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You must be joking. I’ve turned that off after first month of use. It’s unbearable. “Oh since you are in {place i mentioned a week ago while planning trip but ultimately didnt go} the home assistant integration question changes completely”. Or ending every answer with “since you are salesforce consultant, would you like to learn more about iron smelting?”

I told Gemini I'm a software engineer and it explains absolutely everything in programming metaphors now. I think it's way undertrained with personalization.

So strange. I switched from claude few months ago to gemini3 and didn’t look back. Speed is big one, code quality just vastly better, all while far cheaper. I do need to try latest claude models tho.

Google will win, it’s becoming obvious

Yes, because nobody uses it

On one side we have people who know how to build, using their wealth to build more.

On other side we have people who distribute someone else's wealth.

The only status quo I see is that both go hand in hand.


The people that “build wealth” definitely play by the rules and don’t use their outsized resources to tip things in their favor to build more.

> The people that “build wealth” definitely play by the rules

Are you talking about the workers who actually do the job and build the things others pay money for?

Because they have no other option than to play by the rules - if they don’t, they go to jail and won’t be able to buy a pardon.


99% of that wealth is not not build for them. You wanna look how much of that "paper wealth" is owned by founders.

Naxtra hasn't even published their specs, why draw such conclusions?

I agree they are expensive, but IMO their software is worth $1k.

Safety and quality in $2k battery is just not going to be there. That's bottom of the barrel. Quality batteries cost roughly the same.


I got two Tesla Powerwall 3s partly because I thought the software would be better. Instead, they are extremely buggy and the software has poor functionality. Many of the features are broken. The product feels like a prototype. Grid charging is broken and many of the features related to it don’t do what it says in the app. The batteries regularly do calibration cycles where they dump their entire charge and then stay at 0% charge level for at least 24 hours. When I first got them about a year and a half ago they would do that about once every two weeks, although they have reduced the frequency. I’ve also had issues with them turning on their heaters when it isn’t even cold and draining themselves. You get little to no insight into their operation and need to contact technical support for any little issue. They crash and do a hard reset and shut off the power every so often as well.

it's not bottom of the barrel.

You can build a 16kWh lifepo4 for ~1800$: https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/server-rack-lifepo4.html

That gives you some experience so you'll be able to maintain it as well if any cell goes bad.


Look I DIY'd my battery too. Thats not comparable to buying high end solution.

I'm curious what you mean by high end solution and how that's different.

In my mind it's similar to premade computers vs build your own. Tesla would be something like Lenovo/dell here.

They would just grab the same cells or cheaper and some other off the shelf components and sell them to you at massive markup.

And you get situations like Battleborn where they couldnt even do the connections right and would start a fire by default...

Will build my own as well this summer so really curious whats the best way to do this


It's more like buying ozempic from india and mixing it yourself vs paying for real one

I also have built my own offgrid sytems, but sodium is here now, and lithium is not competitive in any metric that counts in a static instalation especialy cost per kw/hr, and will very likely get insured to death as it will never be as safe. My next system upgrade will be aimed at home power/heat/hot water, shop, and car charging.Possibly with the car charging bieng a discreet system that works at a higher voltage and is all DC.

I understood LiFePo4 is pretty safe and innert.

Sodium I saw some reviews where it expands a lot during charging and long term safety is not as conclusive

Why do you see sodium as an easier choice?

The main fire risk with lifepo4 is the connectors, wires, bms and shut off being suitable for high amp. That would be a risk with anything if not built properly, even without batteries if you wire your house with wrong awg wires


lithium?, in a word, dendrites

then if you can stay under long enough, the look into electrolights, this is all uni 101 stuff, but it is very clear that lithium is dead for static applications, and lower performance mobile

other words, cost, supply chain strongly favor sodium over lithium


Sodium is not here yet at all.

CATL barely started (if at all) volume production. They haven’t even published specs. Even when they ramp it up, it will be like 0.1% of total lfp output.

So no, sodium is nowhere near.


you, blinked.they are selling sodium cars, and have giggawatt factorys online, with a bunch more coming online this year.

Name 1

previously, here....,blink, blink

https://electrek.co/2026/02/05/first-sodium-ion-battery-ev-d...

and in typical China fashion you can bet that actual implimentation is going to scale at a ferocious pace now that first iterations are proving competitive..... then we could, but wont, get into other significant developments in electric power, solar, battery, etc that will be entering the market, at scale, this year wink wink


Palantir is an integration company. There are plenty of data brokers to scrutinize. i.e. discord itself sells your data.

https://discord.com/privacy

> We don’t sell your personal information.

No evidence that they sell your data against their privacy policy has ever come to light, so I think you should probably back that claim with evidence if you think otherwise.


To play devils advocate (i know nothing about discords use of data), isnt it trivial for any corporate counsel make legal statements like this that are not truthful? For example: we dont sell your data... we freely give it to our sister company with a common owner that sells your data.

That’s illegal under CCPA so if they did that to the data any California resident they would be in big trouble. More or less any transfer of data for which the company receives some benefit counts as a “sale” under CCPA.

https://www.clym.io/blog/ccpa-selling-and-sharing-what-count...


It's really simple. If you sell ads, you sell private information.

> Palantir is an integration company

That's not true at all. I worked with Palantir on a project for a prior company and they'd basically do whatever you wanted if you paid them. They had a very heavy data / "AI" presence and this was years ago. They certainly do not just do integrations.


They don't buy or sell data.

They certainly say they don’t. Its a company that I don’t think would have any qualms about lying through its teeth.

AEB has been around since ages. Even my 2010 Mazda had it. It's nowhere near Tesla's capabilities tho. Not sure what are you trying to achieve with such dunks?


It doesn't get old. What a ludicrous statement.

I did get lots of traction issues with FWD EV, any sort of wet - you need to baby it.


There’s much more to enjoying cars than speed in a straight line, which I do not disagree at all most EVs are exceptional at.

Booting the go pedal at every stop sign or light just feels like being a bit of a childish jerk after a short while on public roads once the novelty wears off.


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