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Not all reddit alt history is bad (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

get home from work in the United Soviet States of America in 2024

thirty hour weeks are tough, but I get more vacation days than most people in order to make up for it

boot up my home PC, an Electronika 9100 XMT

it's located in my garage, in a standard rack mount along with its standard power source and network components

head to the terminal in my living room to actually use it

computer monitor makes a satisfying hum as it comes to life

see the logo for the default OS pop up

it's a Linux distribution maintained by the Computing Centre of the Academy of Sciences

it's good enough

go into Firefox, log onto my favorite website

it's called Hexbear, it's a pretty standard BBCode forum

see that I have a private message

a comrade is calling me a revisionist

they sent me a picture of a pig pooping on its balls

[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

please let this be a new site tagline

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

lets-fucking-go

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

I'm honored

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Utopian

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago

sicko-wistful

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

fidel-salute-big

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

same as it ever was same as it ever was

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

my garage

😐

Ryazanov didn't die for this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I mean you gotta do something with the space once cars are made unnecessary

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I'm feeling a melancholy nostalgia for an alternate history that never was