Genius degenerates rule our world

Enter BIMP, Batch Image Manupulation Plugin for Gimp.

I had 16k+ images to convert, and was told that BIMP can do it. It kind of can. Sort of. Yeah, in single thread mode, which is going to take 5 hours. I swear I tried to do it in parallel, but...

This is the year 2023, and we still put up with single-threaded software. From BIMP, I learned 2x simple truths:

1. You cannot run more than 1x instance of Gimp under Windows.
2. Even that you can run more than 1x instance of BIMP, they single-thread.

BIMP developer, if you read this: you are a waste of skin, processing time, and electric power. Quit development and go flipping burgers where you belong.

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Another Linux lie: we have a CMS

Truth: you do not.

WordPress is a blogging platform, allegedly. It should do blogging the best. This includes authentication before posting, if the site is so configured. But spammers are still able to comment, without logging in. You failed, genius and condescending WordPress developers.

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The lust for perpetual, untested, rapid updates should be punishable by death

Wordpress rolls out their new version, and image uploads to the media libraries no longer work. We should seriously consider ridding our gene pule of the pollutants called "WordPress developers".

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Genius degenerates rule our world

So, I had an older Debian VM and wanted to upgrade it. After all, this is the year 2023, and people of Earth now travel between stars, but I digress. So, I head over to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade and read through the upgrade process. Sounds simple! So, I run the commands that are supposed to upgrade my OS, only to notice that after the reboot I am greeted with the new desktop background but still the old kernel signature. Oops?

Yeah, it is a big 'oops' on the Debian distro team's part. How do we fix that? Well, google to the rescue, and the 1st result is a stack exchange answer that tells me to run one more command: apt-get dist-upgrade. Seroiusly? You create a Wiki page above, to instruct your users on how to upgrade to the next major release, but you forget/neglect to mention how you upgrade the very kernel?

People at Debian: you sound really, really dumb. Give your head a shake! You are the only ones who are expected to know everything about your distro. OMG!

I am not going to whine and moan about the upgrade ending in a broken system due to python requiring but not finding libcrypt.so.1. It is unimportant and pales in comparison with the missing step.

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