Yup, you can DL enterprise Win11 for free to, just gotta know how to grab it from MS.

What stops people from messing with their leased batteries?

Yes it’s still not enough, that’s been my whole point, all we’ve done is like if SSDs were never invented. Like we’re still stuck on spinning disk tech. We’re still lacking the charge speed and the range. Yes batteries are better than 1970s when the current design was created, but we haven’t made that jump from HDD to SSD.

They got heavier to hold more charge. Nothing in any of these charts proves the tech has advanced drastically since the 70s. Seriously the 2nd chart just says they got cheaper basically for how much you get. That’s like saying HDDs are cheaper now more than ever, but still use a spinning disk technology… it’s like we never leaped to SSDs. That’s the jump we need.

I’m expecting drones to take a ton of the short space deliveries sooner than EV trucks.

The issue is we haven’t had real breakthroughs in battery tech since the 70s, we’ve gotten slightly better improvements but we’re still using the same base. We’ve had tons of promises in the lab but nothing has actually made it out. Hopefully there will be a breakthrough but so far there hasn’t been.

No, that’s just something new you invented to shoot down the idea.

So each swap station is going to have batteries techs that know what the fuck they’re doing, checking on every battery that comes in?

Batteries can have a tamperproof seal so that customers can’t easily mess with it, just like you normally don’t mess with the electricity, gas or water meter in your home.

What world do you live in? People fuck with their houses all the time, its why you get an inspection when you buy a home(even if most inspectors only find the shit on the surface).

QC and charging can be done on site where you swap, and can mostly be automated. The only thing that needs to be transported back and forth regularly are defective and replacement batteries. Just like gas stations at the end of the day or week need to order replenishment for the fuel they’ve dispensed.

Again so you’re going to have ever charge station have basically certified battery engineers that can check out battery systems that come in? Are you also planning on forcing the EV makers into standardized battery packs?

We already do this kind of swapping with other stuff as well: from crates with empty beer bottles and office water cooler bottles to refilling propane and butane bottles.

Cool, when is the last time you saw an empty beer bottle truck catch fire because roger fucked with his miller lite?

1. The lack of government oversight that you brought up, and which this was in reply to, is literally a government issue. Regulation and inspection works fine in most of the civilized world, the fact that it doesn’t in Backwater USA is no argument.

Ah so only in good ol EU do you guys not have car crashes and house fires because regulation has solved that shit.

2. Fossil fuel distribution already is a huge logistics issue, we have to dig it up in the middle east, transport it in oil tankers, refine it at some central locations, then distribute it again with tanker trucks to millions of gas stations so that finally you can put it in your car and use it to drive somewhere, but somehow we have been making that work for over a century.

Cool, whataboutism got it…the real problem you should be talking about is how quickly you can charge a battery and how long it’ll last on said charge…not let’s re-invent the wheel…

Yea gas is a one way trip, and then it’s into the end customer. It’s not an unprecedented logistics problem, it’s just a logistics problem that ends up requiring a ton of more energy. Batteries need to be able to charge way quicker and hold a longer charge, that’s the problem that should be getting worked, not a how to transport battery packs around.

Ok, roger shows up dumps his shit battery or ticking time bomb and gets a free battery out of it. Do you plan on requiring everyone to show ID and get a face scan?

Exactly, this is the equivalent of tire swaps…my tires I take care of and rotate and replace when the tread is worn down, the hell do I want someone’s else batteries being in my car that could end up having a short lift or explode on me.

No they didn’t, people got tired of the smell and public awareness of smoking came from watching family members die. Labels didn’t do shit. Smoking was on the decline before the labels even showed up.

Quality control on batteries that go out to customers, and make the stations legally liable.

Ah, so you’re wanting to transport tons and tons of batteries back to a centralized facility to be inspected and have testing done?

Sounds more like a “your government is shit” problem than a “this scheme can’t work” problem.

It’s not a gov problem, it’s a logistics issue.

How does this solve the issue of roger fucking with his battery and then you ending up with it during a battery swap? You do realize how many states with counties have no inspections right?

Yea, sure but that doesn’t effect me because I have the chance to know who’s working on my car, you don’t if you habe battery swapping going on.

Lol no, no one smokes anymore mainly because it’s a taboo and a pack of cigs is so expensive it’s basically impossible to do so on the regular.

The labels don’t do shit.

It’s not just that, its what happens if you get a battery from a guy named roger who said he knows what he’s doing and fucked with it?

Battery swapping sounds great, until you put it into a real world scenario.

I’m not saying linux is the end all be all, there is a reason the enterprise world runs on Windows still, but while I like my MacBooks from work, they’ve got a lot to be desired for the price. Non mac laptops have really caught up with design and hardware.

Tons of laptops with top notch specs for 1/2 the price of a M1/2 out there, and they can have linux installed. The M series still has issues with applications running properly on them as well.

I buy used, why would you pay 1k+ for a phone… that’s insanity.

I will say the back of my note10+ is shattered, even with a case, glass backs are the dumbest thing ever.