To be fair, commercial long-life nickel-iron batteries are already being sold for grid storage. The main reason they aren’t used more widely is they cost more up front.

That’s ok, because they still cost less than alternatives over the full life span of the battery.

The risk is that the higher purchase cost required will likely be wasted as new battery tech surpasses it long before its life is over.

So for now, it’s all about weighing opportunity cost, tech lock-in, and early obsolescence

Yes, resource availability isn’t the issue, and “just invest more” has some massive hurdles:

• China has over 25,000 patents in the field of rare earths
• China doesn’t have the strict environmental-protection regulations like much of the rest of the world. It keeps the price very low, but at great cost to its environment from toxic run-off and the like
• Complex, expensive solvent extraction processes require extensive experience that China is well ahead of the rest of the world on
• China has a highly integrated supply chain from mining to finished product manufacturing

All these mean any processing outside of China is going to be incredibly expensive and competitively unprofitable. It’s not impossible to do, and removing dependence from China is probably worth it, but it’s going to take a lot of capital and time to achieve and sustain.

The sustained dose from a class 1 lidar is well below critical safety levels. You’re no more likely to get cancer from car lidar than you are from regular use of household LED lights. But sure, let’s just add lidar to the long list of things that people will irrationally scaremonger about.

Yep, the DARPA Grand Challenge of 2004 spurred the modern self-driving car era. But attempts at self driving cars were made as early as the 70s - earlier, depending on how you define autonomous driving. And Waymo has had driveless cars on roads since 2017.

A lot of farms still went under, but mostly small ones.

Worse was that farmer-suicide rates rose significantly. Imagine having a tarrif policy that knowingly killed many people first time round, so the second time you dial it up to 10.

It was sad seeing farmers, who lost farms that had been in their family for generations, on the news saying they’d still vote for Trump.

It was mostly the big corp farms that benefited in the end. Many smaller farms that had been family-owned for generations weren’t so lucky.

Worse, farmer mental health declined and suicides increased.

Trump: Hey my policies killed lots of people during my first term. I’ll do that again, only this time on a massive scale!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/08/30/amid-trump-tariffs-farm-bankruptcies-and-suicides-rise/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_farmer_bailouts

Man, did you even read the originally posted article? Did you understand it? Do you even know what sort of sideloading everyone is talking about here? Because it’s sure as hell is not app development deployment. Google isn’t going to ban that! And users aren’t going to fire up Xcode, unpack an app IPA binary, modify the bundle configuration, and sign it using their ID so it’ll run on their phone for just seven days. That takes developer-level skill which you said wasn’t necessary. Or they could instead use one of the tools I listed, but you didn’t even think they were real.

And none of the pages you linked to refer to “sideloading” except to say people can do it in the EU. Again, proving my point.

Plus I’ve already covered your whole argument here in my last comment. Did you read this link? If you did, you would have realized your argument was irrelevant and pointless.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/for-people-living-outside-the-ycCBdGnMTbmpH1.Triir6Q

Also, you should probably learn what Ad Homenim is…

It appears you don’t understand what an ad homenim is, because I laid it out for you. When you say someone is making something up or something isn’t real, rather than actually addressing the merits of their arguments, that’s text book ad hominem.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-accusing-someone-of-making-7lw2w1xhQJyAtXtYuR3HTQ

Jailbreaking is not within Apples rules (the hint is in the name)

I never said it was. In fact, my first comment stated “…there are computer programs…,” and I’ve mentioned “tools” generally. Why would those phrases not include jail breaking programs and tools?

And of course it’s not allowed by Apple. That was my point. If you live outside the EU and you want to sideload apps generally as a user, you have to use a tool like those I listed, which obviously includes the option of jail breaking.

So you’re just reinforcing my point for me, like you’ve done multiple times already.

Yet again, you ignored nearly all of my key points, you added more misinformation and vagueness, you don’t appear to understand what it is we’re actually talking about, and you don’t understand the skill level or tools required for what you’re suggesting. So like I’ve mentioned, this could be a great learning experience for you with a bit of self-respect, but instead you prefer to keep highlighting your ignorance and misunderstanding. You might be fine with that despite the obvious downsides, in which case more power to you.

New shares issued at a discount price. So a bit of a double punch for the existing share holders.

Still, you’re highlighting of the price going up is a good point, and maybe all my food-for-thought ramblings mean nothing. I guess we’ll see.

Apple allows you to sideload your apps, regardless of where you are in the world.

No, Apple doesn’t generally allow you to sideload apps outside of the EU.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/does-apple-officially-allow-si-TH8GECqoR4CqgzWD8uH6TQ (Note that Perplexity cites sources)

Apple officially allows sideloading of apps on iPhones only for users based in the European Union due to the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) which mandates this starting in 2024. For users outside the EU, Apple does not officially allow sideloading.

If Apple officially allows sideloading outside of the EU, please show us the specific pages where Apple states you can sideload any app and the steps to do it? If you’re right, I’ll happily spin on a dime and support you and admit my mea culpa. I have no horse in this race, and I’ll be happy to learn something new. People think admitting they’re wrong is a weakness, when it’s actually a strength.

I said Apple allows sideloading, you tried to correct me…

I didn’t try to correct you because nothing you wrote was wrong. All I did was try to add information to clarify to other readers what “somewhat” actually means so they have an idea what they might be getting into if they wanted to do it. You know, provide simple helpful extra information, so people don’t waste their time trying to find a feature they don’t have if they live outside the EU for example. You even agreed that there are limitations, and that people would have to fork out money to overcome some of them.

But if someone correcting you seems to upset to the point where you come out swinging a baseball bat over a trivial matter, maybe the internet isn’t the place for you just now.

… then changed your argument when you realized you were wrong

I have no idea what you’re referring to here. So being vague again weakens your argument.

Your “tools” that bypass the limitations set by apple wouldn’t even be relevant if they were real…

You seem to be stuck on this idea of Apple setting limitations. I said from the start there were limitations.

The tools are very real:

• https://www.perplexity.ai/search/for-people-living-outside-the-ycCBdGnMTbmpH1.Triir6Q
• Jail breaking tools
• Sideloadly
• AltStore
• SideStore
• Etc.

Even your links prove that you’re wrong about sideloading…

Again, you didn’t cite anything specific here in what I linked to. The definitions clearly supported that I wasn’t making anything up as you claimed. And all you did was repeat your claim which I’ve already addressed. You didn’t respond to my actual counterpoint or add any additional information. So again, this was vague and pointless.

Ok, this is getting ridiculous. You keep stating incorrect information, you’re relying on cherry picking, you’ve stooped to using yet another ad hominin weakening you argument, and you’re getting repetitive and vaguer with each new comment.

I’ve posted plenty of links to show the reality and limitations I originally mentioned, so people can read them and make up there own minds.

Good point. But would the share price otherwise have been higher without the government discounted purchase? Share dilution, law of supply and demand, etc are all decent arguments the shareholders could make.

And there’s now increased risk that the purchase could cause future strategic and market challenges, especially internationally.

Plus it’s not just a share price issue. For example, the fact that shareholders have had their voting power diluted is arguably a concern.

Youre not getting it. The developers of the tools can and do impose their own additional limitations. They’re still limitations of the programs which is what we were taking about.

And it doesn’t matter what limitations Apple imposes in its walled garden, their phones can still be jail broken and side loaded in the more traditional way.

The concept of sideloading is a general term that applies to multiple platforms, not something Apple owns or gets to dictate. No one is making up anything here.

https://www.twingate.com/blog/glossary/side-loading

Sideloading is the process of installing applications on a device from sources other than the official app stores.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sideload

the practice of putting software on a computer or mobile phone, without using the official way of buying the software

https://zimperium.com/glossary/sideloading

Sideloading is the practice of installing mobile apps on a device that are not from the official app stores

Etc.

If your argument requires cherry picking, ignoring key points, and baseless ad homenims, it’s not a good point.

The limitations depend on which program you’re using - there’s more than one - which is why I only gave a simple example. And if you have to pay for a function that is otherwise free to many others, that’s a limitation.

Side loading is installing an app from anywhere but the official store. So by definition “third party” is side loading. Whether it’s another store or authorised is irrelevant.

somewhat

Yes. Only in the EU and only since 2024 when Apple was forced to do it by new laws. It’s reasonable to assume Google would be subject to the same laws.

If you live outside if the EU, it’s “no sideload for you!” There are computer programs that can do sideloading to iPhones, but they have limitations, like having to refresh the sideloaded apps every seven days.

Skulls?! Are they the baddies?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY

Most style guides and standards accept either spelling, especially when writing for general audiences.

For strict, formal writing, “lede” is still preferred.

https://getproofed.com.au/writing-tips/idiom-tips-bury-the-lede-or-bury-the-lead/

Las Vegas has already achieved 97% storage supply for its needs - a city that barely sleeps at night.

Again, where is your evidence that it is not going to improve across the board, and will all fail?

“It’s not all happening right now,” is not even close to a convincing answer. If that was the reason to exclude any technology, there’d be none.

And it’s an especially ironic answer given that it takes up to 20 years to commission a nuclear power plant. And they are down for scheduled maintenance for up to a month a year, etc.

Why wouldn’t solar and other renewables combined with batteries be better?

It’s very early days, yet California recently had 98 days on renewables. That started in winter.

What is it about renewables with batteries that you believe will fail, despite the mass adoption that is under way?

Why will the projected, continued decline in battery prices and advances in battery tech not occur?

Why would adjacent solutions, like the massive storage ability of vehicle-to-grid, be worse compared to nuclear?

Why are so many “in the know” getting it so wrong?

Yep, he is clearly didn’t learn from the shit show that his tariff war caused in his first term.

Over 245,000 US jobs were lost. And it cost consumers and businesses $900,000 for each job that was saved in the steel industry.

But yeah, let’s do that again, only this time on a massive scale (sigh)

Yes, China dumps EVs on other markets.

But here are some extra insights to consider about the issue:

• To curb dumping, many countries already have, or are introducing, high tariffs against Chinese EVs. Biden had a 100% tariff on EVs, Canada is 100%, India is 70-100%, the EU is up to 45%, Brazil is ramping up to 35%, etc.
• Around 90% of all EVs China produces are sold in China. So even if EV dumping ends, it’ll have only a minor effect on production
• Dumping is caused by over supply of Chinese EVs at the moment. Some countries, like the US under Trump policies, are deliberately attempting to drive down EV demand, further adding to the issue. And as with all markets, over supply can’t be sustained indefinitely, so it’s predicted that multiple Chinese EV manufacturers will go under or merge. This is normal in evolving markets
• China is innovating much faster with EV tech, especially with battery technology. Meanwhile the US under Trump is removing incentives for EV production and ownership, and causing significant market uncertainty. This will have a far greater effect on Chinese dominance of the technology than dumping
• China is in the majority of countries in offering government subsidies and tax breaks for emerging products, especially on things like R&D and infrastructure
• The US and other countries also dump products on a significantly larger scale. For example, the US government subsidizes corn which is sold to world markets under production cost. Exports of corn from the US in 2024 were ~$14 billion, while Chinese EV exports were under $5 billion

None of this is intended to condone China or any country dumping products, but as a warning about having overly simplified reactions to an issue without understanding the bigger picture.

The person I responded to only has one device. But even if there were multiple devices, you could just have a smart switch per device.

The fire hazard issue is that holding the battery at 100% increases the internal chemical stress on the battery, and increases the risk of thermal runaway. So keeping it well below that will definitely have significant benefit. Ideally, trickle charging it at around 50% would be best for almost eliminating further strain. (But you’ll likely need to charge it from 20-80% occasionally to help the battery management system keep calibrated.)

And things can be done even smarter. Like only charge the battery at the coldest part of the day, typically early morning to reduce heat stress. Or throttle the device if it’s temperature reaches a threshold. Etc.

Yes, if you can remove the battery, that’s helpful. But keep in mind you lose the benefit of battery backup during mains failure.

Also, mobile phone fires get a lot of media attention because “drama,” but they’re not the hazard everyone thinks they are. You’re far more likely to have a house fire from rodents chewing into electrical cables, clothes dryer lint catching fire, or anything with a heating component. Ebikes and escooters are far more likely to catch fire than phones.

The point is if you’re not emptying your dryer lint filter every use; if you’re not getting home pest inspections every six months and putting down rodent traps or baits; if you’re not getting your heating-element devices professionally checked regularly; if you’re not storing your ebike well away from flammables; etc., then worrying about phone battery fires is ridiculously out of proportion.

I’ve got a colleague who says she’ll never buy an electric car because of the fire risk. But then she drives around in her gas car which is 8,000%+ more likely to catch fire.

If you’re still paranoid, keep the device in a non-combustable container away from flammables, and near enough to a smoke detector. It’s easy to setup something that if the phone catches fire it’ll just burn itself out.