I also like the psp

I like it too. I’ve even made a few calls with the Skype version for it.

Lots of Star Wars and Forgotten Realms and Russian fantasy books and lots of porn stories have been read in its web browser.

The music player felt nice.

In general, I feel like that’s how “smartphones” should be.

I meant - submitting water counters’ data and such via their website and paying there. It’s not about payments themselves.

Also with a few commodity ICs one can make a decent hobbyist PC, sort of late 80s style, maybe even with Amiga-like co-processors for some tasks.

Haven’t done anything like that. Actually I’m terrified with Altium Designer’s workflow, not talking about less sugared things.

But the thought of having a kinda functional machine from components with much less centralized production feels good.

Learn from stealing ane copying ? Meh.

Learn some respect, first of all, - China has had quite a few developmental achievements historically.

Learn that intellectual property is a less certain case than material property. Especially intellectual property in cases where there’s only one way to do something.

Learn that if you steal and copy well enough, you can dominate or replace those you steal and copy from. Say, Spanish is not the dominant language on this planet, because the rest of Europe was stealing and copying well enough. Say, western Roman Empire ended, because peoples under its influence were stealing and copying well enough to go on without such a hegemon.

Learn that there’s no end of history and sometimes you have to be more cunning.

Learn that you are stupid and if you don’t know how to do things right, find the way to do them somehow, it’s better than nothing.

A lot of things.

Second is completely unrelated

Well, it’s related in my PoV.

(but also false btw)

We are discussing this in English, mostly American English at that.

Yandex is a good example, VK - I’m not certain of that.

Anyway, what I meant is that such kind of social rating needs to source data from somewhere. That means integration with quite a lot of systems built for the Russian state, which often suck a lot. It’s normal that half the time remote payments for utilities don’t work, for example.

I mean, yeah, they can. But if it’s going to be some nation-wide system for the government, the bureaucracy will practically kill this.

By “more complex” I meant making other operations slower (EDIT: and harder to understand) for somebody using it, so - not this example.

Especially given that the tech is always changing.

Humans don’t. Changing things is fine, making using them more complex for the same result, because another decade has passed, is not.

“engineering” is becoming just gluing together and managing cloud services and features.

Temporarily becoming.

Just like China had some social and cultural changes since being closed and till the Opium wars.

Systems are built around people and limited by what a human can conceive and make work. We don’t evolve that fast.

Also dependency on big centers has led to catastrophes in the past and will lead to those again.

It will all crash with a huge bang.

I’m confident of this, anyone who wants may call me a luddite.

It’s likely both. A compromise between hoping to build something real in the half-assed world that is Russia, and between wish to protest against its half-assed totalitarianism.

That’s probably the inspiration, but like hell they’ll manage to actually build something as functional.

The reason why I never wanted a gun in my house is because of looking at the statistics of who is by far the most likely to get shot by that gun. [Either me or my spouse.]

Ah. Same here. Though I can’t get a legal one here anyway, because Russian laws make no difference between ADHD, ASD and schizophrenia for the purpose of getting a permit.

I misunderstood that “anti-gun personally”, cause not wanting a gun in your own house doesn’t mean being anti-gun. One thing is about whether the choice is on your side or on the government’s, the other is what would you choose.

Some people choose the pleasure of ridiculing their opponents over being a little bit more certain that they won’t regret later when shit hits the fan.

Correction - you should believe them that such will happen when nobody else but them has knives and they are certain they won’t get a scratch while it’s happening. Until then they’ll be very afraid.

The dangerous part is that the fact that they are cowards may over time become more notable than the fact that they really want this.

I mean, when somebody says a threat of such kind in a situation which doesn’t yet warrant it, it’s clear they are cowards.

Make no mistake - that bloodshed they want to be done by police, national guard and such. Not their own supporters. Cause no person who says such things first wants to be shot back at.

I hope you do realize that this means you’ve been wrong all the time. Because the main political argument for gun ownership is such events exactly.

OK, well, that certainly should be illegal.

Wtf are you talking about, there are dozens of them, its literally a huge network of cables.

There are places connected by only one or two and there are issues with load in case a lucky combination of those gets sabotaged etc.

I’m not sure of that really working, hasn’t been tested after all. Shootouts on the streets don’t lead to everyone getting shot. So, say, US warns “everybody big” that they are nuking someplace, but don’t want to nuke anyone else. If “everybody big” are kinda fine with it, they won’t launch nukes in response. That means there’s a place nuked and no MAD.

That’s more of a joking tone, if it happens, it happens anyway.

Well, there’s a good side to this - at least the recipe of that totally not poisonous green cocktail will be available from logs.