chapotraphouse

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

>reddit alt history

>anime brainworms

Seems about right.

LOL FEMTANYL... true femtanyl fans know that if the soviet union didnt collapse she would never produce girl hell 1999....

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

me malding at the people here thinking it's Windows 95 when it's obviously Windows 2000

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.

My Alt History is what modern Bluegrass would be like if Don Reno never got drafted in WWII.

What's wrong with this? Win 95 owns.

It's ~~alt~~history, except I'm a cute girl and the cracker states collapsed instead of the USSR.

Ah what a world that would be.

This aesthetic does not bring joy.