

you have strugatsky bros and ilf and petrov, which are semi known (first chapters of the little golden calf are just funny for car brain emergence). Also, i believe there are tons of books about ww2/civil war. sholohov is somewhat famous soviet author (apparently even got nobel, for whatever that’s worth)
Any book that doesn’t do “soviet bad” won’t get any acclaim in the west, that seems self evident.
maybe it is hdd sleep issue? it dumps file into ram, hdd idles, sleeps, laptop disconnects (due to some arcane parameter), it queries it, then it takes time to spin? does same thing happens if you actively do other stuff on hdd (opening/closing file every 2 min for example)?
oh damn its gddr7 as well, yeah, 3k senses are tingling. Scientists will buy them before gamers
2k cost incoming
that seems wildly cheap lol, to kill linux gaming alone is probably worth them 50 billion or more, ignoring money printing from steam store itself
So like, where do they lose money?
So guess russians will have to maintain their own fork of the kernel, and do their stuff on it? 🤷 as I’ve understood, they are (mainly or wholly) driver maintainers for some russian hardware