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It’s easier to ingest than the way I speak ;-)

Just griping a bit about what’s probably more of a design/branding change than anything.

I think fakespot is promising tech that we desperately need more of.

Can’t hurt to have it in their hands, hope to see more server resources ;-)

Sorry… busy day and I’m going to need a real computer for this 😅

RE Free… nothing really, just being bitter. I’m not a huge fan of a lot of the little tie-ins like Pocket, but I respect the hustle… if not the business plan.

The Amazon review thing they bought is Fakespot™, check it out if you shop on Amazon. Here the Ai nonsense is just some summaries of the reviews it digested… not inherently bad, but the whole experience is painfully slow. Still. Well worth checking out if you haven’t.

Shady dude gets a 📌 for now. Sorry. Time.

If you check out Fakespot you can’t miss it. Have yet to try the browser integration, although I have enabled it for some reason…  

Yeah, probably I’m pretty bad at spelling stuff ☺️

I think she’s got the shoes from the intro to True Detective Season 1 😎

My dudes… Dr. Strange is my new neighbor!

She’s a veteran… but I’m kind of an animal so I figure it should be OK 😎

Also; 2 cats, one of which is definitely smarter than the average bear… the other, is orange.

In retrospect… yes.

I offered the story as a kind of parable (except not because I didn’t make it up) or random data point if you will, on pissing standing up.

I’m afraid I really have no answers for you… but then again I don’t think I’m your survey pool.

But I did once stay at a small hotel in Germany that had a sticker imploring male guess to sit and pee. I pissed all over that poor toilet before we left.

15 years later I feal guilt but also righteous indignation. I really hate being told what to do apparently… even when there are good reasons like another human being, asking you to not make their life hard 😞

Yeah, as I said, most factories closed by the end of the 70s, but some operated till the USSR dissolved.

My mind is suitably blown :-) I remember seeing some of the “newer” segmented style tubes in a train ticket machine (probably late 70’s erra manufacture) here in Oakland, California, USA back in the late 90s or very early 00s. Probably not of Russian manufacture, though ;-)

The system wasn't that bad to be honest... at least not in Yugoslavia. USSR was a different story. We had all the perks of the west with none of the obligations. Of course, you can't compete with the western tech markets (yes, we did try that, look up Zastava, Yugo, Iskra, Gorenje)

Don’t sell yourselves short, Yogo’s were very well known here! ;-) … yeah, it’s still rigged pretty well.

There are other open forums, free for registration. I could look up the URLs if you want, I have them in a plain text file on my PC (I'm on my phone right now), some are also good, like vinafix for example (not ex USSR, but still good, it's Vietnamese). I haven't visited them in years though, things might have changed. I started working in IT and just lost interest in that... no money, no point in doing it. Hardware is dirt cheap nowadays.

Yes please, but feel free to do it at your convenience. I have yet to check out the first few you offered — although I will by weeks end. To many projects, as always :-) I’m going to look up the other big companies you mentioned as well. I was born in ‘77 so I missed the coldest days of the Cold War… but I have an irresistible fascination with the evolution of technology… especially these parallel worlds that developed in countries on both sides. Objects that are both instantly familiar but also “alien” in design, not the greatest example but phones are probably the most familiar examples.

Anyway… it’s been delightful chatting the last few days. I hope we can keep the conversation going, but for now I have one or more work tables to excavate ;-)

Really? It just seems like the NOS stockpile is endless… though I had read somewhere that there was still a factory operating in the early 90’s… guess you did say most.

Doorknob operators, love it! 😊 And thanks for the explanation, Mr. Ellness (which I’m almost certainly misspelling) really couldn’t articulate the reason behind it, nor did his “minder” offer any explanation.

Hopefully I didn’t come off as glorifying the system, it certainly wasn’t my intention to do so.

Thanks for the recommendations! I vaguely remember Louis Rossman video (back when you made repair videos) where he sort of flashed the watermark on the screen for a second. Always thought I would go back and find that video, never did :-)

IDK… I would have liked to visit in the 80’s or something like that; peek Soviet propaganda, factories still churning out Nixie tubes by the truckload because it was part of the last 5 year plan. Jr. Highschool history teacher visited, said they employ old ladies in the Moscow subway to watch the escalators just because everyone needed a job.

So uh… what Soviet electronics forums should we be visiting OP?