I own an original Raspberry Pi model B (still running 24/7 in a project) for which I was on the pre-order from one of the first few batches (I think I just missed out on the first 10,000 or so), I eventually purchased an upgraded model B with 512MB ram and then I instantly purchased the Pi 2.
Very useful things, and the progress made is wonderful.
I've found during my own research that running an OS X VM sending out iMessages for too long will eventually get itself and its host machine blacklisted from iCloud services for a few days. Not sure how they detect the host but I can cause it consistently. I think the VM is blacklisted by its bad SN
No, sorry; I stopped using iMessage because it wasn't worthwhile to integrate with a system that didn't approve of my use. But when you get cut off, there's no explicit indication, the messages are just not delivered, I think I stopped getting indications that people were on iMessage (the green? bubbles) as well.
Yeah that's what I've come up with in my testing as well. It's kind of surprising that there isn't more research into it. Just all of the sudden iMessages stop sending, then a few days later they magically start sending again
I never actually experienced any rate limiting/blacklisting issues while I ran it. I even tested spamming messages to myself, it worked but upset my iOS notifications a fair bit maybe I just got lucky.
I got fed up the other week and on a whim switched to Xubuntu on my 2013 MBA and other than no drivers for the PCI based webcam (Apple webcams no longer sit on the USB bus) which I barely used anyway, everything is pretty much fine apart from a few quirks (Trackpad settings and brightness control which were easily fixed). I had a Time Machine backup just in case if I hated it.
If anything after spending years using various distros on servers it makes sense to start using it on the desktop too as it is exactly the same experience I'm used to, with a bonus of a GUI.
