My mother gets motability and has an ev so where does this fit in between the standard model where middle classes buy ev vehicles and poor people buy used ice vehicles
Motability is a leasing scheme, and for complicated reasons the manufacturers (especially Stellantis) are offering cheap lease deals.
In the case of Stellantis I believe this is driven by "compliance" requirements - the need to sell a certain percentage of EVs to avoid being fined by the EU. So they're not especially great EVs, but once they go to the lease firm they're counted as "sold". Someone may take a loss on the depreciation later, but not the driver.
A special consideration for Motability is that PIP recipients aren't allowed to save up for anything, so whatever vehicle they have has to be on finance.
> PIP recipients aren't allowed to save up for anything
That's incorrect.
Some, not all, PIP recipients are also in receipt of means-tested benefits, such as Universal Credit for example, which has a £6k capital disregard, and a reduction of benefits between £6k and £16k, and no entitlement over £16k. (Also I'm sure there are PIP recipients who work and receive no other benefits)
There surely are PIP recipients who would end up with savings of over £6k if they did not spend their PIP on anything else, and Motability is a legitimate way to spend it in the eyes of the DWP.
I once bought an apple silicon macbook pro logic board to use with a kvm. It was a fun adventure. Things to notice:
-laptop lid closed/open sensor.
-no lid screen at first boot was a pain to fix to external monitor.
-logic board only on first boot requires macbook pro trackpad and keyboard(case), connecting external keyboard and mouse doesn't work at login screen due to security.
Once up and running though it is an excellent, cheap compiling/local llm machine i use over ssh from another mac
I just had this nightmare yesterday. Water damaged MBP so just the power button worked.
You can use any keyboard during recovery mode. But not connect BT devices (technically possible via some secret screen but it was stuck on a loading loop and needed a restart every time I tried) and I didn't have a wired mouse lol. So I had to voice mode + keybindings through a reinstall of MacOS which sounds easy but there were like 5 issues with focusing screens so regular tab didn't work and needed like cmd shift f4 and other mega random key bindings (thanks to AI this was easy to figure out though with enough trial and error). Had to restart it after an install thinking the keyboard would still work, but nope after login screen it wouldn't let me lol.
Pro tip — a magic keyboard with usb-c to lightning cable DOES NOT count as an accessory somehow. So you can use that.
Magic keyboard and track pad or mouse did not work for me with logic board first boot, only a MacBook case with track pad and keyboard worked. Connecting any peripheral over usb on a logic board at login screen will not function due to macos external connected device trust acceptance popup only appears after login.
I also thought so but in my case the keyboard worked somehow. And I had not previously trusted it. Perhaps there was something else I did, but it worked on it's first plug in.
running this on an m1 max 64gb, it produces some really nice clips with music and audio, stitching the clips together after makes a nice short story generated entirely using a local ai system. It takes quite a while to generate each clip though, But at least it is working. I would like to know a few things:
-Optimal settings/configs examples for h3.c to help speed things up
-Optimal recommended generation settings for each mac product, i am sure it is easy to do
-Prompt generator assistant
Great work from the github author. The more i use it the more i realise i don't need a gui to generate video, just terminal.
My setup:
Macbook #1 as a client
Macbook #2 as server
-use macbook #1 terminal + ssh
-run mactop in terminal tab to monitor Macbook #2's hardware during ai video generation
-run h3.c on Macbook #2 via ssh session
-transfer the output video file from macbook #2 to macbook #1 using terminal scp
-view the video
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