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I think these and other issues can be solved with technical training.
Sure, they’re all mitigatable, but that technical training is competing with a lot of other considerations within the limited brainwidth of a scientist. From the scientist’s perspective, a lot of this can start to feel like yak shaving. The opportunity costs are real.
Eh, maybe. Virtualbox is point and click at this point, and taken on in conjunction with their institutional IT departments as hopefully they do with all desktop point and click software, totally doable with 5-10 hours of training and some typed desk procedures. Learning new tools and workflow seems to be part of the job. As I type that I also thought of a different response from the perspective of a leader and software engineer, I did not type that response.