• @nebula42
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    3011 months ago

    Everyone shitting on the submarine using a controller seems to forget or not know that the u.s navy themselves use them to control their submarines. source

    • grrk
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      11 months ago

      You seem to have forgotten that the navy gets fucking lockheed martin to make their specialized $38,000 controllers, not some generic $20 logitech bullshit off of amazon. See your own source for reference.

      • @mkwt
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        1511 months ago

        Yeah this stuff has to pass qual testing. Extreme high and low temperatures, vibration profiles, humidity and sea water exposure, probably shock loads, stricter EMI controls (compared to FCC), ESD exposure, explosive atmosphere testing, and so on and so on.

    • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]
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      1711 months ago

      The U.S. Navy plans to equip its Virginia-class submarines with Xbox 360 controllers, which will control the ship’s periscopes.

      Periscopes. Not steering the goddamned sub.