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LOL FEMTANYL… true femtanyl fans know that if the soviet union didnt collapse she would never produce girl hell 1999…
femtanylites represent
I have a years long running joke about how the soviet i-phone would be a huge brick with all parts user serviceable in the field, terrible ergo, but it’d get five bars on the dark side of the moon.
Given that modern phones are already giving me RSIs, fuck it, brick phone let’s go
I’m confused about what this saying, is it about warcrime waifus but with Soviet aesthetics, or are they saying Windows and computers in general wouldn’t have changed to be so bloated and anti-user, or…?
I would have liked to have known what having active Soviets in the 1995-2015 era of early internet social media and forums would have been like. I feel like we’re suppose to be getting that experience from China soon, but hasn’t really manifested yet.
Most people know about the Eternal September, basically when AOL flooded the internet with so many new users the old members were pissed off about it. You could say the 2010+ era of Android and iPhone was another Eternal September. The presence of most average americans on the internet is the key that made most exploitative practices viable from IRL to follow them into the internet. A lot of us recognize the enshitification of the recent internet.
I’m looking forward to when China and/or 3rd world give us a 3rd Eternal September. Interesting to see the United States make their own Great Firewall (starting with tiktok?) and finding new ways to suppress poorpinions (e.g. Twitter Blue). I wonder if the US will succeed in preventing the 3rd Eternal September? It’s great to see that US-style free speech and US-style Democracy was all a farce. So much uncertainty for the next decade.
I’m confused about what this saying, is it about warcrime waifus but with Soviet aesthetics, or are they saying Windows and computers in general wouldn’t have changed to be so bloated and anti-user, or…?
Pretty sure it’s implying that if the Soviets won the Cold War, technological innovation would’ve been so limited by ebul socialist interference in the market that we’d only reach the late 90’s level of computer “advancement” in our timeline in the 2020’s in the Soviet timeline.
Ah yes, “progress” is when you have to learn microsoft’s new single-platform GUI toolkit every 5 years, and the latest one is just a website pretending to be an application.
I think they just like 90s aesthetic and anime and put it in their project.
I love the Windows 95 aesthetic. Yeah, it looks old and janky. But you KNOW it works and won’t pull some bullshit update on you or harvest your data.
2024: General Secretary Vlodymyr “Ringo Starr” Lenin (no relations) announces the launch of a new cryptocurrency, Khrushchev Koin, in honor of the fourth leader of the USSR and his secret speech announcing his crush for former leader Joseph Stalin.
Wow, Mao was right. The USSR were revisionists!
>reddit alt history
>anime brainworms
Seems about right.
me malding at the people here thinking it’s Windows 95 when it’s obviously Windows 2000
Did windows 2000 even have much market penetration for home users?
It was more related to server versions of Windows than home versions, you were supposed to using ME.
This is ugly as shit, I take great offense to the idea that soviets would be using windows 95 instead of patching KDE2 under FreeBSD.
why would they use something that doesn’t give the finger to capitalists - ie the GPL. look at them mald every time the license comes up. every corporation I’ve ever worked at either sweats bullets when the GPL comes up or legal just bans it.
Soviets would have something like BeOS
DPRK is running its own Linux distro, so maybe Soviets would do something similar.
it’s the people’s OS
Me sneaking USBs inside the totalitarian bad korea but its a bootable drive of Debian
as well as a full mirror of the Debian package archives.It’s real btw, you can buy cds containing the full debian archive of packages
HaikuOS would be called Gogol and there would be libs acting like the Soviets are just copying america like they’re doing with literally every Chinese IT service/project.
Somehow an atheist version of TempleOS
there was a guy who would post really high effort but weird shit like “what if televisions were invented in the 1820s” or “what if cavemen had their own country” and it was never 100% clear if he was doing a bit or not and he wound up getting hounded off of the sub by users who were mad that he was actually making good stuff and not just more dumb maps
it was this guy
some of my favorites:
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/s2l9i0/1853_zachary_taylor_makes_4_new_states_timeline/ the tv one i was remembering
