That was before his Big Bonkers Bill and crashing the bonds market with his stupid tariffs. The markets have started to call into question whether America can remain solvent. Taking up billions only to pass the money on to the tech bros to keep their AI bubble going a little longer might not be an option, simply because investors won’t have it.

Though he does provide a lot of fuel for it, the bubble exists independently of the grifter-in-chief. Also, blot clots are a thing.

Don’t worry, they’re at /$USER/$HOME

sudo apt install edge-browser

Nice setup! Are all those LXCs rootless docker containers?

Oh, don’t worry. The bubble is going to pop <checks watch> aaaaany minute now.

until I can find a like marketplace website that is based in Europe.

Have you tried Galaxus yet? It’s been my go-to since culling my Amazon account in early 2025.

I don’t like Ansible, other tools can be easier to use. But I don’t want to recommend something concrete.

Which ones do you like to work with? (Even though it’s not a recommendation ;) I’ve only dabbled in Ansible so far and found it overkill for most of the things I do, but maybe one of yours isn’t?

That’s what I use it for as well. Updating 7+ VMs is no fun. With Ansible? No worries.

That very same, yup. You might know my song:

“Imagine all the people /
Living life in shells.”

But as a result you’ll have a self-documented configuration-as-a-code that will allow you to scale your setup as you need. Reproducing something won’t require reading your notes, remembering your actions etc.

Until you realise that

• you don’t really need to scale a homelab that much
• if something breaks, you just want to quickly fix it manually because “doing the Ansible” is more of a pain
• now idempotency and documentation-as-code is out of the window. ;)

(I’m being tongue-in-cheek here. I don’t doubt this may work for you, but it takes much more discipline than I have.)

As much as I’d like to assume these things happened out of conviction, they might just be free bargaining chips for the next clash with the orange moron. After all, reopening your airspace to American planes comes at zero cost and may at the same time convince him that he has “won” something.

Either way: it’s good to see this become a phenomenon.

I fear they aren’t trying (or likely) to “get” anything. I think we need to come to terms with the fact that for right-wingers, there’s nothing rational about their political decisions. Yes, they will rationalise it after the fact when pressed by pollsters, claiming they’re mostly concerned about migration or the economy. But if you really drill down, you’ll find that many of them live in parts of the country where there are hardly any migrants, and that the economic policies of their favoured right-wing parties would hurt them more than anyone else.

Just goes to show that chatbots are not search engines, and the more search engines lean into chatbots, the more pressing this problem will become.

Hence I specifically wrote “he and his government”. But let’s also not forget: ultimately, it was he who put that poorly camouflaged lobbyist into her seat.

To be fair, he and his government have been working tirelessly for this. They’ve been

• lying about the necessity of new debt (then immediately taking up unprecedented amounts of it)
• promising reforms that never came
• calling the working part of the population lazy bums, all the while preparing tax breaks that will disproportionally benefit large companies and the top 10%
• fucking up and slowing down the transition towards renewables amid yet another fossil fuel energy crisis
• copying the disgusting populism of the far right all the while claiming to be trying to contain them (instead of doing the obvious and initiating a constitutional review of the party by the Supreme Court)

What annoys me more than the man himself is the fact that everyone paying even a modicum of attention could have seen this coming from a mile away. And they voted for his party anyway.

Don’t give Fotzenfritz ideas. He’ll hear it, get all jealous and demand a 36-hour workday.

I don’t feel him, but then again, I’m not underage.

If I look at the results of these people “thinking”, I doubt it would have made much of a difference.

Yup, sorry guys, that was me.