Sometimes you just gotta check shit out

Honestly one of the more relatable things he’s done

I mean… most industrial machines have a stop button present on them (though not on the controller). I’m not sure that the sub having a “stop imploding” button on the inside of the hull would have done much good though

The controller is not a life support device. It’s an input device. It is designed with the express purpose as being an input device.

Again, any one million dollar “special submarine input device” they could have manufactured would be less tested and more prone to failure than a simple controller already subject to decades of research and both hands on and automated testing.

I’m not trying to be mean to you and I hope you don’t take it as such, it’s just really standard practice.

I mean. Yeah. It does. The controller didn’t fail during the submarines trip lol. It was perfectly fine the whole time.

Trying to over engineer a specific entirely new device when incredibly developed options already exist is kind of an engineering mindset failure that would only lead to more problems.

Yeah I know, it’s actually the same one I use on my CNC machine. The OP just said PlayStation as kind of a general purpose term

Just as a fun fact, it’s actually quite common for industrial machinery and the like to be controlled with a gaming controller. Like, a hundred things wrong with the submarine trip - but the PlayStation controller is genuinely one of the more legitimate aspects.

They’re simply made well, easy to use, and typically extremely durable and long lasting.

This seems… reasonable…? They’re not telling you not to do this. It’s a safety measure in case 1. You either fat finger the tip screen and don’t realize it or 2. You write a $5 tip on your receipt and the waiter rings it up for $50. It probably triggers after 25 or 30% on a tip. Who cares?

I don’t really get a lot of people on this website. This is just a good faith, consumer friendly security check email and people will still read it and find a way to feel morally superior about it

I don’t think you’re really getting the point if the main thing you got hung up on there was “calculating the approximate value of a worker to a CEO during their tenure at a company”

I don’t think you’ve avoided losing if you’ve made major life changes in order to not give some CEO down the line $50,000 in equity.

That sounds like the biggest form of losing I can think of.

Ok. That’s a very fine system if everyone in the country works in a button factory where they just push buttons on a keyboard all day and don’t actually produce anything.

What do you think businesses are… making products for??

That seems like super lame throwing in the towel.

Yeah sure, as long as you don’t associate any meaning with the word.

Slavery is people literally kidnapped and forced to work in fields without wages or actual housing. Well, also, it’s kind of just when you make kind of close to minimum wage. Well, actually, it’s when you’re a computer programmer but you wish you got paid more. Who cares. It’s all the same word.

Ok. How about you say working class and not fucking “slave” then lol. It’s insulting to compare working at TJ Maxx for 40 hours a week to literal slavery.

I think it’s insulting to compare working 40 hours a week to afford to live to literal slavery

More than literal slaves got.

I’m not sure that any kids I might have are going to become slaves….

Sorry - genuinely don’t understand this one. What’s the connection? No kids means… no future workers?

I mean I’m a PC guy and I’m pretty handy with tech and even I have genuinely I don’t think ever fixed / upgraded my computer past cleaning it out and one single time re-setting a ram stick that had a bad connection.

There’s simply no reason for a lot of people to do so. I’m not a huge gamer, I’m not running a database or a torrenting operation from my computer, and by the time one of mine starts to get slow or break down it’s been like 7 years and I’m just due for a new one anyway.

Honestly the only reason I don’t get mac is the price point and .exe files

I’m going to be honest, I know people on Lemmy love Linux, but it always is kind of impressive that Apple has built a very successful brand basically catering to the 90% or whatever of home users who basically just use their PC for social media and video watching and maybe some very minor photo editing/management