I think if you reflect a little, you know the answer really. Take a look at what happened during the pandemic

Although the 1% is really the 0.1%. So it’s much, much worse.

Both seem to work.

You got me.

It took me until your comment to realise I had skimmed over the word “half” in the OP. Now this whole thing makes sense.

A person of culture I see. Thank you kind person.

You know you’re pronouncing egg wrong when you have to spell it some other way.

Looks like night in the meme?

Yeah…imagine actually getting in a gun fight and getting shot in the hand/arm only to then be completely useless.

Get training that lefty (or righty if you are a lefty!)

Ol’ CRT eyes here

Are your teachers reading your screens a lot? Because it’s a PITA to read if you’re not using it yourself.

Also if you demo code you should switch to the more traditional so that others don’t have a hard time reading.

Basically it’s just down to the human brains amazing ability to do pattern recognition subconsciously so you don’t have to actively think about what that symbol means - unless someone used a different symbol.

Thank you

Look I get it, you want to argue about the cause. You go ahead and do that…but I’m here discussing the merits of inference in order to make judgements that may well affect longevity.

Good day.

And?

The discussion is around what the controller tells us about the approach to the design and development of the vehicle.

The fact that there are people readily defending the use of an entertainment controller to navigate at the limit of human endeavour tells me how they managed to find people to sign up for this death ride.

Hundreds of millions of people is likely an overestimate given the PS5 has sold only 50m and while there are likely sometimes multiple users per device, and likely some PC users, it’s unlikely there are anywhere near 200m. Additionally most of these users will be using Sony controllers - which I believe was not the case here.

Further: all of those users are not expecting to rely on this device for their personal safety and continued existance.

So just in the same way I don’t use a straw for breathing underwater, I also don’t get on deep sea submersibles controlled by a PlayStation controller that, at the point of design and manufacture, did not have life support anywhere near its specification.

So to answer your question - no, an imaginary “hundreds of millions” of users using a device for an entirely different purpose is certainly NOT enough for me to entrust my life to. But that’s just me - you feel free to do you.

In this context it absolutely is a life support device - if it fails, the occupants are dead.

Do you have any other examples of a time where such a device is used in such circumstances?

The best anology I can think of is planes, and none of them are using entertainment input devices AFAIK?

As a scuba diver I have a buoyancy control device, which I am totally reliant on for life and thus I take 2. Did they even take spares with them? If they did then i can see this being a legit way of being safe.

Not taking it as being mean - its an interesting conversation, hopefully you feel the same.

Well you’re clearly better informed about the status of the sub than i, but I’m just saying it’s unusual for a life support device to be something not designed for such a purpose.

Sure…where the failure of the device does not lead to inevitable death.

In a situation where my life is 100% dependent on a device, said device must have gone through appropriate design and testing procedures.

True…and you don’t need to live in a house, or use the Internet, or have a bank account, or have a computer/mobile…all things that have caused catastrophic damage to the environment and killed countless animals.

One has to draw a line somewhere- perhaps you shouldn’t be holier than though just because you draw the line at “I don’t want to see the evidence of the death”

This is such an own goal it’s almost a meme at this point.

You know why Linux doesn’t have this shit? Because it hasn’t attracted the ire of the marketing team. Do you know why that is? Because the fraction of target users using Linux is TINY. It’s not worth the expensive engineering effort, especially when you consider the demographic using Linux is unlikely to fall for this shit.

The more you win the “use linux” argument, the more the argument won’t make sense. The day Linux gets enough user share to justify it, is the day all this shit starts happening on Linux.

It doesn’t depend on locality as much as it does on advertising.

In the UK its either pronounced “wawhey” or “that Chinese company” depending on speaker.