well yeah. But most phones w/o a 3.5 mm jack don’t have an integrated DAC anyways, so the choice is up to you.

But the storage and the fact that it’s all in a light weight bundle, that’s indepedent of your phone is pretty convincing.

I remember having on, back in the day, that ran on a single AAA battery for a week an was marginally larger than one of these. Unfortunately I tinkered with trying to run it on an external power supply when I knew to little about electronics and ran a few too may Volts through it. Otherwise this thing would probably still work fine. I kinda never looked back since was content enough with my phone for listening to music. But I do have fond meories of those things, and I miss the 3.5 mm jack on my most recent phone, maybe I should reconsider…

What’s the advantage over a smartphone?

Aaand it’s called … ?

Who’s Lazlo? And is it the same actor that played Douglas Reynholm in The IT-Crowd?

If so: I loved that role and need to see this, because that costume looks like he’s playing a sleazy vampire version of Douglas, and that sounds amazing.

Not the worst, they are still much better than traditional lead-batteries, but worse than lithium. Cheap, low-range EVs are an option however.

Other than that, you’re right. They are much more useful for grid storage, where energy density is way less important than cost.

Not this time. They are already being used. They are not super batterie though and won’t to replace Lithium batteries any time soon, but they have their niches.

The main advantage over Lithium batteries is that sodium is an abundant ressource.

English isn’t my first language, but can you even fix the prepositions to the verbs like that. Wouldn’t you have to define your frame of reference? I’d say it shifts with your perspective.

Example: I’m in Homeyland and there are migrants, who are emigrating from the Faraway Islands and immigrating to Homeyland.

When I’m in the Faraway Islands, I’d say the same people are emigrating to Homeyland. While Homeylanders coming here are immigrating from Homeyland.

A main issue, according to my non-software related work-life experience is also: liability reasons.

Being able to legally blame someone else when shit goes wrong is a very motivating driver for executive decisions.