Only Setup You Need To Search For Cat Videos

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Hardware Networking MacOS Apple

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Only Setup You Need To Search For Cat Videos

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Someone built a literal Mac Mini data center just to browse the internet. That's right—dozens of Mac Minis, meticulously cabled and racked like they're running a Fortune 500 company's infrastructure, when in reality they're probably just streaming YouTube.

The joke here is the absolutely insane overkill of creating a server farm with what appears to be 40+ Mac Minis (each costing a cool $600-$2000) for the most mundane task imaginable: watching cat videos. It's like hiring a NASA engineer to microwave your burrito.

The cable management is actually pretty clean though, not gonna lie. Someone really said "if I'm going to waste an absurd amount of money on unnecessary hardware, I'm at least going to make it look professional." Respect the commitment to the bit, even if your electricity bill now rivals a small country's GDP.

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