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I have found that in Adobe After Effects, the best way to make complex movement for an object is to use parenting. So, I made two complex movement paths by attaching a moving object to differently moving parents. But now I want to combine those two movement paths (or trajectories, […]

I have Google Chrome installed on a M2 MacBook Pro running macOS 15.6.1. I’ve configured Chrome to prompt for the download location whenever I download a file. On my older Intel MacBook, whenever I would choose a destination folder, Chrome would “remember” the destination folder on subsequent downloads until I […]

When I run : $ env -i /bin/bash --norc @bash-5.2$ PS1='$ ' @$ There is an at sign (@) at the beginning of the prompt. This happened recently, in CMD windows and in Windows Terminal.

When I press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Winkey then release it, M365 Copilot pops up. I have other shortcuts that use those modifiers, so sometimes I hold those modifiers in expectations that I might or might not need to use a different shortcut. If I don’t press any letters and release the modifiers, the […]

FFmpeg has a bitstream filter called hevc_mp4toannexb to extract the annex-b formatted video from any container like MP4, MKV, etc. ffmpeg -i INPUT.mkv -codec copy -bsf:v hevc_mp4toannexb OUTPUT.hevc But I couldn’t find any filter or method in the docs to do the opposite of it, that is, mux an existing […]

As a user clicks on cells on the left column, the text values are appended to the cell on the right. excel screencap

This is a peculiar issue. I cannot get a Oneplus Nord 2 smartphone to connect over USB, but only for the ports on the back of the PC (on the IO shield that is – I do have a PCI-E card with extra USB 3 A and C ports, and […]