Thank you!

We have all the hosts enrolled into MDM, so we have all sorts of access ready: SSH, KVM, VNC, MDM. With Macs in the DC we found having all these ways to access the machines is really essential. Things break in unexpected ways.

In terms of settings, besides the obvous (do not sleep, do not auto-update, etc), disabling USB restricted mode helps a lot (Privacy&Security > Allow accessories to connect) - no need to approve connected devices via UI.

What are you building if it's not a secret?

Virtualization does not expose this to VMs

Apple doesn't give direct control over that unfortunately. Here is an excellent article on that topic: https://eclecticlight.co/2023/10/23/how-does-macos-manage-vi...

That stack is based on xtool at its core (xtool.io). It's very cool, but still early for steady enterprise use IMO.

Also it doesn't have iOS Simulator, so automated testing is out of question. I doubt that porting the Simulator would be feasible, since it requires macOS kernel.

Well, maybe with XNU in a VM and reimplementing parts of macOS userland. Would love to see someone try.

Link for reference: https://github.com/joshuaswarren/omarchy-apple-dev

It has been used to build and and submit an app on a Linux machine, according to: https://x.com/JoshuaSWarren/status/2109068298537066710

This directly challenges the author's claim "You can't build iOS apps without a Mac."

omarchy-apple-dev is built on: https://xtool.sh which is "a cross-platform (Linux/WSL/macOS) tool that replicates Xcode functionality with open standards."

There's also: https://github.com/MarcoDotIO/Ycode - which even includes an experimental simulator.

Yeah, as alluded to in the post, we have a custom p2p distribution, very inspired by BitTorrent. So you're on the right track :). We'll probably share more on that topic at some point too.

But honestly before we had that, we started with a system where nodes pulled whole images from each other (a decentralized algorithm without central coordination, but no chunking). It worked surprisingly well considering how simple the implementation was.

You already have an answer[0], and have asked this twice [1] since.. are you automated?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360432

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360445

I was hopeful that they might lift the limit with a refresh of Mac Pro (it even had a rack mount version). But with Mac Pro discontinued not keeping the hopes up anymore.

Doh :/. An LLM would not make such a silly mistake.

Fixing, thank you!