mknelson

And if production does move to the US there won't be Tariffs to collect so income taxes will still be a thing.

And the factories will be automated so very few skilled jobs needed…

StrangeDays said:

oh hell no. no lame. I like mine but will not be locked into their brand storage, no technical reason for this 

Read the restrictions list - most of the features dropped for unsupported (non-branded or non-supported) drives aren't things most people use.

The supported drive list tends to be pretty extensive. Best not to panic until the new models drop and we can see that list.

realjustinlong said:

Now that the tariffs are in place and are clamping down on immigration I am sure we should see companies starting production in the US in the coming days if not hours. /s

I saw your /s…

The US is only 4.22% of the world's population, Building production capacity and training people in the US would take decades. Most companies will try to weather the Trump term and hope things return to normal.

The rest of the world will likely look at the 95.78% of the world's population and find our own way.

vztrv1 said:

I wonder how an eSIM would fare in these circumstances…

You need to go over to Ars Technica (about 4 years back) with that "This is how I would have gotten away with it" 7 proxies style advice.

"The latest M3 Ultra Mac Studio is a great, if extremely expensive, way to run massive LLMs locally. But for the hobbyist dabbling in the subject, tinkering with projects like the PowerBook G4 can still be rewarding."

Meanwhile, over at The Cult of Mac

"The new Mac Studio with an M3 Ultra chip, which supports up to 512 GB of unified memory, is the easiest and cheapest way to run powerful, cutting-edge LLMs on your own hardware."
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/mac-studio-ai-performance