• Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • AFineWayToDie [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    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.

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    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.

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      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.