I've experienced many problems when the brazilian DST starts or finishes. The problem is caused by our (brazilian) government, which decides each year if and when the DST vigours, but even when they do that with reasonable time before the starting day, some device will have problems.

EA Play is also using DosBOX for some games in it's PC subscription.

I was not aware that the problem was fragility of the components, thanks for pointing that out. I suppose that it is at least fixable as the sticks assembly is modular and may be replaced easily. Another option to 2rd party controllers is to use an USB dongle from 8bitdo that allows the use of other consoles controllers, currently I'm using a PS4 DualShock.

I wonder why no one decided to make some sort of optical sensors to detect stick movement. That could be encapsulated in a way that is immune to dust.

Well, on the other hand, this may be taken as an experimental test of the theory. Scientists are not supposed to have blind faith, it's in the job requirements. Even though it may be a well established theory, it must be tested.

The government would have no problems to tax payments through WhatsApp, if it decided to do so. In fact, the brazillian Central Bank is developing an open payment platform based in QR codes and (as far as I understand) banks are required to accept it by november.

Like the Obama administration?

This joke is getting tiresome.

There is "Skip this version" button for me? What's the matter?

This makes me very suspicious.

This should have been filled under Idle.

And people can write illegibly in computers using comics sans. I would refuse to read anything written using it.