Casey Liss

So the way I access these machines, because they're all behind the router at the data center.

So they all run tail scale.

And that allows me to say, you know, SSH, you know, into scribe 23.

And it just gets me there.

So what I do now, when I have to update my transcriber app, is I do an archive build and Xcode, and I export the binary after it's signed, and I just use SSH to SCP it over to each of these Macs, and part of the SSH script is like...

Have launchd stop the app, ssh the new one into place, have launchd start the app again.

And it just goes through the 48 servers and just does that to each one in succession.

And I can push an app update to all of them in about 30 seconds.

So I've kind of already built a lot of what an MDM would give me.

And in a more nerdy way.

But what would be even better is if I didn't have to run Tailscale on all of these.

So if the MDM situation can do things like remote desktop or remote viewing, remote control, if it can do those things and give me network access to them directly without me having to run something like Tailscale on them, that's great.

I don't know that it can do that yet.

Maybe some of them can.

I don't know.

haven't had time to look that much.

But for the most part, most of the features that the MDMs offer are mostly things I don't really need.

So it's not really worth me paying a lot for one of these services.

But there are some like really cheap ones.

And getting to the announcement now, coincidentally, Apple announced yesterday that they've merged all of their various like business backend services into the new thing just called Apple Business.