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How do I update the theme for hexoblog? It seems the hexo theme has been updated a LOT on Github since I installed this blog about a year ago.

I gave up on this whole thing. Nothing but hours wasted and even after 1 week I can't send a message. Pretty sure my account is shadowbanned and I cbf'ed trying to get it to work. Just told my relatives if they want to speak to me they can get Whatsapp or something. I'm not as young and bored as I used to be so tinkering with this sort of thing is just a waste of my time. Thanks a ton to everyone who helped. I hope the information I provided will lead people in the right direction or help convince them that their time is more precious.

So I signed out of everything again. Including disassociating my Mac and signing out of AppleID. Rebooted the Mac. Went to sign in to Apple ID again. aaaand they locked my account... Even worse, because of the GPU rendering issue or whatever. I can't even see what it wants me to do to unlock it. I don't even have a way to quit the process. I've been an IT engineer for more than 15 years and I've never fought like this with anything LOL. Managed to reset my password using Safari without having to face the previous dreaded "We can't send an SMS to this number at this time" issue I had for the last 2 weeks: Managed to login again. This time it synced some ancient notes from iCloud. Interesting. It didn't do that before. No dice. So I took a deep breath and went into BlueBubbles server and reset the entire thing. Seeing as I set it up before ever logging in to AppleID 2 weeks ago. No dice after the reset. Exact same problem. I wonder, do I need to do some kind of port forwarding for the VM through my Asus AX88U router? Even though everything in both the Bluebubbles app and server are green? I'm getting a bunch of DNS requests from Apple when I sync messages via iCloud and when I try and send something. Including one hit to Google Cloud (for the firebase api). But I haven't done any port forwarding. Just assume because it's green it all works. I also noticed that iMessages doesn't appear in System Preferences > Apple ID, as an app using iCloud: @avinyc and @ghost82 sorry to ping, but did either of you use Macinabox to generate the Mac VM you're using? Are either of you even using a VM or are you using a real Mac device to run the server? I am starting to think maybe it's something to do with my Serial Number after talking on Discord with the code owner. Though when I looked up the serial number it says that it is legit. Though my VM specs don't match it "perfectly". If you are using a VM did you set it up some other way? I am just wondering if I missed a step. The code owner was pretty adamant that this is Apple's fault on their side and said that it's an issue with iMessage not working. Not an issue with Bluebubbles as we can confirm that it works fine by messaging myself, just not others.

So after restarting the VM and relogging again a few hours later. A few things changed again... This time when I search for any number it is now no longer red, but blue, until I send a message after which it goes black. Even for contacts that I know don't have iMessage (it shows blue)... Talk about inconsistent. Obviously the message sending still fails. Furthermore, I have green across the board for everything on the BlueBubbles app. It correctly detects my iMessage account too and the Private API and everything else. As mentioned, I can't start a chat with my phone number because I've never had an iPhone to activate iMessage on. The lady from Apple support asked me if I had "activated" iMessage but I have no idea what she means and then she just changed the subject. I can also see the map (just not in FindMy). It works fine in the maps app, and when I try to log in on my Windows device, my Mac pops up with a map showing the location a login is coming from. My Mac is verified on appleid.apple.com Find My Mac doesn't work because I don't have a Wifi network on the VM. I am using virtual ethernet. Country and Region is correct. Name, Date of Birth, Email, Phone Number on my account are all correct. Password was very recently reset. I am only blocking TWO Apple domains using Nextdns.io I even whitelisted this domain because I wasn't sure if it was necessary because it's an SDK domain that was caught in one blocklist: Every single other domain is unblocked. Networking is set up via basic DHCP which should be no problem: Hackintool shows my en0 device to be built-in also: VM shows my phone number is verified:

Yeah doesn't seem to work for me at all. Messaging any number which I know has iMessage: Doesn't work Someone messaging my AppleID email: Doesn't work Me messaging myself at my AppleID email: Only thing that works I think this is beyond me... I also just deauthorized contact sharing everywhere I could. Deleted synced contacts and just tried via number. As soon as I finish putting the number in Apple does it's little circle loading thing and the number becomes red. Haven't been able to try anyone else's email because I don't know anyone's that has iMessage. Pretty sure it wouldn't work either. No idea why. Probably still banned on Apple's servers somehow.

Ok so you're saying that it's definitely possible for me to message a friend who has iMessage on their iPhone via their phone number? So I should be able to message their phone number and it should just work? Because that's what I've tried doing all along and their name is generally red. I've even tried sending everything via the Private API which in some cases is meant to work better but I still get the same problem. Messaging myself at my own email works fine now. Funny how I tried that just as you suggested it. Not sure if it worked before because I never checked that until I got off the phone with support. If I use BlueBubbles app and put in the phone number of someone I know has iMessage. It changes immediately to SMS Forwarding so it seems something still doesn't work. The iMessage tab on the app (next to SMS Forwarding) doesn't show anyone with iMessage.

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH well there you go Funny, because as you were writing that. I tried just messaging myself LOL at my own email and it worked. I sent a "test" and got a "test" back immediately. BUT. Does this mean I can't message eg. my sister at her phone number that she has registered with iMessage? If that's the case, I just wasted 2 weeks of my life trying to set this up LMAO. I need to be able to actually message people at their phone number (even if they have to message me at my email)... If I can only do that to their email addresses then this isn't much of a solution at all. It requires me I guess asking every one of my family members their email or something? When I search for my family members who I know have iMessage or even my work colleagues. Their names are always red in iMessage on the mac and I can't actually even press enter to send them anything. When I try messaging their phone number from BlueBubbles app I get "Error (22): The recipient isn't registered with iMessage" but they absolutely are with that number.

Thanks for trying to help still. I've tried both with the private API enabled and with it disabled. I can't send a message to anyone. It just keeps saying "Not delivered" and I'm not getting any error code either to debug. I even tried opening iMessage via the Terminal and it says: "isBlocked: 0", "isApproved: 1" and "isSpam: NO" so I assume my account is fine. The only thing is that my phone number isn't in the place where it says "You can be reached for messages at:" there is just my Apple ID email. I have added my phone number to my account though and I am actually even logged in with my phone number. Though only my email shows up as an option with the "Start new conversations from:". Checking Apple support docs it shows the only way to enable it with my phone number is through the iMessage app on an iPhone... I'm trying to text two different people who I know have iMessage. Both of them tried texting me and I just got a normal SMS. Both said that my bubble is only green, not blue. So I don't have iMessage according to them. I have also ticked that "Enable Messages in iCloud". Logged out and in a dozen times. Rebooted the VM. Done a full log out and in. I don't have any other "trusted device". Just this 'Mac'. It does show 2 previous Windows devices I have logged into to in System Preferences though. Everything is logging me in but I just cannot send anything. BlueBubbles app on my phone says everything is fine, whether I use the PrivateAPI or not. It says it's all connected fine. When I try to send a text via BlueBubbles app it just gives me the popup on Mac "Message not delivered". So it definitely feels like being blocked STILL on Apple's side... ------------------------------------- EDIT: Just got off 4th phonecall from Apple's side. 1. They immediately wanted screensharing and I just said sure why not. But then it turns out they couldn't connect to the device to do that for some reason lmao. 2. (It took about 30 mins and putting me on hold) but she confirmed my account had been reported as "Spam" and my iMessages were blocked but she said unblocked it. Though she said that they could only do this once and if its ever reported as spam again, they might never be able to unblock it. This seems kinda crazy... 3. She asked me to log into appleid.apple.com and there I could see everything was verified and trusted etc. However it does say: That my phone number is unavailable for iMessage and Facetime... She tried to blame that on my carrier but I know for a fact people on my carrier have no problem using iMessage. One of my colleagues who was helping me out today has the same carrier and it all works fine from his iPhone. So I told them I am pretty sure it's on their side. 4. She told me nothing else they could really do except say to wait 24 hours (or she jokingly told me buying an iPhone would solve my problem immediately). 5. The phone call took about 41 minutes (I am glad my work is paying for the call). All in all this has taken 4 calls, 2 weeks of waiting due to previous SMS issues and I don't seem to be any closer to this working... Might try a different VM or Mac version or something but likely I am gonna get my account just marked as spam again. I am starting to really lose interest in this whole thing. I only wanted this cr*p because a few of my extremely stubborn Apple-loving family members are too lazy to even download Whatsapp or something else... Everything from getting this Mac VM even running to trying to get this one thing set up is just nuts... Gotta hand it to Apple. They don't make it easy at all.

Ugh, I spoke too soon. For some reason FindMy isn't working at all and messages aren't being sent via iMessage... I won't even load the map. It's just totally black. Nothing seems to be being blocked. When I open it, it complains that because it cannot connect to WiFi, it can't get my location. I am connected via Ethernet... I don't have any WiFi networks displayed in the list. But the WiFi icon is constantly refreshing and flashing over and over. I'm connected via the following in Unraid: Do you have any idea @ghost82? I've allowed all permissions and done everything I can think. It's not letting me send anything directly via iMessage either. Just getting "Not Delivered" for everything.

Mate you are an absolute legend. I was sure that it was Nextdns.io blocking something with iMessage/Facetime as I was constantly getting kicked off over and over and over. Yet it seemed I had finally been able to log in after contacting Apple Support and going through a full 9 days worth of waiting to get the SMS code. But yeah that instant kick-out problem was my next issue and I could not find ANY information anywhere about it. SE searches were being totally fruitless and I figured I had some kind of URL that I was blocking in Nextdns or something, despite the fact that it looked like almost everything from Apple was being allowed except some really obvious blocks like metrics.apple and telemetary.apple etc. Looks like it's gonna be a THIRD phone call to support to try and get this final thing fixed and then hopefully after that I can FINALLY use Bluebubbles... Good luck and a huge thanks again to @avinyc

Hey! I had no idea this change happened but I am really grateful you grandfathered in legacy users. I have only pretty humble needs for my devic (electricity also costs the earth already in my country). My two questions (sorry if already answered). 1. Can I upgrade my basic to whatever the highest possible legacy license was, without losing updates? 2. Will there ever be different updates for both legacy license holders and these new license holders? That is, will I miss out on some kind of updates in the future as a legacy user? Thanks! Been with you guys for 6 years and you've probably saved me a small fortune in headache, painkillers and lower cortisol levels. I'd upgrade to the max legacy license just to help support you guys even though I don't need the device limit. Just because I also know that you gotta keep your own lights on.

Yeah so both my Apple accounts have gotten locked just trying to sign into this VM now. Apple definitely can detect these aren't "real" Mac machines. So if you don't need to use AppleID with them or login to Apple, then go ahead. Otherwise STEER CLEAR. If you do need to log in to AppleID you'll get your account flagged, locked and shadowbanned in every way possible. Here's my experience: 1. Try login on the device 2. Account immediately locked 3. Start unlock process (give catpcha, phone number, bank card and finally suggest new phone number) 4. "Verification codes can't be sent to this phone number at this time" (even if I try call me) 5. Try another machine (Windows) 6. Same process, exact same problem (because the account is now shadowbanned) 7. Try again with several different numbers, exact same error message 8. Try now on the Mac with another account 9. Other account is immediately locked lmao 10. You must use another Apple device to unlock either device (I don't have one) 11. Try unlocking without another Mac (same phone verification code problem) 12. Try to make a new Apple account on the VM 13. "This Mac has been used to create too many Apple accounts" (lol what?) 14. Call Apple support because it's now been a waste of a few hours 15. "Yeah we can't help, you need to use a fresh Mac or iphone to either unlock your account or register a new account" 16. Complain that this situation is bullsh*t "Yeah sorry, we can see you're trying to login but we can do nothing, that's just our policy" 17. Try telling them I am just an engineer with a new Mac trying to work "Sorry, your company should have some kind of IT support team that can help you" LMAO 18. Tried a few more times on different network (5G) and I have never used a VPN or anything sketchy just this Macinabox VM. They got me by the balls. Guy said he could see me logging in and it failing, but he didn't say more than this. So they know I am trying to log into a virtualized Mac, they refuse to unlock either account. The guy's got a stonewall pokerface on the phone and he knows I am trying to log in with 2 real accounts on a virtualized Mac and they've banned both of them rightly. So he's not going to budge even if he could do anything. Now I have two effed Apple accounts and he tells me my only hope is to either take my device in to an Apple Care store (lol it's a VM, nice bluff call) or buy an Apple device, which is entirely what I am trying to avoid. I gotta hand it to Apple, they're Grade-A scumbags. If they can't stop people making illegal VMs of their OS, they can definitely ban anyone who tries to log in to one and try to force them to get one of their garbo devices. All I wanted was to use BlueBubbles so I can talk to the stubborn/stupid family members of mine who have an iPhone. Maybe it's time to try the old Hackintosh method. If you've managed to log in to AppleID on this VM I would be shocked. You probably just won some kind of lottery.

Then I updated the VM by adding more CPU cores to make it faster, ran the helper script again and sadly nope... It just sits at the Apple logo forever now and the loading bar never comes up. So I guess I have to start all over again with the CPU cores in the beginning now. I probably should have just left it.. EDIT: I simply changed back to the first 2 CPU cores like in the beginning and ran the helper script again. It immediately started working again, no need to reinstall anything. So I'll just stick with those 2. I saw another video that showed I had to copy and paste the original .XML script again and then change the cores but I cbf'ed doing that. I am using a Ryzen CPU btw, so this works fine for AMD. Take that Apple!

Been having loads of problems trying to set up Big Sur. Here's my working, hope it helps someone else. 1. Downloaded Macinabox 2. Changed only the size to 50GB and image from raw to qcow2 (to fix another error) 3. Ran Macinabox, all good. 4. Ran script #2, and get the popup it's ready. 5. Ran script #1 and noticed this error: error: Failed to define domain from /mnt/user/appdata/macinabox/autoinstall/Macinabox BigSur.xml 6. Opened the script and replaced the name in the XML script to the VM name: "Macinabox BigSur" (without quotes). 7. Ran #1 again, looks good. Script says it's ready to go and there's nothing to do. 8. Ran the VM, all good (no complaint about qcow2 issue because I changed from raw in the Macinabox container settings) 9. VM starts up real quick no problem. 10. Disk utils and erase my 50G drive. 11. Back out and open the installer and select 50G drive. 12. Wait about 8 minutes for install (I have a very fast homelab). 13. Get back to the same screen in the beginning "Macos Base Disk", "Big Sur Installer", Recovery, Script one, Script two etc. 14. Try to run the first Disk option. Boots me into the Recovery program as there's something wrong with the disk. 15. Back out again, select option #2 (Installer) 16. Install bar again, takes another 15 minutes or so. 17. Boots me back to the same screen again. 18. Select install again, takes a bit more (3-4 minutes) time. 19. Boots me back out to the same main screen. 20. Now I see "bigsur" disk (which I named from the Disk Util erase step) 21. Boot into that. Finally it loads! So you can skip step 14. I also had to fix some weird error when starting the VM. error. Which I did by stopping my array and just going into Settings > Network > changed MTU to 9000 > Started the Array > All good. Was a bit confusing because I am actually using bond0 not br0.

Hi thanks, I changed the endpoint but it still won't work. Same error that it couldn't generate a token. Nevermind, I forgot that I changed my VPN password lmao, but didn't update it in the docker container. Oof. Works fine now.

Why is this suddenly happening? QBT has stopped working entirely. 2024-04-20 15:29:13,843 DEBG 'start-script' stdout output: -------------------- 2024-04-20 15:29:13,846 DEBG 'start-script' stdout output: [info] Configuring WireGuard... 2024-04-20 15:29:14,199 DEBG 'start-script' stdout output: [warn] Unable to successfully download PIA json to generate token for wireguard from URL 'https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/gtoken/generateToken' [info] 12 retries left [info] Retrying in 10 secs... 2024-04-20 15:29:24,477 DEBG 'start-script' stdout output: [warn] Unable to successfully download PIA json to generate token for wireguard from URL 'https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/gtoken/generateToken' [info] 11 retries left [info] Retrying in 10 secs... 2024-04-20 15:29:34,662 DEBG 'start-script' stdout output: [warn] Unable to successfully download PIA json to generate token for wireguard from URL 'https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/gtoken/generateToken' [info] 10 retries left [info] Retrying in 10 secs... 2024-04-20 15:29:45,048 DEBG 'start-script' stdout output: [warn] Unable to successfully download PIA json to generate token for wireguard from URL 'https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/gtoken/generateToken' [info] 9 retries left [info] Retrying in 10 secs... 2024-04-20 15:29:55,302 DEBG 'start-script' stdout output: [warn] Unable to successfully download PIA json to generate token for wireguard from URL 'https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/gtoken/generateToken' [info] 8 retries left [info] Retrying in 10 secs...

It seems my plugin doesn't have access to write in this DIR? Support ID: 62af874b-1d6a-4f98-8040-4532565b21cb Any idea why? What am I supposed to do in this situation, it can't back anything up. Can I also avoid any "Null mapping" errors too? I have them eg. with the VSCODE container.

Nevermind it works. I just needed to shut off the container long enough for Cloudflare to wipe everything. I was getting served a cached version.

Wow super fast reply. Thanks! Do you have any idea why SearXNG is not respecting my settings.yml? I have changed a few settings in the /appdata/searxng/settings.yml file and it doesn't seem to respect these as the defaults at all. I know that it used to but now it doesn't seem to. I have a mostly default template setup: The settings file doesn't seem to have any syntax errors or anything either. Mainly I wanted to turn on safesearch etc. and set centred results and so on. Yet it seems to just ignore these. I've also cleared cookies, tried on incognito and of course restarted the container a few times. Any ideas?

The issue that describes the differences between SearX and SearXNG has been deleted from Github: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/46 Could you please update the description to remove this dead link?

NETBIOS was on as it is by default. Could you please add to the Plugin info page (unless I missed it) that this needs to be OFF. To help save other people the major headache I've had to deal with. Thanks <3

Sorry for triple posting but I just noticed that in this case tailscale1 seems to be given an IPv6 address but no IPv4 address. I am obviously trying to connect via "\\IPv4\sharename" and I don't even have IPv6 enabled on my router. I'm not at home and can't shut down docker (without losing access) but I see in network it says IPv4 + IPv6. I'll change it to IPv4 only and report back, I hope it is as simple as that, otherwise I still need help. EDIT: I disabled IPv6 and chose only IPv4 and it's still listing an IPv6 route in the table at the bottom image... So I still need help. Can someone also please confirm if we need to do this really ugly 'go' fix too?

Here's some more screenshots of the setup. Am I missing some settings or something somewhere?

I cannot for the life of me get Tailscale to give me access to my Samba share outside of my network. 1. I have Tailscale installed on both my laptop and my Unraid server. 2. I have normal samba shares on my Unraid 3. I have set these to Export > Yes, with a username and password 4. When trying to map the network drive, using IP address or DNS I am always getting the below error 5. I have not been able to make this work via the Tailscale Docker app or now using the Tailscale Unraid Plugin The error I get is either the below one or "Windows requires a share to publish to". It has never worked even once. Can someone please help me get this working?

How am I supposed to know what order it should be in to get the green icon? It's annoying. I tried reordering just one container and nothing stops it from being red. There's not clear enough explanation what this feature even does and where I am supposed to be able to compare it to the real Unraid order so I know they are the same. This just seems like a pointless annoyance at this stage.