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Re:Zoom asks for permission to restart Mac weekly by meibo on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:45PM (#25540672)
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

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Re:Zoom asks for permission to restart Mac weekly by w0de on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:00PM (#25540749)
> 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-ma...

The rack-mounted xserve, which is old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

Maybe not "embedded," but not end user devices.

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Re:Zoom asks for permission to restart Mac weekly by w0de on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:57PM (#25540731)
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.

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