Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

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ManiacalChrisBenoit said:
You had to install drivers? I just plugged mine into Windows 11 and it was good to go. Works on Linux as well out of the box.

I can't believe these millionaires didn't do any research on this company. I figured businessmen were more savvy than that.
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I've had to manually install drivers for different f710s on windows 7, 8 and 10, plus the aforementioned reg key issue happened once, also the bluetooth usb dongle f710 comes with failed on 3 different controllers, over time it loses signal unless you're holding the controller right next to it and even then if the angle is wrong or something the controller freezes on last input for approximately 2 seconds. Probably shit soldering, there was an earlier bigger version of that usb thingie that didn't have such an issue.
Oh right, also I forgot that they've used shitty resistors for the shoulder buttons - they're open on one side and dust builds up on them over time causing the controller to randomly press shoulder buttons.
I beat dark souls on f710 and it was so awful that I'll never touch a logitech product again.
 
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AnOminous said:
What about basic common sense, like why is this piece of shit built out of a material absolutely nobody else uses for submarines?
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Because it sounds cool and saves on weight to use meme technologies and materials.
AnOminous said:
Why is it using a knockoff Xbox controller with Bluetooth?
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Because it worked, as retarded as it looks and sounds. People fixating on the controller seem to be in a bubble surrounded by video games and can't look at the other designs like the hull.
 
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HarveyMC said:
Would you have laughed at the Wright brothers if their plane crashed on its maiden voyage?
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Probably tbh. Have you seen those old films of guys trying to build the first flying machines?
Some of them are funny as hell when they crash, and the Wright Brothers plane did look goofy as fuck.
 
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Blue Miaplacidus said:
Honestly? Yes. "Look at these retards thinking they can glue some muslin sheets onto some spruce wood and thinkin' they could fly, they even tried to control it with a logitech 12hp engine!"
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It's not like this was some groundbreaking new technology that was never attempted before. Bathyscaphes have existed for years. The only innovative thing about this design is how many corners they were able to cut without it imploding the first time they put it in the water.
 
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Iron Lung's Dev again took the chance brilliantly
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HarveyMC said:
Would you have laughed at the Wright brothers if their plane crashed on its maiden voyage?
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The Wright brothers didn't charge rich tourists for a ride. The experiments were financed by their own bicycle business.
That said, I think the waiver the people had signed was fair and what is now seen as stupidity and negligence was almost a selling point of the whole thing. OceanGate was proudly displaying all the duct tape.
 
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Almighty Space Duck said:
What I don't understand is why the US Navy hasn't stepped forward to say if they picked any events up on their hydrophone arrays.
Those arrays picked up Scorpion's implosion all the way over at the Azores in 1968. Detecting something by the Titanic wreck should be a piece of piss.
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A thread in A&N right now may be related: Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
 
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HarveyMC said:
Bruh. There's a difference between "This man killed and raped an 8 year old child who he randomly grabbed off the side of the road. Let's shoot him" and "An experimental, high risk vehicle failed - killing all occupants including its creator".

Would you have laughed at the Wright brothers if their plane crashed on its maiden voyage?
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It is a sad thing that they died, especially the 19 year old kid. I think the people on Twitter who are celebrating their deaths "because capitalists bad" or whatever are ghouls.
But I come on this website to laugh at idiots. This website was founded around Chris-Chan, whose only "crime" was being an autistic weirdo (or at least, until he started doing all those actual crimes). It is incredibly funny that the CEO who thought he'd outsmarted marine engineers and safety regulations by "innovating" ended up dealing with a catastrophe like this. The whole aspect of this unfolding above the wreck of an "unsinkable" ship is even funnier. Plus it turns out his wife was the descendant of some Titanic passengers, which is even funnier. Then look at that thing - the fact it so clearly looks horribly unsafe and people paid a quarter mil to ride in it when common sense would tell you not to get in the death trap tube even if someone was paying you, is funny, too.
It's like if Elon Musk did a safety demonstration with a prototype self-driving Tesla against the specific instructions of his engineers, and then got run over by it.
Laughing at jokes about this submarine is not something I'd admit to in polite society, but I wouldn't admit to laughing at trannies in polite society, either.
 
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