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Yeah! My M1 air is now my iOS build server since GH actions bill macOS mins at 10x the price.

• bryanrasmussen 7mo ago
  why does GH actions bill macOS minis 10X?
  • jzebedee 7mo ago
    Mins here being short for minutes, not minis.
    • mikepurvis 7mo ago
      And, presumably for a combination of the Mac build (and hardware) being of niche interest and sitting outside the standard Linux workflows so it's annoying to administer. And serving a money-making audience (iOS app devs) who have a revenue stream and see the extra CI cost as worth it.
  • UqWBcuFx6NV4r 7mo ago
    What is a macOS mini…
    • NetMageSCW 7mo ago
      Not “mini”, “mins” -> minutes.
  • Robdel12 7mo ago
    Ah sorry minutes, they bill the most for macOS probably because of what a pain it is to scale it with apples EULA (I'm guessing) https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-...
    • bryanrasmussen 7mo ago
      ah ok, minutes makes more sense. thanks.
• gozzoo 7mo ago
  How do you use M1 Air as iOS build server. Is 8G sufficient for only doing iOS builds? Do you connect to it remotely? Couls you please describe your dev process.
  • Robdel12 7mo ago
    It works out pretty okay for me, I do it since GH runners are very expensive and I have my own hardware so why not. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/runners/self-hosted-runners https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/runners/self-hos... I setup a self hosted runner and then use that in my CI workflows. Then I disabled it from sleeping so it can clamshell forever and now it sits here in my living room silently workin' https://imgur.com/a/EaBICdo https://imgur.com/a/EaBICdo