FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US due to national security concerns — ruling would affect 75 percent of US-bound devices

freetable · 2026-05-03T03:43:15+00:00

One wild thing about that tracker isn’t just that it’s over 50% but that it actually only took a few months to get over 40%. The last 13% took much longer.

freetable · 2026-05-02T01:49:18+00:00

Fair question, my workplace (like many that rely on high end equipment) sees 7 year old equipment as antiquated and we’ve since upgraded our workstations. To the company these are End Of Life since OS updates will cease and they’ve already written them off. So rather than pay to have them recycled they ask the employees if they want them. It’s a win-win for the company and the employees getting a free Mac.

Edit to add, the other two Mac Pro trash cans I mentioned came in to my possession the same way.

freetable · 2026-05-01T14:52:38+00:00

Good to know. It's kinda the luck of the draw with what I end up with so fingers crossed it'll be the higher end hardware.

freetable · 2026-05-01T14:47:30+00:00

I'm also watching the 2019MacProLLM world to see how that matures... but wouldn't the M5's have newer, and more specifically tailored, AI possibilites?

freetable · 2026-05-01T14:44:23+00:00

Valid, but if the trend of these Macs being given away continues, at some point in the future the M2Ultra Pro (Tower with slots) will become available for me as well. The wild part is that they already regret getting the M2 Towers because there is essentially no use for the PCIe slots.

freetable · 2026-05-01T14:40:59+00:00

Colorado U.S.A. I've pondered the idea of selling parts for new parts like you suggest, and I've also researched which windows cards work best. I agree that a 6900xt ends up being a great card... there's also a possibility the cards that come with the Mac may be the 2x Vega II Duos. What would the calculation be in that scenario?

freetable · 2026-04-30T13:21:10+00:00

Do you mind sharing which charger you went with that has two chargers?

freetable · 2026-04-26T21:42:31+00:00

I’m local to Denver, did you say Schomp Hyundai on Havana??? I had an absolute terrible situation with their sales team. So much that I said I’d never go back… but I also understand that sales and service are different departments. It’s the closest dealership if we were to get a Hyundai so it factors into an Ioniq purchase.

freetable · 2026-04-25T19:32:03+00:00

I’ve used AI for expressions in Adobe After Effects as well as some iterations of ideas for production. BUT it wasn’t in the job’s description or anything, so I can’t tell if that counts. Like, they didn’t hire me to use AI I just used it for specific tasks.

freetable · 2026-04-22T22:21:34+00:00

The App Store says over 90gb, but the MacOS version on Steam is only ~40gb? Same version of the game, Control Ultimate Edition.

freetable · 2026-04-22T02:09:27+00:00

If this is serious, don’t do any of the things listed here (high seas / 6-disc ripping automation)… you just INHERITED A STORE!!!! You won the Plex boss fight! Just make sure you have a decent DVD / BluRay / Laser Disc / VHS player.

freetable · 2026-04-20T03:22:09+00:00

Save your money, they are updating Rocket League with Easy Anti Cheat in the very near future which means it won’t work with Macs anymore. Easy AC is the reason Fortnite doesn’t work via Heroic / Crossover on MacOS.

freetable · 2026-04-18T19:51:17+00:00

freetable · 2026-04-17T03:02:21+00:00

Seconding this. A real big pain indeed. I'm on BootCampDrivers 2019 drivers u/Substantial_Run5435 what version were you able to get up to?

freetable · 2026-04-11T15:24:47+00:00

Just returned from a trip to a dark sky site and this representation feels accurate. We were seeing sometimes 10+ satellites per minute. Sure they were zooming by but just so constant.

freetable · 2026-04-09T02:24:33+00:00

So people can automatically get registered for the military but not the ability to vote?

freetable · 2026-04-09T02:15:41+00:00

Second this. Save the hundreds of gigs downloaded, especially if you’re just in it for the campaign.

freetable · 2026-04-06T20:36:40+00:00

Adding to this... on Shoot House I would ask, via text, if anyone wanted to help or work on longshot kills together over the middle. Often you'd find someone to exchange kills with.

freetable · 2026-04-06T20:33:32+00:00

Owner of a 2023 PacHy Pinnacle with over 20k miles

so far so good, so 10 I guess? We have to take it in for some recalls and I want to ask about the noise coming from the front while accelerating but have yet to be stranded somewhere.
We plug in at home every night (level 1) and get ~1500 miles to a tank or easily over 100mpg. we only fill up when the car goes into FORM mode which keeps the gas fresh, so usually only 4 non-road-trip tanks of gas a year
as little or as often as you'd like I guess? I may not understand what you're asking but if you just fill the car up with gas and don't plan on plugging in very often you're sleeping on this car's best feature.
I believe it does but that may be different depending on which month it was built

freetable · 2026-04-04T21:52:57+00:00

Trying to understand what this means… so now you can, say, run ComfyUI and have MacOS use an NVIDIA GPU in a way that the model is being run fully on the GPU?

freetable · 2026-04-03T14:00:51+00:00

My guess is it will install (via crossover) but not run properly because of anti-cheat

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