jhartwig

That really sucks. Sorry for your friend.

My first real paycheck job was a store in Beaverton Oregon that would buy and sell software. Folks would buy the software, copy the disc, bring it back to us to and we would reseal and sell it. I was always more interested in the actual hardware side and spend most of my day helping the pc tech. I think the store got sued eventually for basically pirating Windows.

That is awesome! I love the origin stories.

Nothing compares to the old school large dell lcds. I had one years ago that was a furnace.

Yep that's the one

I had thought it had been used during the gulf war in a friendly fire event.

No not really. We have found a few smaller players but their ability to scale concerned me. We talked to one and I asked "if we do a new acquisition and I need 2000 Mac desktops in a month. What would you do?". I was surprised that they were as honest as they were, they simply said they could not procure that many in that period of time. We are a big AWS shop, I think a solution we are toying with is using Mac ec2 instances and building an orchestration layer that essentially setup one for a user, load the base tooling, enroll in MDM and email the customer with login details. Im not sure what protocol we would use yet though.... anyway... tldr NO.

Not that I have found... My team runs our virtualization infra for end user computing (VDI) and our dev div runs almost entirely on MacOS. One of the frequent requests we have as we scale out more globally is to get virtual Mac desktops. There are a few providers that we have found, stateside but they don't scale well. There is of course EC2 offerings from AWS, which is basically what they are doing at Github with Mac minis.

I love the theme of this blog but the side bar just disappears when scrolling which is kinda jarring.

What a fantastic blog post!

Good lord, HN nerds are just as bad as the Instagrammers they detest. Nobody is going to makerspaces and losing fingers and whining on social media.

(Make sure I wasn’t a narc) What does this mean in the context? Were they afraid of getting shut down during covid or something? I’m assuming that is what you meant.

'actual stupidity'... gotta love the general disdain of the 'run of the mill business drone'... It's funny my wife is a run of the mill business drone. She thinks IT is a bunch of assholes. I would say she is probably right. Way to keep things going.

If that was the video I saw yesterday.... wow. That pilot should be thanking every god from every belief. That missle just barely missed him.