One network that is easy to get into for westerners who don't have good Mandarin skills is 快手 "Kuaishou", it's just like TikTok with a few more features. It seems like it's a more rural/2/3rd tier city focused as opposed to Douyin. I also like 小红书 (little red book LOL) which is kind of like Instagram but not garbage. The aforementioned Bilibili is good, and of course WeChat. Accessing them in your browser, you can use translation plugins also for easier use.
This pic is unfortunately from the excellent movie "Athena", which came out last year, but is eerily similar to what is currently happening now in France.
I listened to the Putin speech where he referenced 1917. I know he's not a fan of the Bolsheviks, but it seems he took issue with the violence of the civil war and the incompetence of the Empire than the actions of the Bolsheviks, at least that's my reading of it.
I do dual boot linux on a laptop i have that is 10 years old (linux mint). I would consider myself 'intermediate' when it comes to knowledge of software and stuff, and I mostly find Linux pretty frustrating to use beyond simply browsing the web, it feels like there is always a byzantine process to do stuff that Windows can do easily without hassle. Not that I really like Windows at all. Otherwise, I'd use it all the time.
this is web 3.0? looks more like web 1.0. not that i'm complaining, i like it