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Mind that this is Zoom Rooms, a "calendar"/meeting room billboard/management tool like that facebook one that was posted here a bit ago[1]. It's supposed to be

by meibo 6y ago

Mind that this is Zoom Rooms, a "calendar"/meeting room billboard/management tool like that facebook one that was posted here a bit ago[1]. It's supposed to be on 24/7 and I assume they just found that it's the easiest to reboot mac OS on a cronjob every Sunday to keep the system stable, not like it's necessarily made for that job. I don't think there's ever been a Mac made for embedded use, in the case of the Facebook one, they had the money to put in the engineering to build a custom solution. I often see iPads running zoom rooms as well though. [1]: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1310377930661351424?s=19 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1310377930661351424?s=19

w0de 6y ago
The iPads are generally paired with a mac mini - they don't run the zoom room, they are just the scheduler. (The iPads also emit a subsonic signal that allows other macs to autojoin the meeting.) Source: I run this setup for a startup. And - well before this request from ZoomPrensence.app - we were weekly rebooting these mac minis via launch daemon. Would continue to do so no matter the specific meeting app - macOS updates often require a reboot.
w0de 6y ago
> I don't think there's ever been a Mac made for embedded use Actually... The trashcan, which often power mac virtualization farms: https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-mac-pro-2013-trashcan-guide.html#tknow https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-ma... The rack-mounted xserve, which is old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve Maybe not "embedded," but not end user devices.