u/down_with_cats

Went to the pump today, scanned my Costco card, and it immediately bypassed the card payment. It then let me pump gas and cut off at $3. The receipt shows the sale was digital. I don't have a Costco credit card, so nothing is setup as digital payment in the app.

I went through the process again and it asked me to tap and that transaction went through fine showing it was charged to VISA credit.

The charge isn’t on my card, so who paid for the gas? The service desk had no clue. Both receipts show up in my app.

I tried asking on the other subreddit and had to re-word my post a dozen times and it still got removed. I hope this one allows a question like this.

I’ve been playing around with Draw Things for a couple months and decided to try video generation. With images, I was able to set the resolution pretty low and the preview would appear quickly and I could hit stop and fix the prompt and retry until it looked right. Then I would set the resolution higher and get my desired image.

With LTX 2.3, even if I set the frame gen low and resolution low, it takes 15+ minutes to fully generate the video with the recommended settings from the app. I’m not sure what else to change but it’s taking me hours of tweaking my prompts to get the right output. Another issue is I keep making mistakes with the audio track and don’t know it until the video is done generating.

Is there any way to set Draw Things up so it can only generate audio and when I get the audio perfect I can add the video? Also what’s the best way to test out prompts the quickest way possible? I don’t mind if the final product takes hours to gen but it’s so tedious making a tiny change to the prompt and then waiting so long if the change was positive or negative.

We're mostly a Microsoft shop so it's made sense to deploy Windows laptops to our end users. We image them with SCCM (sometimes drop ship using Autopilot) and they're hybrid joined giving users a pretty good experience when accessing M365 resources.

However, our EliteBook 860 pricing has gone from $1100 per unit last year to $2200 per unit due to "AI Constraints". We've built new SKUs that cut every cost possible (no touchscreen, value SSD, no fingerprint sensor, etc.) and even went as far as to build SKUs using soldered on CPU/RAM as we were told that would reduce cost. It's still above $2k for a basic laptop (U5/32GB/256GB).

We're now being told to figure out the cost to switch to deploying MacBook Neos and MacBook Airs because of how much cheaper they are. If we can save $1200-$1600 per laptop then it's likely worth the cost to train everyone on how to use and support MacOS.

My biggest concern is imaging them. We have a very small MacOS footprint now (30-40 devices) and each one was a pain to get setup for the end user. We primarily use Intune which has "user affinity" so we have to reset the end user's password, login as them to download the management certificates, and then spend several hours manually configuring it. I've automated a lot with Intune, but there's a lot of manual effort to domain join, allow the AnyConnect VPN profiles, allow TeamViewer screen recording, etc. We own Tanium but I don't really see a ZTE option with them and it looks like we may need to purchase licenses for a product like Jamf.

Has anyone else been given a directive like this? If so, can you offer any advice?

We deploy around 500 laptops per year, so I understand the upfront hardware cost savings but worry there will be a lot of "soft costs" that might end up costing us more in the long run.