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snailer said:

Looks like I'm gonna have to upgrade my Mac Pro 5,1 graphics card. I'm running a Radeon HD 7950 3GB. Does anybody know what cards support Metal on my machine?

None. We’re stuck. Even if you happened to buy a third party GPU that supports Metal, you still can’t use it. You can’t install install Mojave with the card installed because the graphics drivers will be wiped upon update. To install new graphics drivers, you would have to use a different graphics card to see the UI, but none of the ones that DO work with Mojave can be used in a Mac Pro.

50 billion dollar fine. Now. Why? For human rights violations. Let’s try to catalog the meaningful ones.

The United Nations. Putting aside how much of an enemy to humanity itself the United Nations is, it does have some interesting documentation. One of these documents recognizes (which generally means fuck all for a government in practice, but hey) the human right to privacy.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

The United States. The Constitution implicitly grants a right to privacy in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th amendments. “BUT THAT’S ONLY THE GOVERNMENT!” the leftists will scream. Ah, but which multinational corporation receives FUNDING FROM MULTIPLE GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD? I wonder…

India. The Indian constitution implicitly grants the right to privacy under Article 21, and affirmed in Kharak Singh v. State of U.P.[lxxi]

It held that “an unauthorized intrusion into a person’s home and the disturbance caused to him thereby, is as it were the violation of a common law right of a man -an ultimate essential of ordered liberty, if not of the very concept of civilization”

China. LOL, just wanted to have a laugh today.

EU. Do you guys even recognize the general right to privacy? I see an act for a “digital right to privacy” including “anonymization on request” (like, the deletion of stuff from a website), but you clearly don’t honor that. Would I have to look at each constituent country’s own laws to see if they include a general right to privacy? 

shell3000 said:

Sorry, not helpful, as long as there is no list of "Metal-capable graphics cards" ...

There is. AMD chips since the R9 family and nVidia chips since the 700 family support Metal. Theoretically.

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Mac OS will refuse to run on any Mac built more than six years ago.

2009 Mac Pro here. 10.13 runs like a dream. There was no excuse for Apple to cut support. I’m hearing that 10.14 will also run perfectly well with my updated graphics card, after a bit of a twist in installing it. That will likely be it, though. So 10 years of software updates. And that’s just for my model. 

“Criminals live in houses, and you live in houses, so we need a master key that can unlock every house! Don’t worry, we’ll only use it on the criminals.” – Government on digital privacy

darren mccoy said:

Well, that's every Google app removed from my phone. Now to decide if I can live with Bing as my search engine.

You can’t. It refuses to search for strings of text. Also, Microsoft engineers have admitted to using Google to search Microsoft’s own internal knowledge database because Bing can’t do it.

Try Searx.me

gatorguy said:
EDIT... and then this story appears on my feed. Apps are using the way you tap your screen, the speed you type, the angle you hold your phone, or the swipes you typically use to better identify who is who, even recognizing changes in health??

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/business/behavioral-biometrics-banks-security.html

Oh, that’s old hat. I had a client many years back who couldn’t bank on his iPad because the bank’s website required Flash (!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Ignoring how odd that was, I installed one of those “flash-supporting” browsers and got the login to show up, but he still couldn’t log in because the site RECORDED THE SPEED AT WHICH HE TYPED IN HIS USERNAME AND PASSWORD and rejected his input. I hope to hell that his bank has fixed that shit by now, but who knows.

dysamoria said:

Francules is talking about bigotry; the word used was "hate".

And it’s a statement so beneath contempt that it didn’t warrant recognition. It’s also, incidentally, a strawman itself.

People do demonstrate considerable hatred toward vegans in certain places.

The evidences, here, being what?

They seem to view mocking vegans as a safe type of bigotry in which to participate. It's almost like some kind of pressure release valve for the other bigotry they've been suppressing, in order to present themselves as progressive and welcoming to others.

They have to have an outlet somewhere; they’re psychologically prevented from telling the truth anywhere else, after all.

...then they'll throw myths about human biology/diet that aren't held up by actual science.

The non-vegans do this? Hmm.

It's still bigotry. Refusing to accept that bigotry exists is part of the reason that it continues.

Learning what bigotry actually is would help a huge portion of the population get over it. I agree.

Why not just repurpose the Mac Pro cylinder to become the new Mac Mini? Get some actual use out of the case and thermal design by giving “low-end” users some upgradability! Without a Xeon and workstation GPU, there’s probably room for a standard 2.5” SSD (or two), as well as the 4 RAM slots.

EDIT: There’s now a PC that steals the Mac Pro design idea, but it’s big enough for full size PCIe cards. The Mac Mini would be PERFECT for taking up the Mac Pro cylinder design!

sumergo said:

tallest skil said:

sumergo said:

...what you really need to do is stop whining - there are people who would love to have your "problems".

And I wish that I could be… Richard Cory.

OK TS.  Stop being so elliptic.  Your Richard Cory quote means . . . ?

They say that Richard Cory owns one-half of this whole town
With political connections to spread his wealth around.
Born into society, a banker's only child
He had everything a man could want, power, grace and style.
But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be
Oh, I wish that I could be
Oh, I wish that I could be Richard Cory.
The papers print his pictures almost everywhere he goes
Richard Cory at the opera, Richard Cory at a show.
And the rumours of his parties and the orgies on his yacht
Oh, he surely must be happy with everything he's got.
But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be
Oh, I wish that I could be
Oh, I wish that I could be Richard Cory.
He freely gave to charity, he had the common touch
And they were grateful for his patronage and they thanked him very much.
So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read:
"Richard Cory went home last night and put a bullet through his head."
But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be
Oh, I wish that I could be
Oh, I wish that I could be Richard Cory.

0VERL0RD said:

Neither do they like being implicated in Class action lawsuits through fault of their manufacturing partners http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/nvidia-reaches-settlement-in-class-action-suit-affecting-apple-dell-hp-laptops.521913/

We should have gotten new machines for that fuck-up, by the way.

The federal government has no power to create laws on privacy. The US Constitution implicitly protects the right to privacy, as has been affirmed by several SCOTUS rulings. The federal government has absolutely no power to violate said privacy in the first place, so any “law” on it will be either unconstitutional or just general overreach.