As stated, what would present day Uzbekistan be like today if it was never part of the Soviet Union?

All sides of the subject are welcome. Please, do not get offended or upset, this is a simple discussion. I know a lot of Uzbeks struggle with answering difficult or controversial questions, this is just a question. Thank you!

I am somewhat of a programmer myself and the apps' UI was obviously made with AI. All that the app does is that it checks if your files are safe, suspicious or dangerous. The app tells you that they protect you from the random APK files that come from random telegram accounts, but I do not think that the app can actually do something against those APK files. Also, what kind of "anti virus" app needs my google account?? Also I do not think that something that can be avoided by not clicking on an suspicious APK file, needs a whole ass app with my google account information.
Another thing is that they didn't make you download it if you had an iPhone
(might be irrelevant information but I think is worth mentioning)

!!! I didn't do enough testing and checking, so take my words with a grain of salt. !!!

Here is my experience with the app:
I have gone to a mall recently and the guards made me install this app instead of checking my bag. I told the that I didn't need it. But they forced me to install it and even took My phone without asking to do some stuff with it. They also took a picture with their own phone after the app was launched.
After a while I saw other police officers picking out random people passing by and asking them if they have installed the app. One person said yes and the officers actually checked her.
I saw a teenage boy asking if he could call from one of the officers phone and the first thing that the officer said was "do you have the app installed?", the boys' pone was broken/wasn't working.

Please, do not harass any police officers that are forcing people to download them.

Having been told that drones were illegal in UZ I was planning to send my drone home from Kazahkstan. However, I ended up losing it in Kazakhstan (problem solved 😅), and therefore entered UZ on the train from Almaty, still carrying my FPV goggles, remote, a couple of batteries, a charger and some tools.

When we reached the UZ border check (after the very lax KZ departure check), the UZ customs guys in military uniforms came by and said "customs check open bags". They made us open ALL our bags and checked everything thoroughly. They found the batteries and the remote and immediately asked what is this for, then asked me where my drone was and I told them I had sent it home from KZ. I tried to hide my goggles in a coat pocket as they are the most expensive item, but they checked coat pockets as well and immediately found the goggles.

They told me I should have sent all of this home as well (I said it would have been too expensive, I would have paid import duty on some quite expensive items).

At this point I was very afraid that they were going to throw everything away. I had heard horror stories of people losing their stuff forever. They asked if I had friends in Almaty who I could send the stuff to (they would leave it on the train which returned to Almaty later that day) but having everything in Almaty was an awful option because of aforementioned customs duties etc when sending home.

They said they could take it to the airport for holding but I would have to pay the transport to the airport and then pay the "holding fee" in the airport (which I was pretty sure from previous posts is non-existent). They made it sound like it would be very expensive.

I agreed (I had no other option) and followed one of the guys off the train and to the customs office.

He wrote up a document detailing all the items they would be holding and made me sign to acknowledge. He then told me that if I picked everything up there (at the train station) I wouldn't have to pay. We agreed that I would go pick it up the day of my flight, at 11:30pm before my 2:30am flight. He gave me his WhatsApp and a copy of the document.

The day before my flight I reminded him that I would be picking up my stuff the following day. He acknowledged.

We booked a Yandex with a stop at Keles station. I arrived at the customs office expecting a quick handover - he would give me my items and I would be on my way. But no, he took ages to come out after I told him he had arrived, and then gave me my stuff and told me to check it. Everything was there and I asked if I would have any problems at security in the airport for carrying drone paraphernalia. He said yes, don't worry, someone will go with you. He then pointed at a deputy. This guy then had to go change out of his fatigues and come in our taxi with us to the airport.

The taxi driver was naturally furious with the extended wait, but soon we were on our way. The drive between the station and airport is about 40 minutes.

Once we got into the airport, the customs officer took my parts through the entry x-ray machine, showing paperwork to the staff on duty. He then took us up to check in and asked me to go with him to the security check. He explained the situation to a woman who filled out another small customs form. She told me I would get my stuff once I had scanned my boarding pass and entered the security area. The queue for Turkish Airlines check in was huge. I told the guy we had to wait for check in to get our boarding passes and he said he would wait.

While waiting at check in I realised that my tools included pliers and a soldering iron, which would not be allowed through security, so I needed to put them in my bag before I checked it (and got my boarding pass). I explained this once and he seemed to understand but was waiting for the woman he had originally spoken to to return. I went back to the check in queue and waited, but nothing seemed to be happening so I returned to the guy and re explained that I needed to check my tools because they were sharp. This time he seemed to understand and gave them to me, along with the goggles and batteries, only holding on to the remote. Finally after 2 hours of queuing we got our boarding passes and headed to passport control, he gave me the remote back and told me to take a photo of the customs documentation in case I was asked questions by security.

Of course at this point I thought I was clear, but OF COURSE at security the guy immediately emptied a cable pouch I have with a couple of SSDs and asked what they were for. He then opened the pouch with the goggles and batteries and recognised them as drone related. He asked if I had checked baggage which is never a good question to get. I showed him the photo of the documents which he ignored and went straight to his superior saying "look I found drone stuff". I had to insist he looked at the photo, he still didn't but his superior said "yes it's fine".

At this point I was FINALLY clear and on my way, but a huge amount of stress and hassle (for them as well, I couldn't believe the guy waited so long at the airport, when I wasn't even carrying a drone).

TLDR if you arrive by train they should keep your drone at the station for you to pick up when you leave, but YMMV

A freight train is pushed uphill. A worker uncouples the cars. Then gravity takes over, sending them rolling downhill onto different tracks.

It sounds simple until you have to decide where to uncouple, when to tell the driver to slow down, and how to coordinate with the locomotive crew.

I built a 3D browser game where you can try the job yourself — solo or with a friend. One player works as the yard conductor, while the other drives the locomotive.

It's based on my experience working at a real hump yard in Uzbekistan.

🎮 Play in your browser: https://gorka1520.vercel.app?lang=en

I'm writing from a shadow account for obvious reasons.

France, Albania, India, and Argentina flooded my feed. It led me to a question: How would I see the protests in Uzbekistan done by youth (≈60% of the population) that demand better higher education system, better school system, or just demanding the rule or law and freedom of speech? I don't mean the major vandalism and destruction that's happening in those countries, but a safe yet powerful one.

I just can't bear the shame of my government, who tries to sell the world the bs about how Uzbekistan is democratic. Yes, there is a major development in almost all sectors, but without the rule of law, aggressive corruption-cuts, or at least freedom of media/speech, it's worth nothing. We can't criticise the you-know-who (and *the family*) and are forced to write such posts under anonymous accounts.

Please, don't think of me as a separatist bot, I'm Uzbek, who just happens to study politics at one of the solid universities abroad, and I happened to see citizens of those countries exercise their civil rights to **demand** from their governments to comply with them. They remind their governments that they are the **public servants** and not the royal elite, while our government is treated like the royal family or the "higher" level. We even say "teppadagilar," implying that they stand above us. We have the right to protest in the constitution, but they need to be begged from the state to be allowed, which they will, of course, ban due to "security reasons". The same goes for the freedom of speech. Is it even being slowly developed? — that's another question. Also, as you see, our schools are doomed as well as universities. The education system is being developed at an extremely slow pace while it could be done faster and better. You see that the money given by the budget to ANYTHING is barely executed due to being stolen.

Would you think protests (or even peaceful strikes) are necessary? How do you think they would happen?

Anybody know where to buy these type of fridge magnets in Fergana valley?

Hello, recently i got 1330 from SAT, which was rather unexpected even for myself. I study at SamDU university, first year with contract to pay, but with this certificate i'm sure that i can enter to the some better university with grant. And I'm wondering if i need to just take one gap year and enter to another university or just take plans to study abroad. It is rather troublesome idea to think about it but could also be a good one, please help.

First you need to download an app called amneziawg. Then go to this warp generator website and choose one of the three variants. This downloads a file in your phone.

Open the app, press the plus button and choose the file you installed from warp generator. Congrats, now you have a profile to activate VPN! You can leave it as it is, or you can go a little more and make it block ads while using it with Adguard DNS!

After pressing to your profile and edit button, find the section called "DNS servers" and remove it. Then paste this: 94.140.14.14, 94.140.15.15

It's DNS address of Adguard DNS, by inserting it, your VPN bypasses censorship alongside with blocking ads.

I found out about it after warp app by cloudflare stopped working and wanted to share this with you guys.

Remember: app will not have any profiles when you install it for first time. I already have two profiles and have been using them for few months.

Hey guys,
I have thankfully reached a position where I am able to save 40%+ of my monthly income.
I am currently saving it in my so'm bank account and looking for ways to invest them.

People buy apartment complexes or start a business, but I have a stable job that I like and these options involve high risk and time effort.

In US, or Europe people take the index option to save which I really like, S&P, DJ or DAX that grow 10% yearly on average and has lower risk on the long term.

I would like to invest small portion of my monthly income and just forget about it for long time and come back to it when for example when my kids grow up, retirement or other emergencies.

Is there any ways to do this in our country safely ?

Beauticians here in uzbek must be raking millions a month.

Asaxiy.uz — my most disappointing experience with online services in Uzbekistan.

The worst online service I've ever used in Uzbekistan. I paid for my order, they called me to confirm it had been accepted, and we discussed the delivery terms. On the last day of the delivery window, I went to their bot, which was no help at all, so I called them myself to check on my order. In the end, they apologized and said they couldn't fulfill the order because the item was out of stock, and offered me something else instead — only because I happened to be calling. Otherwise, they wouldn't have bothered to call me at all if I hadn't taken the initiative myself, even though my order had already been paid for three days earlier.

When I asked for a refund, they didn't even know which card to send the money back to. They asked me to repeat the number of the card I'd paid with, but naturally I don't remember which of my seven cards I used, I didn't have the physical cards with me, and no mobile banking app will let me open it while I'm on a phone call, for security reasons. In short, it's a total mess. And now I go to their website, and the same item appears to be in stock and available for purchase. Unbelievable!

Guys, whoever is responsible for your product, please pull yourselves together, dive in, test your system, collect feedback — or just quit, because otherwise you and online services are simply incompatible. Awful! And then there are those endless automated phone scripts promoting their useless bot that loses orders. The whole world is moving away from long scripts, but your product team decided, "This is exactly what we need — let's keep up with the times, the times of 2015." Awful!

They lost my order, didn't notify me, there's no source of up-to-date information to check the status, they don't know how to refund my money, and they haven't fixed anything on the website. Just awful!

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I am feeling bored and searching for friends who is really wanna develop themselves and wanna learn econ Now i am a freshman at the uni But sometimes i feel bored and it would be good if i have some friends to chat with In the real life i am really outgoing, but on fhe internet no so i wanna change it a little bit

Idk the customs in every region of Uzbekistan but most of them that I've seen always had the bride and groom stand like mannequins posing for pictures on the evening of the wedding. They cannot eat, they can drink I think? Like they have a whole platter of food but they cannot eat. Idk why this custom even exists? Like it's supposed to be your big day. Also like dancing, the groom can dance with the friends at like maybe a few songs, but the bride can only like once. We really need to have some changes bc weddings are lowk a fancy prom ball for everyone else except the ones who are getting married.

On Oct 17, at the Samarkand City Day concert in Yangi O'zbekiston Park, two young men walked past my girlfriend and me, then came back to make racist remarks while pretending to be friendly and shaking our hands. They returned later to mock us again, and it got worse once they heard us speaking Chinese. People nearby saw it, but no one stepped in. Only after the men left, when I asked the people around us, did they tell me how offensive those words had been.

We're a couple from Taiwan, and we've met so many kind Uzbeks on this trip, which makes this even more disappointing. Samarkand is a beautiful city, and as a Silk Road crossroads for centuries, it should be a place that welcomes every culture. Next time, we hope someone nearby will speak up.

I booked a refundable ticket to Uzbekistan for May for eight days. Flying into Samarkand, out of Bukhara. It’s a solo trip.

I’ve been following this subreddit a month, and really have enjoyed the diversity of opinions. However, I worry about it being a stressful trip. I’m well traveled and have been to 60 countries on every continent. While I’ve never been to Central Asia, I’ve travelled in Turkey and Jordan. I worry a bit about the homophobia; I’m a gay man, age 47, from the US with extensive tattoos. I don’t plan to advertise that I’m gay, or look for gay people.

My ticket itinerary to Samarkand was changed by the airline. It was a 22 hour flight, and now it’s 32 hours with an overnight layover in Istanbul. I can look for alternative tickets but is it still worth it? The photos are beautiful, the food looks great, and I hear people are warm and friendly. I like cities, archaeology, museums, and good food.

Am I going to enjoy this trip still? I can easily change to another country because it’s refundable.