• @mojofrododojo
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    21 month ago

    using a wireless controller to manage life critical functions is the acme of stupidity.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      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
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        91 month 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.