Has the global IT said 'to hell with multimedia' in 2024?

Microsoft broke the Outlook's new email notification sound. Check.

Linux replaced any sounds with burps, pops, and cracks, and videos with sound now freeze both browsers and video players. Check.

Oracle broke 3D acceleration in VirtualBox. Check.

All in 2024. Is this a new trend: to reverse the last 30 years of progress in the IT industry?

Hello! This is 2025, and we lost sounds, video, and 3D accel. Congratulations, humankind!

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Commercialization of VirtualBox in 3, 2, 1

Seeing all of this shit that is going on with VB, I will not be surprised if it suddenly becomes a commercial product tomorrow. This is why this ugly new logo and stuff. And the discontinuation of 3D acceleration under Linux (Or maybe even under Windows? Anyone?) is troubling.

Do I give a damn? Nope. I am almost entirely under HyperV and VmWare anyway, migrating last VMs off this putrid mess.

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Just when you think it can't get any worse, VirtualBox breaks 3D acceleration

After today's Fedora upgrade, VB can no longer run Linux VMs with 3D acceleration. The VM simply crashes with the VirtualBox's signature generic error NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) which tells nothing of the root cause. Genius is as genius does: usually as a degenerate. Such is the VirtualBox team as well.

Go to the logs folder to find just as cryptic VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 261 error. It means that 3D acceleration is not supported. How come, turds? It was supported moments ago? And why the fuck do you crash the machine? I guess crashing is the universal answer 42 to all of their users' needs these days: crash everything and giggle from the ruins.

I warned you, turds: soon you will be hunted with hoes and chopped to pieces.

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I am afraid that FOSS developers will have to go into hiding soon

There is a clever but deceitful slogan out there: with great power comes great responsibility. FOSS developers butchered and mutilated it, in their minds, and they deem themselves cerberae of the universe, in a sense that they put security over usability.

This manifest itself in perpetual breaking changes in FOSS that rushes to remove obsolete encryption cyphers, algorithms, methods, etc. as soon as someone invisible somewhere pronounces them obsolete/compromised/bad.

Meanwhile, not due to the presence of obsolete cyphers but due to sheer stupidity of human beings, hundreds of million of PII records get stolen by "hackers", wink-wink, every year.

It is about humans, stupid, not about software! If humans are stupid, which they are, then vulnerabilities much wider than that of offered by obsolete cyphers will always exist. But no, FOSS "community" does not care of reason. All they care of is staying on the bleeding edge.

And so they rip out old cyphers and inevitably break connections to anything other than bleeding edge Windows 11 or whatnot. They do not give a fuck that there are previous LTS operating systems and hardware devices out there that need the old, obsolete cyphers.

Dudes, soon you will not be able to go outside because people with box cutters will be waiting to slash you across your faces.

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Another Linux lie: we have a DB server

Truth is: you don't.

Imagine that you run MySQL on a device that does not have luxury of hypervisors or VM snapshots, such as Raspberry PI or a smart TV or whatnot, anything that is not as bloated as a Windows/Linux server. Everything is fine until your device decides to crash.

No problem, says you and whip out the DB recovery page from Oracle. It tells you to restore DB from backup, as the most straightforward recovery path, something along the lines of mysql -u user -p password dbname < backup.sql. Not so fast!

Your server crashed, damaged the DB, and now it does not start, so nothing is listening on port 3306, and the above command does not work. Should it have occurred to the genius FOSS developers of MySQL that this situation is possible? You would have thunk it should but it has not.

The only way to restore BAU for a crashed MySQL instance that FUBARed its DB is to uninstall, blow away the data folder, and reinstall. Genius is as genius does: usually as a degenerate. I pity any organization that runs on MySQL and will NEVER take a job for one of them.

Now, let us think about this situation from an ordinary, reasonable person's POV: should the server refuse to come up because it's DB is damaged? Fuck, no! The server should come up regardless, to allow the recovery commands to be run. But this simple thought does not occur to geniuses, sadly.

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When I saw the crappy new GUI of Virtualbox 7, I knew trouble awaits

All of their efforts are not worth the sound of its typing on their keyboards, as soon as I saw that crap. And I was right. Now, the main window of VB freezes when I try to close it after starting a VM. Was it worth it, assholes?

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Microsoft goes full-on rapist and changes the UI of Teams

Microsoft is a corporation with FOSS habits. It charges $$ for Teams but behaves like a bunch of yahoos and changes its UI rather rapidly.

As soon as everyone learned Teams meeting functionality and became comfortable with it, they changed it beyond recognition. Dudes, are you for real? If you do not want your stock price to plummet very soon, then fire the one who changed the Teams UI and immediately, urgently roll back all of the UI changes you've made in over 2024 and 2025.

Otherwise I guarantee you that your stock will be in a free fall soon. Do not weep then.

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Guess who broke Nuget.Server project?

Check out this happy face: Zverev Eugene

This is the degenerate who introduced a complete show-stopper bug in Microsoft's Nuget Server and released it without testing, thus breaking personal, on-premise Nuget servers for the whole world.

Am I the only one who sees a problem with this whole situation? I have been, for decades, but Linus only woke up a few weeks ago. So, who is a genius now? And who is a degenerate?

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Legacy of the fags

Whatever is a brain-child of fags is a monstrosity. So is Stack Exchange. I am fucking dreading going there for answers because every bloody time I have a difficult problem and need to reach out to supposedly experts for answers, some degenerates converge on my questions and spout all sorts of shit: their telepathic abilities, propaganda, lies, unfounded theories, personal insults, and other kinds of putrid crap.

Meanwhile, the two founder fags do nothing but bang each other in their bungholes, having outsourced the self-governing of SE to all kinds of agenda-driven shadow actors. Isn't this wonderful? So, I end up not going there because it causes nothing but frustration. What a wonderful world they have built!

Let's admit the obvious and come to terms with the inevitable: SE has outlived itself. It's time to burn it down. Unfortunately, someone was right when he wrote: every organization sooner rather than later becomes the opposite of its stated goal and a caricature on itself. For SE, this has come too soon, which proves that the original design was flawed. From the site for professional questions and answers it turned into a forum for telepaths and trolls from their moms' basements.

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You know they are fucked when

in order to show Nuget packages installed in a project/solution or to uninstall some of them, Visual Studio needs Internet access.

Fuck, Nadella, you are dumb deisi shit!

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Congratulations, everyone! VirtualBox 7.1.4 hangs

Never before had I problems with VB hanging. Not until now.

The new VB, the one in which the terminally genius FOSS developers redrew the icons from the historically recognizable blue box to the obscene, disorderly new orange-blue hieroglyph, hangs its main window after a machine starts up.

This is what the lack of oversight does to FOSS developers: it makes them irresponsible, the feat that we, commercial IT professionals cannot afford.

When will they learn? When airplanes will begin to fall from the skies? Ah, I forgot: that has already begun.

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Another Linux lie: we have a CRM

Truth is: you don't.

Enter Wordpress, a "too many cooks spoil the broth" project.

Font Awesome, idiots, Font Awesome is the de-facto standard for icon graphics on the Internet, since like 10 years ago. How about working gracefully with it, Wordpress? No, never heard of it!

The terminally genius degenerates from Wordpress development "community" butcher post and page HTML by simply wiping out FA tags. You spend time arranging them around your pages only to save and find out that none of them appear. Genius is as genius does, usually as a degenerate.

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Another Linux lie: we have a DB server

Need to do some PostgreSQL work and think why not give Linux a chance? Really, what can possibly go wrong? So I head over to PostgreSQL::Fedora Docs and read up on the installation and configuration steps.

I'll spare you the boring details of how I followed everything to the letter and jump to action right away: neither remotely nor locally can I connect to the instance other than under the default postgres user. Anyone else gets

postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL:  role root does not exist

Dudes, how do you manage to FUBAR everything you touch? Why does it simply work under Windows? So, what do you think my solution is? Hell, yeah, it is to spin up another Windows VM. And your cherished, beloved Linux goes into trashcan. Fuck, you are obtuse.

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