Red star os is a much better and safer choice for him.
Plot twist: it’s not connected to the Internet. He has a button labeled “PRESS TO WIN ELECTION” installed in his dacha.
Does Russia have online voting? Oof
It’s easy when you can just make up the results
With all the Russian piracy sites, I assume nobody in Russia actually pays for software. I figure they just haven’t gotten around to cracking that machine yet.
I was in Turkey 25 years ago. Their tram system used the Windows warning “BLING” before calling out the station.
I was there last year, and when you go to charge your tram card in the machine, everyone of them has a “This version of Windows is unathorized. Click here to buy a license” message in the bottom left of the screen.
Gotta love the Turks.
This wasn’t the case before 2022, but after MS no longer officially selling licenses in Russia, it’s everyone again.
But it’s different, for things you can’t license because of sanctions piracy is seen as normal, for other things nobody cares, but people stopped pirating.
In general, the ex-Soviet culture of not understanding copyright violations as real crime at all, period, is gone. It’s a few tech-savvy people, sometimes older, and “pirate party” idealists, and communists (not all of them by far).
Those Russian piracy sites are, as a rule, banned in Russia. They mostly started 20+ years ago.
However, those doing copyright protection in Russia are mostly former pirates who legalized their business via some acquaintances. Oops. I also doubt that Aldebaran (the e-book library), for example, licensed all of the books they give for a buck from authors, and with LitRes it’s also highly unlikely. There are plenty of other such Russian paid e-book libraries, movie sites and so on.
It’s a common opinion in Russia that there’s some western “rule of law” which, if applied to Russia, could fix it, I think it’s the other way around, the main problem with Russia’s society is the inferiority complexes, the “rule of law” one among them, leading people to overlook brakes and feedbacks existing in the wild to good effect, when deciding what they want “fixed” and “civilized” to be good.
That “rule of law” idea sometimes leads to following laws set by people who just don’t understand what “acting in good faith” means.
EDIT: What I meant is that piracy situation in Russia is close to what’s it’s in the western countries now, except for sanctions. Younger people pirate, but not all of them. Older and middle age people often see piracy as something bad and shameful. In the “nobody in Russia pays for software” times it was the other way around, most people didn’t understand the concept, and younger and more fashionable people had some licensed copies to boast and would tell their acquaintances that actually it’s very cool to buy official copies, pay for software, give it back to authors, and that otherwise it’d be theft and those people whose names are printed here and here wouldn’t really approve, to say the least.
as it should be
They don’t bother activating his PCs anymore. He always gets frustrated and throws out the Windows.
The umbrellas slow the descent for a soft landing.
Then he has a nice, relaxing cup of tea.
Been a long minute since I looked at pre-built machines. That’s a Dell All-in-One. I had to look that up. I’m glad I did, I was about to make a stupid comment that it’s a Dell monitor, but no telling what PC it’s attached to.
Considering they don’t know about massgrave.dev to permanently activate their copy and it’s Windows 10, they probably also don’t know about extended W10 EOL updates, which means that computer likely hasn’t received a security update since October, 2025.
Based on the rumors about putin and his paranoia, I’d assume that computer is not connected to the internet lol
How is he online voting then?
The vote goes to himself. No need for an online detour.
Surprise! He’s not.
It’s “voting”, that’s why he’s projected to win with 101.2% votes
“Do not worry, your vote will be counted. Even if you didn’t cast it!”
Look, if you want to cast one vote then Russian hardware can handle it just fine, but if you have to cast thousands, that needs something faster.
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They need just that vote anyway, it will count for every
citizencomrade too.Stop pretending that Russia is communist. Russia wasn’t even communist when it was the USSR, it sure as shit ain’t communist now
Don’t think that’s what was being done here.
Everybody knows it’s a dictatorship
What was that whole collective farming thing they were trying at then? I know Stalin was just taking advantage of the whole thing, but Kruschev et al were definitely trying at socialism, albeit failing miserably.
It sure as hell isn’t a democracy either
Why are you comparing an economic concept and a form of representation concept
Because Soviet communism, and most national implementations of communism around the world, are a combination of system of government and economic model
Okay, but then we also have to stop pretending that the USA is a democracy.
It’s just as much of a distortion of the terms
What are the odds this is just a JavaScript button that goes nowhere?
href="javascript:void(0);"Why so bloated? Just write
<button>, or<input type="submit">
At first glance I thought the story was going to be Putin illegally voting in US midterms to give backing to Trump’s efforts to undermine them. One autocrat doing a solid for another. Trump could probably get Dell or even Tim Apple to hook up a new ‘puter for the Putin’.
John Apple, now. Bruh, I’m old…
I feel you… my first home computer was an Apple ][
He cast one vote to the Russian elections and same time a few million to upcoming American elections. And he gets to push the button as many times as he likes.
Lol, the funny thing is if they had any money left, they could have made a comedic/serious show-off video of him voting on like the war strategy wall sized projected computer with a clicker instead of showing him struggling to see the screen and struggling to move the mouse.
Thinking about the videos he tends to put out about himself, and that he signed off on this one, just shows it’s the best they could do to make him seem manly and powerful now.
