{"id":39276,"date":"2023-05-04T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T19:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39276"},"modified":"2023-05-04T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T01:40:10","slug":"the-endless-uses-for-an-always-on-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/04\/the-endless-uses-for-an-always-on-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"The Endless Uses for an Always-on Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2023\/04\/the-endless-uses-for-an-always-on-mac\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2023\/04\/the-endless-uses-for-an-always-on-mac\/\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve had a Mac running as a server in my house for more than 20 years now, and I have zero regrets. As <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2018\/03\/how-i-use-my-home-server\/\">I detailed five years ago<\/a>, the specific uses for my always-on Mac have changed numerous times over the decades, but the various Macs that have served the purpose have always made themselves useful.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s what that Mac mini currently does: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m currently running two such Macs. The first is a 2012 MacBook Pro running Mojave, which provides access to my ScanSnap and label printer. I sometimes reboot it in High Sierra or Catalina to test with those versions of the operating system. I also use it when I have lots of stuff to download, e.g. a set of new WWDC videos.<\/p>\n<p>The other is an M1 Mac mini, which runs servers for Git and Time Machine, downloads iCloud photos and Apple passwords from multiple accounts, runs Xcode tests (on macOS <em>n-1<\/em>), filters some mail accounts with SpamSieve, and does long-running copies and verifications of archives and backup drives. It&rsquo;s connected to an extra HDMI port on our TV to save space, but I mostly access it via Screen Sharing.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/20\/photos-data-loss-with-macos-13-3-beta\/\">Photos Data Loss With macOS 13.3 Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/01\/xcode-cloud-subscriptions-now-available\/\">Xcode Cloud Subscriptions Now Available<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/64-bit-scansnap-manager-for-older-scanners\/\">64-bit ScanSnap Manager for Older Scanners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/the-best-laptop-ever-made\/\">The Best Laptop Ever Made<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell: I&rsquo;ve had a Mac running as a server in my house for more than 20 years now, and I have zero regrets. As I detailed five years ago, the specific uses for my always-on Mac have changed numerous times over the decades, but the various Macs that have served the purpose have always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-05-04T19:45:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"df770adb-f612-4cf9-9ad0-cf6942f8de0a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-05-05T01:40:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A33cK2_YSTPma0M9pQvjeCg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2165,146,1008,2038,952,377,1142,30,557,1609,2223,372,268,216,1221],"class_list":["post-39276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-password-manager","tag-backup","tag-dymo","tag-fast-user-switching","tag-fujitsu-scansnap","tag-git","tag-icloud-photo-library","tag-mac","tag-macmini","tag-macos-10-14","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-spamsieve","tag-testing","tag-timemachine","tag-wwdc"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39285,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39276\/revisions\/39285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}