• Spez@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    I bet they will release some rebranded chinese android console with a shitload of cracked games and call it a day.

  • orclev@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Ah yes, the Blyatbox. I guess we’re going back to cold war era Russia where all their stuff is just worse blatantly reverse engineered copies of stuff from other countries. Makes sense, Putin for some reason has really had a hard-on for recreating cold war era Russia.

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      3 months ago

      stuff is just worse blatantly reverse engineered copies

      The reason they only had reverse-engineered copies is because the bigwigs at the CPSU decided that the workers didn’t need personal computers, despite the fact that all the computer research facilities in the USSR (of which there were plenty) recommended that they do.

      If the USSR had thrown it’s weight behind personal computing we could have had some interesting shit.

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        3 months ago

        People don’t realize that the USSR was actually ahead of the USA and Europe in certain fields they decided to put effort in…

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          Sure, when you can force the workforce to do a thing, that thing tends to get done. But they’ll probably do it slower than if they chose to do it. So other things will suffer if they force a certain initiative.

          And that’s what we saw in the USSR. Certain initiatives progressed well (space program, nuclear program, etc), while others suffered (food production, basic manufacturing, etc).

  • disconnectikacio@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    In orbanistan (hungary) occuppied by soviets for 40 years (but even today orban is in the pocket of putin), we have a joke: “the problem with soviet/russian microelectronics: the product does not fit through the factory gate”