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Re:ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance by pazimzadeh on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:54PM (#36473938)
what about on apple silicon macs?
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Re:ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance by Shawnj2 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:57PM (#36473959)
You can’t boot off of non internal storage because Apple
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Re:ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance by robertoandred on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:47PM (#36475156)
Of course you can.
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Re:ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance by evilduck on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:59PM (#36475242)
You can, it's just less easy than in the pre-T2 Intel Mac days.

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/06/02/booting-an-m1-mac-extern...

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Re:ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance by Shawnj2 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:05PM (#36475282)
Ah, when I installed Asahi a while back I read that it wasn’t possible to install to an external drive and must have gotten it confused with not being able to install any OS to an external drive.
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