rottingleaf

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.