| 25 Jan 2025 |
emily | I think that many people stopped sending money to the OpenCollective when toonn was no longer getting paid for Darwin work so FWIW I'd expect its incomings to be at a low ebb right now (but still more than enough to rent a couple macs) | 10:02:40 |
emily | In reply to @janne.hess:helsinki-systems.de we might want to move that conversation to #infra:nixos.org, don't we? Since these topics affect all mac infra? I guess? do they? the ofborg macs were distinctly separate back then | 10:03:08 |
emily | I've never had a super clear picture though | 10:03:27 |
hexa | They still are | 10:03:29 |
Janne Heß | They still are, but if we find a very cost-effective and long-term solution, we might do that for all macs | 10:03:36 |
emily | I think just having some macs lying around at Obsidian is maybe not the ideal level of reliability/security/management interface for Hydra | 10:04:21 |
emily | but it's probably a very effective way to throw $1.5k at sleeping up ofborg | 10:05:08 |
emily | uh. speeding 😆 | 10:05:16 |
emily | anyway let me know if I can help but frankly I'm probably not the most time-effective way to get some emails sent at this point | 10:07:14 |
emily | getting in touch with Obsidian seems like a very good idea in general if ofborg is currently relying on mystery meat IPs that might randomly go down | 10:07:43 |
Janne Heß | Not sure that currently happens | 10:08:21 |
emily | as in those macs aren't currently in use? | 10:11:10 |
Janne Heß | Ah scratch that, I misunderstood you | 10:11:33 |
emily | I just mean a line of communication to your colo provider is always a good thing to have :) | 10:12:13 |
emily | (thanks for all your work on getting ofborg back up, I know there's a ton of stuff to juggle 💜) | 10:12:45 |
Janne Heß | Probably yes :D | 10:12:59 |
Janne Heß | I'll see what I will do next week. I'm a but busy this weekend | 10:13:34 |
emily | uh, speaking of which I wonder what MDM account those macs are connected to at this point | 10:14:54 |
Janne Heß | No apple account it seems | 10:17:28 |
emily | they were set up with https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/macos-ephemeral at least in the past | 10:26:51 |
Janne Heß | Hmm can't out how to use mosyle | 10:31:34 |
Janne Heß | * Hmm can't figure out how to use mosyle on the cli | 10:32:14 |
emily | probably something for later investigation, but having access to the MDM should help down the line | 10:33:41 |
emily | could probably share it with whatever happens for the foundation macs? | 10:33:51 |
Janne Heß | sounds like a good idea | 10:37:43 |
Janne Heß | not sure if that helps but all of the ofborg macs are currently macstadium ones | 10:38:04 |
Janne Heß | https://github.com/ofborg/ofborg-infrastructure/blob/master/macs/flake-module.nix#L22-L65 | 10:38:36 |
emily | right, so I guess the physical macs aren't being used yet | 10:43:16 |
emily | so getting in touch with Obsidian should help at least a little with capacity all on its own | 10:43:38 |
emily | if ofborg is currently down one basement from before | 10:43:57 |