And New Zealand is not a third world country

No, but the US is.

Also, terminal-only

this is not the case anymore. You can run graphical applications.

... And here I was, hoping to see lossless audio. 😑

Please stop promoting this creep!

Thanks for that, but the question still stands.

TLDW: read all the blog posts, all the discussions and make your own opinion. I lost 15 minutes of my life and didn't become any more informed or smarter.

XMPP is an old protocol. GTalk (google talk) and Whatsapp used it, then extended it, then didn't give back to the community. So here we are...

The problem with alternative protocols and apps and whatnot is that people are reluctant to change and won't try anything new if only 2-3 other people use that protocol/service. I can't even convince my best friends to use Signal, let alone XMPP.

Please don't promote this prick anymore!

There are so many reasons, but the main one is that they keep pushing their shitty Exynos cpus in Europe! My next phone is certainly not a Samsung just for this reason.

As the others have said, your first issue is using blank spaces before and after =

Then, when you need to use double quotes in a command, the alias should be defined with single quotes, like this:

\$ alias dockps='docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}  {{.Names}}  {{.Status}}  {{.Ports}}"'

And this is a surprise for whom?

No.