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I'd recommend against it. Apple's software ecosystem isn't as friendly for self hosting anything, storage is difficult to add, ram impossible, and you'll be beholden to macOS running things inside containers until the good folks at Asahi or some other coummity startup add partial linux support.

And yes, I've tried this route. I ran an m1 mac mini as a home server for a while (running jellyfin and some other containers). It pretty consistently ran into software bugs (less maintained than x64 software) and every time I wanted to do an update instead of sudo whateveryourdistroships update, and a reboot, it was an entire process involving an apple account, logging into the bare metal device, and then finally running their 15-60 minute long update. Perfectly fine and acceptable for home computing, but not exactly a good experience when you're hosting a service.

The only sector that might be worse is middle management data processing like the Healthcare sector. Doing a pointless job like that all day every day is soul sickening.

Wait... You want us to pay humans? - Every triple A gaming company since 2010.

Part of this is Apple's fault. They were part of the head council of the Kronos group responsible for Vulkan, but chose to implement a proprietary graphics API (Metal) over just rolling Vulkan.... Developers obviously don't want to support an additional graphics library on top of what they already do (significant effort) so you lose a lot of games that would've been otherwise marginally expensive to port over.

A full year of multi month hikes across the world. I want to see it all and meet new people.

Yeah. Microsoft has definitely cornered the market on corporate education for sysadmins.

Linux supports active directory natively and can be joined to a windows hosted active directory domain. It supports centralized policy management as well and in addition there's a completely open source implementation in: https://www.openldap.org/ supported by RedHat.

Nothing forever will feel oh so fast when you lose any frame of reference.

... Clicking the button? Switches have a finite lifespan, just because I click it a lot doesn't make it an abused peripheral or anything I just work IT from home and play a lot of click intensive games tbh

I do often suspect apple releases things that are "hate magnets" to distract from failings in the rest of their product lineup. Like, have you seen the bra "case" for the airpods max? There's no way they greenlit that thinking people would like it or find it visually appealing... Right?

Tbh best peripheral purchase I've made. The charging pad has even outlasted the mice I've used it with and I've never had any issues, just a completely wireless mouse that never dies.

There's more money flowing through linux systems than you can even imagine. It's an incredibly lucrative target that runs approx 85-90% of all internet service servers.