Battery chemistry patents are notoriously easy to “design around” to create variations. Who is going to want to risk working with a company that has a track record of being notoriously dodgy, especially when there’s a couple of dozen well established major players that have solid reputations and scale.
Yes, if they supplied batteries to independent testers, that would quickly prove their technically claims are true or false.
But the hole they’ve dug isn’t just about technical claims. As I said, they’ve relied on dodgy marketing tactics which has caused industry damage, and that wouldn’t just disappear. They’d still have huge business reputation issues regarding things like trust for starters. Businesses are far more than just their technology. Plenty of great tech has failed due to other factors and execution.
Yep, that’s a massive argument against Donut. But the question I haven’t seen the battery experts address is whether the expansion pattern is unique to the chemistry they believe it is. Are there other chemistries that could produce the same effect? The investigators clearly don’t think so, but Donut also isn’t claiming to be using previously seen tech.
Either way, it’s not looking good for Donut. The burden of proof is, and always has been, on them, and they have a looooong climb out of the hole they’ve dug.
Regardless, Ziroth and others make a good point that Donut’s marketing games are damaging to the industry. Other legitimate players seeking investment will be tarnished by Donut’s antics. So even if their tech turned out to be legit, they’re still going to be a bad actor.
Reading the article, the investigation isn’t a case of independent labs getting hold of the battery and definitively disproving Donut’s claims. It’s battery experts and researchers looking at the data Donut has released and saying, “these claims are extraordinary and the evidence doesn’t yet convince us. Here’s what we think the battery actually is.” That’s a very reasonable scientific position, especially when you’re talking about 400 Wh/kg, 5-minute charging, and 100,000 cycles all at once.
But without independently tested samples, there are still a lot of unknowns and inferences involved. That’s not to say the skeptics are wrong, but it’s still arguably a case of skeptics being skeptical… reasonably so, but based on analysis of the available evidence rather than direct examination of the battery itself.
All true, but It’s all about perspective. Trump won the election promising repeatedly that he wouldn’t start new wars, and would in fact end wars.
And depending on which polls you follow, the approval rating for the attacks on Iran are as low as 27% (Reuters/Ipsos, March 2026). But all polls conclude that the majority of US citizens do not support the war.
So this is definitely not something the US voters directly signed up for. Voting for a president is not a mandate for that president to operate on wholesale deception.
Nooch (nutritional yeast) has tons
Only if fortified. Otherwise it has very little or none.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/nutritional-yeast#nutrients-and-benefits
TREASON!
Great. I’ve got my Costco pitchfork.
Erm… shouldn’t we be rioting or something. Frankly, I’m a bit of a virgin at all this.
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:
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://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:
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.
Historians estimate that Jackson caused the death of 10,000 to 15,000 native Americans.
It’s projected that Trump’s defunding of USAID will kill around 14 million by 2030. 4.5 million of those will be children under the age of 5 (See Lancet study.) Throw in his health care roll backs, social services withdrawals, suicides from tariffs, etc. and that figure goes a lot higher.