Lithium Ion batteries are already converging on the prices of lead-acid, soon they will be cheaper.
Even though there may not yet be a recycling system in place for lead-acid batteries... since there aren't to many of them, once there are more of them, they will get recycled or repaired. If costs are no issue, you can probably fix simple lead-acid batteries. Particularly if the work-force is cheap, things can become feasible that would be uneconomical here.

I mean it's very simple to fall into the "colonialism"-trap and think that the people in the 3rd world are all somehow "idiots", unable to deal with the challenges they face, but they are smarter, they will find try to find ways around their problems.

Yes, they may be completely safe now and they are probably somewhat cleaner than fossil fuel... ... but the time we only had those 2 options is long gone. We now have renewables and storage. Consumer prices (at least in Europe) for a 430-450 watts peak panel are down to about 60 Euros.
Storage prices are sinking to a level where storing a kWh or energy is much below 10 cents.
We are, at least for residential users in Germany, at the point where it's cheaper to harvest and store solar energy then to buy it from the grid.

Battery grid storage is by now a fairly common product. You can buy integrated containers you only need to connect to the grid and your control system. If you want have a larger system you just order 1000 instead of 100 containers (and make sure the power lines are sufficient).

It's easier than, for example, making a giant ball of yarn, as such things don't scale well, every new layer of yarn is harder to put on than the previous. With grid storage you just need to buy more boxes.

Streaming services are one of the pinnacles of enshittification. You pay for stuff you don't own. Everything can be taken away from you at any time. Ads can be added at any time, etc.

Having physical media means that you can get a simple DRM-free file from it, you can watch whenever and wherever you want.

Well you do need language support, as in many languages you have no protection between components. So while you might not be able to directly open a file, you can get the rest of the program to open a file for you.

Also things like, for example a text-editor, would be rather pointless if they couldn't open and modify your files. If they can do that, they can also encrypt them easily.

Yes, but first of all, how are you going to do that on a module basis for programming languages? Second has there ever been an instance of this actually preventing malware?

I mean look at mobile devices. Those are the most disease riddled devices a normal person has. Even apps you use to access services you pay for are full of third party tracking malware.

It's a concept that sounds nice in theory, and does have _some_ security benefit, but it's by far not sufficient to reign in malware.

Sandboxing is no solution since software actually needs to do stuff.

You cannot contain malware that way, and mobile platforms are a great example where this fails. Any app can just bully its user into giving it the permissions it wants to have.

... why should I assume they'll actually put any work into work?

On the other side, if the potential employer uses AI to screen the applications, why should I want to work there?

The main problem is that "Registries" make the problem of dependencies seem easy. Dependencies are a problem, you trust in code you didn't write. That's why in older environments those dependencies either are managed by your distribution (which will do some minor amount of checking) or installing them is some effort. (though not that much)
This effectively deters you from using dependencies unless it _really_ makes sense. You install a dependency because you want to speak a complex protocol or you need some highly optimized algorithm. You don't use a dependency for "leftpad".

Having "self service" registries is not a solution for this. It only lowers the burden to depend on code.

...have such insecure repos. I mean you wipe out one class of security issues to allow for another much harder to contain class of security issues. Programming languages should have solid standard libraries and any kind of additional library should be installed either via the distribution, where there are minimal checks, or manually, where it hurts.

Diesel heaters seem impractical. If I understand you correctly you want to burn the Diesel. That means you'll somehow need to put the Diesel inside the bus, or install overhead Diesel lines, or have huge Diesel tanks at every charging station.

It seems easier to erect some sort of "shed" to put the bus in and heat that lightly.

Considering that those few companies that make a profit with AI actually don't need "state of the art" GPUs... that may be a fair deal.

Essentially Big-"Tech" is putting a bit of money into them (typically a tiny amount) since that means they "believe" that they will need high amounts of power in the following years. That way they they believe that the current AI-bubble is not a bubble and that it's sustainable.

In reality those contracts are often for the power produced from those generators. So when the AI bubble will burst, they will no longer need that power. Alternatively (or in combination) those SMRs will never reach a point where they can compete economically against wind, solar and battery storage. Solar, wind and storage are getting cheaper by the month, after all.

Well but typically those batteries are _extremely_ oversized. You could easily get around with just half of a full charge.

Also since cars mostly stand around parking, you could easily get a few charge cycles out of them so you can earn more money.

There are comparatively huge batteries just sitting around doing nothing. The impact on their life is tiny and the metal casing they sit in is going to have turned into rust long before they become unusable.

Now of course the sensible way to go over this would be to make those people participate in the profits the grid provider gets from storing cheap and free electricity and selling it again when it's expensive, but this is end-term capitalism.