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Hey I'm Wassim Mehanna, this is my indie dev studio. Building LucidPal, osx-proxmox-next & more. 🛠️ Support on Ko-fi:

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Built osx-proxmox-next so setting up a macOS VM on Proxmox takes 5 minutes instead of an afternoon. Working toward GPU passthrough support. Currently at $59/$1000. If it's saved you time: https://t.co/gnNqppMFAi

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If osx-proxmox-next has saved you time, a coffee goes a long way: https://t.co/gnNqppMFAi

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@RageMonk Unfortunately, that would not work. Proxmox works on x64 cpu arch. Natively, Apple doesn’t offer vm support 😕

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Every guide for macOS on Proxmox tells you to:
- Download OpenCore
- Run GenSMBIOS
- Edit config.plist with plistlib
- Debug whatever broke
- Repeat 3 times

This is optional now.

osx-proxmox-next paste one command, answer 6 questions, done in under 5 minutes.

GitHub: https://t.co/22CdFN4IG7

Support the GPU passthrough fund if it saved you an afternoon.

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@RageMonk yeah that might just work, it's the right gpu. this will need gpu passthrough though and needs bios edits, node edits and vm config.

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@RageMonk doable... but not with a nuc :-( this will work better with a custom built pc and a compatible gpu.

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@RageMonk The only use case i found without gpu acceleration is to use it as a CICD pipeline to build IOS ipa; or as any other macos server stuff. Not really enjoyable as a day to day vm usage 🤷‍♂️

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Setting up a macOS VM on Proxmox manually costs you 4-6 hours. Every. Single. Time. 😮‍💨

osx-proxmox-next does it in under 5 minutes. One command.

🍏 Ventura / Sonoma / Sequoia / Tahoe 26
✅ Auto OpenCore, auto SMBIOS, dry-run preview
⚡ Intel, AMD, Xeon supported

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://t.co/xcXb2Jd5Ht)"

https://t.co/22CdFN4aQz

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Tahoe is heavier than Sonoma/Sequoia on emulated hardware.. few things that might help:

- Pin CPUs: set cores=4,sockets=1 and bind to physical cores with taskset
- Set vga=virtio or vga=none and disable compositing in macOS (Reduce Motion, turn off transparency)
- Sonoma runs noticeably lighter if you don't specifically need Tahoe

Also, macos without gpu passthrough will absolutely go slow because the lack of support of Metal; and your Nuc igpu is not supported for passthrough =/

There's a script in the project you can run to make things faster, see -> https://t.co/LBNYeg1xXM

What vCPU count and RAM are you running?

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Wotao Yin just supported me on Ko-fi! https://t.co/utiQXoxlAc

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@arielmichaeli @seraleev That money is company money. Withdraw it to invest in stock market and you get taxed. Am i missing something with your suggestion?

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@SirPriestley @Cedric_Roberge I am also curious

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Anyone else feel like quit smoking apps are missing the partner / support person completely?

My fiancée quit after years of smoking and vaping.

The thing is that every app we looked at was built for the quitter alone, streak counters, craving timers, savings calculators.

All solo.

But what actually helped her quit was having me around. Knowing I'd pick up when she was struggling. Knowing I wasn't judging her when she slipped...

None of the apps we tried had anything for the support person =/

Is this just us or do others feel like this is a massive gap?

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I have a goal of 10 monthly sponsors. I'm currently at 0! Come support my open source project osx-proxmox-next. https://t.co/0ahqRGrLxz

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Setting up a macOS VM on Proxmox manually costs you 4-6 hours every single time.

OpenCore plist editing. GenSMBIOS. Copying ISOs. Typing out qm commands. One wrong flag = start over.

I built a tool that does it in under 5 minutes.

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@EarnheartGold @seraleev That is exactly what I was thinking… 1% of $1 million is a lot of money lost

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My most used app right now is one I built myself ;-)
Still a work in progress but this is the first screen!

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@seraleev After coding for > 20 years, I feel this is an opportunity because i can see code smell what ai generated code does most of the time they are easy fixes. My focus is now on something I never ever did before. Visibility, SEO, onboarding, human psychological rules ... woah!

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Here's my honest moment: my app LucidPal almost shipped in Swift. I spent months on it.

I'm a web dev. 20+ years of it. I thought I could learn iOS native fast enough. well I was wrong.

Older devices were struggling. The experience wasn't what I wanted to give you. And the gap between "good enough" and "smooth" in native iOS isn't a quick fix :-( it's years of hard-won experience.

So I am rebuilding it. From scratch. now in Ionic.

It feels faster on older phones. I can actually move quickly. And now, i feel I can sleep at night.

Sometimes the right call is the humbling one. 🤷‍♂️