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rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoAfter W2K I didn’t like XP all that much, it felt slower and was too “Chinese-looking” (how it could be said in my language in those years). Now I’m nostalgic over chromecore aesthetic and that look, silver Game Boy, silver PS2, silver SW Phantom Menace interiors. Or matte black as an alternative, too looking very cool. Or at least that “normal” matte white. But in UIs - XP felt a bit too much, tiring for my eyes. Still, XP with default blue theme and jump-to-lightspeed wallpaper is what home and nostalgie are for me.
graff@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Never heard that phrase before. What language might that be if you don’t mind me asking?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, in Russia in early 00s (my childhood) they’d say that about things looking like Chinese toys of cheap plastic. As in “Chinese means cheap, but low-quality and probably a toy”. Such things were indeed mostly produced in China, so. It’s rather that back then you’d sometimes have better things, now everything is like this.
moakley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In English we used to use the word “Scotch”, like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Scotch tape is a brand name.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And the phonetic transcription of that is how we still call that in Russian.
Well, with “Chinese” in Russian it didn’t stick. I’m somewhat sad, I think certain political conditions also make the Russian language poorer and weaker with time. In 00s I, despite being autistic, could somewhat “feel the wave” of the people around me. Now it just … feels as if someone tracks and tries to slowly kill all the good things, as if just being in control is not enough for those people.
graff@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Ah. Thanks, that’s insightful :)