Adobe lies: we can render

Adobe pretends it can render video effects. They have two options in Adobe Media Encoder: software and GPU. Sounds encouraging? Ha-ha! You've been fooled! In reality software means 1 core of however many cores your CPUs have, and GPU means 40% of it at best. To add insult to injury, the 40% GPU utilization rendering is about as slow as 1 CPU core. Are you kidding me, dumb f__s?

I have no idea to which shithole Adobe outsources its development, but their, quote, developers, unquote, can't write code, and their QA can't test. Google for "adobe media encoder uses one core" and you get whole reddit threads and stack exchange Q&A dedicated in finding workarounds to the painfully slow rendering process.

Bottom line is, this problem has a configuration solution. Yes, as simple as that: create an INI file, write a few lines into it, and save it under Adobe product install folders. The dumb f___s at Adobe did not bother making all-core rendering a default. They prefer the world waste megawatts of energy and pay electric bills for essentially idling our PCs. Now, you scumbag elites, shut up about green shit!

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Who's next?

I never write about politics because I do not give two shits about things I do not get paid for, but now I humorously want to ask a political question: who's next?

The reason being that Russian and Ukrainian sellers on Ebay had flaked on me, and now they fight a war. It could have been nothing, but a Chinese and a Taiwanese companies had flaked me on as well, and in a most bizarre and cruel manner possible. So...

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CentOS follows Fedora into the trashcan

Having raised issues about Fedora to its "support forum" and been told that Fedora is likely not for me because I am not fond of its machine-gun release and end-of-lifing schedules, I was told to look at CentOS with its supposedly more conservative releases. Ha-ha!

No sound. Yes, you read it right: no sound from a modern laptop with the latest CentOS Stream 9. The sound device is not detected (it is a very common Realtek). Bizarre? Yes. Any solutions? None. Only some attempts by users to solve it, here and there. And now I learn that even pulsaudio monstrocity was not bad enough: CentOS now uses some piece of trash called PipeWire. WTF is it? Another malware layer above ALSA? Hell knows, but it just does not work no matter what. When will this madness end?

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Microsoft developers are indeed certifiable cretins

VPN: Sometimes, I drop my connection, due to unforeseeable circumstances beyond my control.

Outlook: Your password is wrong. I will wait for you to double-click that status bar area, to re-try the same password.

Seriously, Microsoft? This is the best you can do? Any college student can come up with a method of detecting a VPN connection, but not a trillion-dollar-worth trans-national corporation.

But wait! MS sells mice... A-ha, we are onto something here!

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