Easy, just send him back in time.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Multiverse_Time_Travel/

That’s a very elaborate way to spell “leeches”.

Most of what we experience as taste is actually smell. It’s generally not an issue.

The trick is to not put the smelly thing inside your mouth.

This could be difficult to apply for such an extended period of time, but I generally have good results by just breathing exclusively through my mouth. Pretend you’re underwater and breathing through a snorkel.

This technique has gotten me through many a fart and temporary sewage/fertilizer exposure.

I’ve heard games like Elite are less problematic, since you’re sitting still and the vehicle is moving. Apparently that makes it more natural, compared to moving around on foot in the game but standing still in real life.

In the case of Star Citizen, they used to support it, but since the game is still being actively developed in the alpha stage it kept breaking. Not worth the time and money to keep fixing it, so they put it on hold. As far as I know, they still plan to support it after the main feature set is stabilized and they go into polishing mode.

But I agree, it would be great if it still/already had native support.

They had that in the 80s, too.

https://youtu.be/Js4yGcgO6hk?si=nH2tCptCgq2oYxIo

We are slowly turning ourselves into Krikkit.

That was always part of the enshittification formula. The final stage after exploiting users is to exploit business customers to the breaking point.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

It opens a separate session in the browser and prevents saving any cookies, history or other state locally when you close it. Doesn’t change a blessed thing on the other end of the connection.

I like “lembos”.

Having read it, this is basically correct. The last hurdle was that the sewer system was designed to use the river to dump overflow in the case of heavy rains. Now they’re finishing up a large reservoir to use instead.

He didn’t want to buy the company. So, he’s turning it into a pet project.

That’s a good point, and one that had not occurred to me. For all we know, he’s already mentally written off the $44 billion as a loss and is just having fun with it, with no expectation of success.

That would explain a lot.

You wouldn’t download a meme.

It wasn’t up the whole time. I went looking for it a few years ago after a new OS install, and found that, at the time, the site was in limbo with some message about coming back eventually, but no official way to download it. Glad it’s back, hope they didn’t turn it into enshittified bloatware.

I agree in general, but search feels like an odd example. That space has been dominated by ad companies since even before the internet (e.g., Yellow Pages).

That’s a good way of putting it. Reminds me of how the technology behind gorilla glass had been around for decades, but its use suddenly exploded when smartphones came along and needed something like it. Wouldn’t surprise me if Blockchain ends up existing as a niche thing for a long time until a killer app for it comes along.

You don’t even have to go that far back. Howard Dean’s enthusiastic-but-awkward yell was such a non-issue, and it still ruined his whole campaign.

More of a duck than a goose, but I think the sentiment applies: https://youtu.be/4JudTGMp4Yw

I could have sworn I read about it shutting down years ago. Did someone bring it back up, or am I just mistaken?