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.
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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.
They don't bother activating his PCs anymore. He always gets frustrated and throws out the Windows.
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?
Surprise! He’s not.
It's "voting", that's why he's projected to win with 101.2% votes
They need just that vote anyway, it will count for every ~~citizen~~ comrade 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.
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
Everybody knows it’s a dictatorship
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
"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.
What are the odds this is just a JavaScript button that goes nowhere?
Why so bloated? Just write <button>, or <input type="submit">
href="javascript:void(0);"
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.