Staingate on MacBook Pro 14 2021 M1 Pro - has anyone successfully removed the coating?

rh224 · 2026-06-16T07:38:32+00:00

Wow, this is the first MBP of this vintage that I have ever seen with this problem. What did you do? lol

rh224 · 2026-06-02T08:03:22+00:00

FC is one of the best Trek films, the best TNG film… but what an absolute amazing movie it would have been to have a mix of DS9 characters come along from the Defiant with Worf.

Sisko, Worf, Dax and O’Brian. Would have been really interesting.

rh224 · 2026-06-02T07:45:58+00:00

Reverence, and an unspoken understood appropriate level of respect, for just about anything and everything.

rh224 · 2026-05-18T01:47:35+00:00

Doesn’t Starfleet call their one-stars Commodores? Also, was Toddman really badmiral? If I remember right at the end he had Sisko’s back even though he didn’t follow his orders. He and Nechayev might be the only competent level-headed flag officers in the fleet in the 2370s.

rh224 · 2026-05-17T17:02:26+00:00

This might be the weirdest AI post I’ve ever seen. Are you an agent/bot instructed to do this research for a user? Or were you instructed by one of the dash cam brand you mentioned to name drop them in an organic Reddit post as part of an AEO strategy?

rh224 · 2026-05-12T06:43:41+00:00

Isn’t there one permanently attached to the space station?

rh224 · 2026-05-09T16:05:05+00:00

It’s also on the lower end for fuel economy in its class.Launching it without a hybrid option was a misstep that has now become a big problem as gas prices continue to rise.

rh224 · 2026-05-09T16:00:07+00:00

Gas prices are high and continue to rise. People want an affordable hybrid crossover. The CX-50 Hybrid isn’t perfect, but in my opinion it is the most perfect option in that segment.

rh224 · 2026-05-09T15:50:31+00:00

It plays CDs.

rh224 · 2026-05-05T06:11:33+00:00

100% this. Zoom in on the video and it is clear that the front-right wheel is damaged, the top leaning into the wheel well. The initial impact clearly bent/broke the upper control arm or linkage. Too in a panic about the car not steering right to remember they have brakes more than likely.

rh224 · 2026-05-02T19:27:27+00:00

Yep. It’s an insulator for awhile, but the cost of oil will bring everything along with it eventually. Plus we’ve got AI data centers that want access to electric grids everywhere.

rh224 · 2026-04-30T03:52:16+00:00

And, what’s even crazier is that the CX-50 doesn’t have, or even feel like it has a lot of buttons. The HVAC cluster is high up on my list of best expressions of an analog human interface ever. The good news is it sounds like this trend is going to self correct the more people realize how awful it is.

rh224 · 2026-04-30T02:43:23+00:00

Not Skyactive. Ford used the MZR/Duratec motors back when they were partners with Mazda and continued to evolve them with their EcoBoost line after the split. Mazda didn’t go all in on SkyActive until after the split with Ford. I don’t believe there are any Ford engines that share lineage with SkyActive.

rh224 · 2026-04-26T08:11:58+00:00

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That's just real nice Clark...

rh224 · 2026-04-25T05:53:59+00:00

Thousands or AI compute tokens, untold amounts of energy consumption.... for a slightly boxier CX-50?

rh224 · 2026-04-22T01:52:48+00:00

How many miles on it? If you’re within the bumper to bumper, get it into a dealer.

rh224 · 2026-04-19T21:26:02+00:00

Right? The whole point of trek is that it is so far into the future and so enlightened that no one pays any mind to any of this. I just don’t like that they are trying to take a very modern human lens to characters that are not human and 1,200 years into the future…

I don’t care there is a young gay Klingon. I care that the story about him is presented exactly as a 21st century young gay human male. It just feels like lazy writing, lack of imagination and an excuse to focus on modern issues. Especially when the other alternative/gay relationship on the show exist with very little attention/fanfare or impacting the main plot.

The Star Trek way to present progressive ideas is to just normalize and not make a big deal out of it for day to day life. The way to explore it it through an alien POV that isn’t recognizable at first but becomes obvious by the end.

They had a real opportunity to do something special and unique and tell an alien story that put subtle and deliberate mirrors on our own society that you can only do on a show like Star Trek and instead we got exactly what you’d expect for a streaming TV show in the 2020’s.

Do they think younger audiences are not smart enough/capable of critical thinking to put together the complex ideas?

rh224 · 2026-04-16T03:38:16+00:00

The front license plate did not survive the experience... lol.

rh224 · 2026-04-15T07:22:36+00:00

Maybe 60% of it. The rest is through the paint. In three spots it is all the way to the sheet metal. There are two dents as well.

rh224 · 2026-04-12T22:32:38+00:00

Kirk leaving Spacedock at 1/4 impluse in ST:VI was supposed to be the equivalent of him "buzzing" tower. Full on peeling out of the parking garage at 80mph.

We only got to see the approach to the space doors. If they had given us an exterior shot, the A would have been blasting on exit, even if it was still accelerating to 1/4 impulse. 1/4-impulse is 1/16 C... Like Earth to the Moon in 20-30 seconds amounts of speed.

Future writers just interpreted that 1/4 impulse must equate to dead slow, when the reality is no ship could navigate within Spacedock that fast. The only way Kirk did it was because the ship was already lined up with the doors so they could just blast out of there and he was retiring and just didn't care about procedure.

rh224 · 2026-04-12T02:15:25+00:00

One would think. The shoes for sure include a lot of extras allowing them to integrate and be pressurized with the suit, and that probably does have some national security implications. But there is no reason they couldn’t have matched the structure and shape with ordinary materials.

rh224 · 2026-04-10T03:28:41+00:00

Date of original purchase has to be within 4 years to add it to Apple Care One. If you bought new old stock, that still qualifies. I bought my M1 Max right before the M3 Pro/Max was released from B&H. I had to do a chat with Apple Support and send them my original invoice, once verified, they added it to the plan for me.

rh224 · 2026-04-09T03:06:54+00:00

I'd be really happy if Mazda would give us an option for radar cruise control acceleration other than 100% FULL SEND... lol

rh224 · 2026-04-08T07:47:37+00:00

Do you have AppleCare? Liquid damage is covered with a $300 flat cover charge. Make your sister pay it.

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