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Ultimately, my biggest worry is that Trump’s absolute piss-poor understanding and implementation of tariffs has very likely ‘poisoned the well’ to the point that they could probably never be successfully implemented in our lifetime by an actual competent Government

Well, it's not as if they had much chance of happening anyway, given the neoliberal status quo for decades before that, so... 🤷

Sure, but that reasonable and nuanced idea has nothing to do with what Trump's position on tariffs has always been. He's just a dipshit that doesn't understand the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics, or that the entire economy of of a country that controls its own currency (and especially one that controls the world's reserve currency) doesn't work the same way as an individual household or business.

Tariffs have been the one major actual policy position rattling around in Trump's empty skull since at least 1988. He fucking loves the idea of tariffs, for some reason.

I was initially confused by it too, but got used to it. I think the moderator functions ought to be accessed by an icon separate from the edit ellipsis, but I agree that it shouldn't be a green shield like that.

Yeah, it's another layer, and so there definitely is an https://xkcd.com/927/ aspect to it... but (at least in theory) only having problems getting Docker (1 program) to run is better than having problems getting N problems to run, right?

(I'm pretty ambivalent about Docker myself, BTW.)

I'm aware of that, but OP requested "explain like I'm stupid" so I omitted that detail.

A program isn't just a program: in order to work properly, the context in which it runs — system libraries, configuration files, other programs it might need to help it such as databases or web servers, etc. — needs to be correct. Getting that stuff figured out well enough that end users can easily get it working on random different Linux distributions with arbitrary other software installed is hard, so developers eventually resorted to getting it working on their one (virtual) machine and then just (virtually) shipping that whole machine.

It won't be in the US though. It'll be somewhere with super cheap labor and no regulations or environmental protections.

Just wait; Trump's "policies" will ensure the US meets both those criteria.

Because the articles are written by capitalists for capitalists to manufacture consent for capitalism. Of fucking course they're going to downplay or ignore the Free Software/non-profit aspect of it!

That's how you get monetized spying enshittified email. Do you want monetized spying enshittified email?

Fun fact: it turns out that all those LEDs rely (in Windows at least) on a super-insecure driver written by a hobbyist who last updated it in the mid-2000s and has since disavowed it.

I feel like the $190 they want for the Pi 4/microSD version would've been a reasonable price for the Pi 5/NVME version.