SEselcuka·Jun 28, 2021
You can always rent a Mac [1] or use something like Sosumi [2].
[1] https://www.macstadium.com/
[2] https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap
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7 sourcesI haven't tried it yet for my own projects, but I'm wondering if https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap might work for such purposes. That said, I totally understand you, and am not sure if I care enough about Mac anyway personally.
In Show HN: Filmulator – a streamlined, open-source raw photo editorI'm not sure if this project will go any further, nor if iMessage works inside here, but this is an easier way forward:
https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap
In Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One AppMaybe I'm misunderstanding the PsyStar case, but this seems likely to be illegal.
Psystar, among other things, released "Rebel EFI" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation#Rebel_EFI), which was a way to circumvent OSX's checks that you were running on mac hardware.
Judge Alsup ruled that Rebel EFI was a circumvention technology, and thus not legal under the DMCAs anti-circumvention provisions.
The snap is not running macOS on mac hardware. Even if you run it on a mac laptop, it's using virtualized qemu hardware. It includes a magic hardware string to make macOS run (https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap/blob/def1652e916f/snap/...). That magic string is a circumvention measure which dodges a check macOS makes on boot to see if it's on legitimate hardware, and so I think this project is performing circumvention, similar to Rebel E
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FI.
All the necessary files come from Apple's CDN (Updates),
https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap/blob/master/snap/local/...
Check if there are any restrictions in your EULA when you access Software updates from your Apple computer.
In Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in UbuntuA Canonical employee releasing a wrapper to download and run unlicensed MacOS, and shipping it via Ubuntu's explicitly for-profit app store? There is noooo way this was approved
"Sofireme" seems way more appropriate, or maybe "Sosumyemployer"
edit: double eek: https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap/blob/master/snap/local/...
In Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in UbuntuSosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu
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