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

So true! But I found a trick where you can get Jellyfin cheap if you buy it pretending to be a resident of another country. Here’s some prices:

• Vietnam - 0₫ (VND)
• India - ₹0 (INR)
• Indonesia - Rp0 (IDR)
• Philippines - ₱0 (PHP)
• Thailand - ฿0 (THB)
• Mexico - Mex$0 (MXN)
• Brazil - R$0 (BRL)
• South Africa - R0 (ZAR)
• Turkey - ₺0 (TRY)
• China - ¥0 (CNY)
• Malaysia - RM0 (MYR)
• Egypt - E£0 (EGP)
• Argentina - AR$0 (ARS)
• Japan - ¥0 (JPY)
• South Korea - ₩0 (KRW)
• Singapore - S$0 (SGD)
• Australia - A$0 (AUD)
• New Zealand - NZ$0 (NZD)
• Canada - C$0 (CAD)
• United Kingdom - £0 (GBP)
• European Union countries - €0 (EUR)
• United States - $0 (USD)

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.

Man, everyone is coming up with nonsense reasons for why it’s not a coincidence. I mean it’s just obvious he’s a time traveller from a time before the word “crap” meant anything.

Come with me. I’ve got a banana and when I put it next to the terroritory, you’ll immediately get a sense of the true size.

“So much winning!”

During the first Trump administration, Soybean farmers were hit hard by the tariff war with China, especially in the mid-west. The administration had to bail out the industry with tens of billions of dollars in handouts. Many farmers went under, and there was a clear rise in farmer suicides.

So what did these farmers do?.. yep, they voted for Trump again for a second term [sigh]

And after seeing how devastating tarrifs were on farmers and industries, and the deaths it caused the first time around, surely Trump learned a valuable lesson and vowed not to use tarrifs so recklessly in his second term…

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Kopia might meet your needs.

https://kopia.io/

(Edit, because I’ve got more time :)

• Runs native on Windows and macOS. Doesn’t need Windows WSL or a wrapper
• Can run as client-server, or standalone, backing up to local, network, S3, WebDAV, various clouds, etc
• Open source
• Snapshots are incremental, encrypted, and deduplicated
• CLI and GUI

I’ve been happily using it for years for similar needs (mixed systems)

It’ll probably come as no surprise to learn that the EU has had a ban on the use of BPA in paper receipts (since 2020)… and the US has no federal ban.

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

Syncthing has multiple file versioning strategies.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html

So it can provide quite solid protection beyond a trash can, but yes, it’s still primarily a syncing tool.

Yep, it’s only a matter of time before he’ll be talking about “invading Austria where all those kangaroos and koalas live”

Not true. In Australia, except for the sharks, spiders, snakes, bees, crocodiles, drop bears, mosquitoes, jellyfish, scorpions, ants, bats, fish, snails, dingoes, centipedes, wasps, octopuses, possums, ticks, sea snakes, emus and other birds, there’s really not much trying to kill you.

/s (yes, the should not be necessary, but have you met people)