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This is a summary of an interesting feature of China law. When a company does something bad, officials of the company may be subject to "consumption restrictions". They cannot:

1. Travel by airplane
2. Choose soft berth (yet hard seat or hard berth is allowed) when traveling by ordinary train
3. Travel by G-series trains (i.e. the high-speed railway) and the first-class seats and above of other D-series trains (yet the second-class seat is allowed)
4. Choose a second class or better cabin when traveling by ship
5. High-level consumption in star-rated hotels, nightclubs, golf courses, and other places
6. Purchase real estate or build, expand or luxuriously decorate houses
7. Lease high-end office buildings, hotels, apartments, or other places for business operation
8. Purchase vehicles not necessary for business operation
9. Take a vacation
10. Send his or her children to high-cost private schools
11. Pay high premiums for insurance and/or wealth management products
12. Other consumption not necessary for livelihood and work

It's part of China's new "social credit" system. It's sort of like conditions of probation, but does not require a criminal conviction. Merely being a high official of a company in violation is enough.

Enforcement works something like the US "no fly" list. People on "consumption restriction" can't buy a ticket, board an aircraft, or stay in some hotels. It's purely a punishment for rich people. If you're poor, you'd never notice.

Should this be a feature of US law, perhaps a condition of probation in white collar cases?

Is the famous Bistro.glb file available somewhere in Github large file storage? It's too big for main Github, and I don't want to store it on my quota. If it's in Github, then "cargo test" can run it for anybody. which is convenient for development.

After about 25 years, I need to replace the batteries in my HP 11C.

I know it takes three SR44 coin cells, but which one to buy for long life? Probably not the alkaline cell Amazon Basics offers. Who has coin cells as good as the originals?

Iranian position, from Axios:

>Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, reported that Iran's text "stresses the necessity of lifting U.S. sanctions, ending the war on all fronts" and ensuring Iranian management of the Strait of Hormuz. According to the report, Iran demanded an immediate end to the U.S. naval blockade upon signing.The response maintains the proposed format of an initial memorandum of understanding (MOU) followed by 30 days of negotiations, but insists on lifting U.S. sanctions related to Iranian oil sales during that 30-day window, Tasnim reported.Iran also demanded the release of frozen assets upon the initial signing of the MOU.

Trump reply:

>"I don't like it".

Previous US position (from Axios) here. Both sides are no closer to agreement than last week.

It's rather difficult to find one news article that has the positions of both sides.

Similar problem to that reported 2 years ago. Editing worked fine, can play the video in the editor, but export produces an audio-only file. Tried MP4 and WEBM exports. Even tried MPEG1. Audio only.

Running on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS. OpenShot-v3.5.1-x86_64.AppImage download from OpenShot site.

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"**OpenShot Version Info**

Version: 3.5.1 | libopenshot: 0.7.0

Build: OpenShot-v3.5.1-release-candidate-15816-b9b5c882-48516e0b | Released: 2026-04-05

OS: Ubuntu 24.04

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor (12 threads) | RAM: 31 GB

Cache: Memory, 250 MB, 600 frames, ahead 70%, pre-roll 24/48

Performance: Threads: OMP 12 | FFmpeg 8, Cards: Decode: None (0) | Encode: 0

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Reset everything to defaults. No change.

Tried reading the exported files with OpenShot itself as a test. Same result: Audio, no video.

Tried exporting to older OpenShot-v3.4.0-x86_64.AppImage - same result. So it's probably NOT a problem with the OpenShot version.

Exporter is set to "Export video and audio".

I've used OpenShot many times before without seeing this.