pretty much makes the machine useless.

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This is not correct. All you need is the command line tools, which brew tells you to install with `xcode-select --install`. No account needed.

Oh shoot thank you, for some reason when I last looked it seemed it was implied you needed the whole Xcode package.

Guess I'll give that machine another go now.

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