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Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Mrkawfee@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] buttfarts@lemy.lol 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The game controller is not managing life critical functions, that's called a computer. The game controller plugs into the computer. The great thing about that is that you can bring a second (or even a third) game controller for redundancy.

It's just that the engineering choices that caused the failure are difficult to understand or communicate in sentence so the game controller is something any idiot can harp on about and sound smart.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

he game controller is not managing life critical functions

oh, it doesn't control ascent and descent, angle of attack, etc? it's not used to turn or operate the craft, that's all 'done by computer'?

pfft.

bluetooth and other wireless interface protocols aren't meant for life critical applications. give me a hardwired input - even a game controller - any day when it comes to life or death shit.