I had to do it for my atom d2550s because of the odd hybrid x86/x86-64 systems they are. I had to install what ended up being linux mint debian edition 5 because that was the best way to get an OS on the odd bootloader system for various reasons, then upgraded to 6 to get to the latest debian, then I installed proxmox and removed all the debian stuff.

What do I do with something as weak as a pair of D2550s? Don’t you worry about that. I’ve found uses for both. :P

It’s an unusual use case, but it’s one reason you might need to install debian before proxmox.

China still burns more coal every year than every single other country on earth put together.

This matters a lot, because it doesn’t matter that you’re “using electricity” if it’s coming from a big ol’ coal pollution factory.

In some ways, it’s preferable to directly use the coal in some applications – changing from chemical energy to thermal to movement to electricity back to thermal energy can be less efficient than just changing the chemical energy to thermal energy and using that directly.

I have to admit, it’s something I’d like to see done a bit better (not that I’d be the one posting about it typically)

“Crocoslut version 12 released!”

Uh… great?

Though sometimes you go to the website and it’s not much better.

Yes.

I use nextcloud and I love it.

You want to follow the 3-2-1 strategy: 3 copies of your data on at least 2 different forms of media, and 1 backup being off-line.

Speedrunning destroying your platform.

Something that I have been warning about for years now is that all of these establishment voices that claim to support a thing are just going to use that thing up and then discard it like a used tissue.

The sooner people realize that, the better off everyone will be. Global megacorps are not your friend.

To be fair, we Canadians have an awful lot to fix that isn’t going to get fixed.

Did you read about the recent uncovering of the government report that said that poor people were going to be foraging in the woods for food in the next decade or two? Sure I’m glad that we keep on focusing on the keeping rich people in Europe happy.

Unfortunately, no matter who ended up in charge the debt was always going to rise catastrophically. Trump talked a good game up front, but all you need to do is look at his first term to realize he doesn’t want to be the guy who takes anything away.

But unfortunately even the discussion around this bill shows that his political instincts are correct even if they are going to ultimately help destroy the country. The moment that anything is on The chopping block, everyone starts to panic as if you can just spend unlimited money forever without consequences.

Now people who want to make this a partisan issue are being silly, there is no political party you could vote for other than perhaps the libertarian party who would actually cut spending if given the chance. Unfortunately that’s the game that we are playing right now, and you even see it in all the stories listed on this economics community – nobody wants to lose anything paid for by the state even though nobody is paying the full cost for all the services being presented.

In a previous analysis I realized that the unlimited debt spending is the price of unity. The fact of the matter is that most countries on Earth today need to heavily balkanize, the only reason that they haven’t yet is massive government outlays that effectively purchase loyalty. The same thing happened in the final days of rome, and it will continue to work right up until it entirely stopped working and all of these empires collapse. It also happened in Weimar Germany, the late Ottoman empire, and late Qing China. You can’t hold an empire together with money forever.

Ironically, nationalism is thought of as a conservative idea, but it is in fact a product of the Jacobins, it’s a new idea that doesn’t actually work when pressed. The idea of a nation is not new, but the idea that the Jacobins presented of nationalism was a revolutionary idea – literally it was built into their revolution. The problem is that often revolutionary ideas are empirically false. The United States is not the only country that is going to fall apart, we can already see that many European nations are unlikely to remain in their current form for the next century.

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Ugly good guy non-isekai

Amen.

It hasn’t been talked about because they went way down, first at the wholesale commercial level, then at stores. Egg prices dropped 12% in April, the largest drop in 40 years, and wholesale prices dropped a while back but haven’t yet been reflected in prices at the store shelf.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5397827/egg-prices-drop-inflation-bird-flu

Inflation in the US in April was at the lowest level since 2021, In large part due to energy going way down and food mostly rising only modestly.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_05132025.htm

Problem is, most of the media have exactly one goal of talking about how horrible things are under the president they didn’t want. Be careful relying on both the media and this Lemmy community in particular because if you’re relying on the information to make good decisions you’ll be directly misled.

It’s even arguable that Trump didn’t cause the drop in egg prices or inflation and they represent the continuation of trends that were already turning that way, but it’s good news so it will not get reported.

The example of eggs is a good example of the dangers of relying on biased sources – they’ll tell you one side of the story but not the other.

Nextcloud with a 3-2-1 backup strategy is ace. Proxmox can auto-backup, it’s slick.

“what did you think would happen? I’m fuckin evil! I killed kids! You think I’m too nice to use some f-slurs?”

Unfortunately most of the western world is simply in a debt spiral they can’t get out of, America leading the pack.

The US has two parties, one wants to increase spending, the other generally wants to cut taxes, but neither of them cares about the consequences.

I guess, why would they? Most of them won’t live to see those consequences.

Well, don’t I feel silly. haha

If your blog uses WordPress, there is an activitypub plugin so people can subscribe using mastodon or whatever you’ve got.

I tend to think that even if Trump came up with the best policy on planet earth, nobody on lemmy would admit it, they’d just keep calling him stupid. It seems like things are pretty tribal and so even if something does have some thought behind it, it’s required to just keep on the attack so everything is evil and stupid. You can say “no, we’d be honest”, but just look at the economics community here – virtually every post is about how stupid Trump is.

There weren’t just tariffs against China, they were just particularly bad to that country because they are a major US strategic rival. Something being created in China being moved to India may not necessarily be the optimal outcome (or even something being “made in the USA” being made in India being the optimal outcome), but as I said in my long post about tariffs, there are multiple things going on with different time constants for each. Immediate consequences are going to look bad because none of the potentially good things can happen on short timespans – as everyone else has pointed out (and as I pointed out in my post on tariffs), building a factory or moving supply to the US takes a really long time, whereas the immediate negative consequences of tariffs occur almost immediately. That doesn’t mean eating short-term pain for long-term benefits is stupid, it just means the pain comes first.

Will Trump’s tariffs work – that’s what would make them smart or stupid – so what’s the answer? I don’t really know. Widespread tariffs like the tariffs of abomination did work to increase the US manufacturing output in the 1800s despite introducing massive amounts of pain including being a (though certainly not the primary) likely causal element of the civil war. However, we aren’t living in the same world as America was in the 1800s. England was more or less self-sufficient back in the 1700s and 1800s, the world is more globalized today, so it might not be so simple to do the same thing again.

Is dramatic action required immediately? Yes. Full-stop.

The US national debt is at 36.8 Trillion dollars at the moment according to US national debt clock. The interest on the national debt is already larger than the US defense budget. The idea that globalization can exist as it does in 20 years without the Americans being able to defend maritime shipping lanes with their absurd army is nearly 0. Moreover, as I mentioned, if war with China occurs and it really looks like there’s a chance they try in the next little while, then all the Chinese supply chains immediately shut down.

So the only option is to start taking major actions. Just look at the news feed, it’s all filled with how we should have just kept with the status quo, but that’s not wise at all. So are the tariffs a dumb idea? In the short term, definitely. Do nothing and you won’t hurt anything. But if you’ve been living in the rust belt you know full well what we’ve already lost – the post-war policies have decimated the entire region. And I’m not saying the rust belt can return, but if nobody does anything painful to try to get something somewhere to return, the post-globalization era will be much more painful than it has to be.

One of the biggest moments of globalization failing in history was the Bronze Age Collapse, and it destroyed every ancient civilization in the fertile crescent except Egypt. In the near future of that event entirely new civilizations lived in those regions and some, such as Crete, would be lost to history entirely until a mere 100 years ago due to some exceptional archeological work. That collapse in part caused global supply chains feeding the bronze age to end, and that was a less integrated economy than today.

It isn’t just peacetime vs. wartime. It’s about good times vs. hard times. The current economic consensus was built in the post-war period where the US was the only country whose manufacturing capacity hadn’t been blown to smithereens over two world wars. It made sense at that time because it was a move without a downside – utilize multilateral free trade and everyone had to buy from you anyway, and if you needed anything from your clients you could get them at low prices without any tariffs. The problem is it isn’t 75 years ago anymore – Europe has a manufacturing base of some design again (with Germany at its heart, ironically), Asia is a manufacturing superpower and not just China, and the US is still following a foreign economic policy that was designed when nobody else was making anything. The US was also funding protecting the planet’s shipping lanes to make globalization practical and that worked because it was doing everything for the planet earth, but now it has as high a debt/gdp ratio as it did after the second world war, but it isn’t the end of the second world war any longer.

My country is generally fairly left, and we have some massive tariffs against the United States, including over 100% on dairy products, and 45% tariffs on aluminium and steel. All of those tariffs predate Trump’s political career. It seems like high protectionist tariffs only are complained against in one direction.

Here’s my previous analysis of the tariffs: https://lemmy.world/post/28221500

One thing that you are absolutely mistaken about is that I don’t understand how manufacturing works. I’m a pretty old guy, and I’ve spent my entire career in manufacturing and heavy industry. That’s exactly why I think it’s important to be trying to rebuild local supply chains.

During covid, and for quite a few years after, parts that claimed to be made in America couldn’t be purchased without massive lead times because it turns out that they were heavily reliant on Chinese supply chains. It doesn’t matter that you have a factory that can build a vfd for example if you can’t get resistors. That matters a lot.

Now you can say that the factories don’t exist, and that is absolutely true. The problem is that you need to stop thinking in terms of first order effects and start thinking about knock-on effects. This is been our problem for the past 50 years. We don’t have the factories because they shut down because industrial policy was to globalize. And we thought we could get away with that, because for example we could sell our expertise to other countries. The problem is that all the people who had expertise are dying of old age. Their kids are growing up in a world where they never had to go to a factory, they don’t know how to build a factory, they don’t know how to build anything. This is a big problem, and it’s always been a big problem. In the 1700s, Alexander Hamilton presented a report that suggested that tariffs would be useful in helping to produce big enough trade barriers to build the industry on this new continent of america, and there was a lot of trouble caused by such tariffs. At the time the global manufacturing hub was not China but england. England was able to produce materials cheaper and better then the Americans could. The tariffs were effectively keeping out higher quality, lower cost goods. Regardless, this was how the United States ended up with its industrial base that was hollowed out centuries later.

I’m not pretending that tariffs aren’t going to cause pain. They caused tremendous pain back in the 1700s and 1800s, and in fact we’re likely part of the kindling that helped spark the civil War. Extremely high tariffs with England resulted in England putting retaliatory tariffs on American cotton and other agricultural exports, and so the South tended to suffer while the north benefited. Eventually things came to a head and they ended up needing to come to a compromise of higher tariffs then you might expect, but much lower than what the north was originally implementing. All that being said however, this is long-term thinking. It’s what long-term thinking looks like. It’s not looking around and saying that factories don’t exist today, it’s asking how we can make sure that there are factories tomorrow. It isn’t talking about how we are relatively peaceful with China today, it’s about asking what could happen if we ended up in a war with China tomorrow. This sort of long-term thinking is actually what the West in general needs.

And I think it’s important to note, I’m not saying this from the perspective of an American who’s going to benefit from these tariffs. I’m saying it from the perspective of a citizen of a country who has been hit hard by US tariffs. It would be better for me if everything was tariffed at zero percent. On the other hand, just because something hurts me doesn’t mean I don’t understand why it’s important.