• Barbarian772@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    You’re right if it would have been an xbox controller, it wouldn’t have been crazy.

    It was actually a basically ancient Logitech Controller, which had connection problems even when you use it inside your home in front of your pc.

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      1 year ago

      I guess they can be pretty safe from radio interference there, at least :).

      I doubt the connectivity issues need to exist, though, probably works just fine in some configurations. What I’m wondering though if they had a spare, and maybe a second spare, and space batteries, on the boat. Or possibly manual override (doesn’t sound like it).

      I think the device itself is fine, though it might be indicative of too aggressive cost cutting measures.

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        An article on APNews said there were multiple backups onboard… Which sort of engenders the thought of why they needed multiple backups. I’d be sure to have A backup, sure, but multiple?

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          My thought is are they from different lots and are the batteries from different manufacturers and different lots? You don’t want to have 5 devices and them all from the same batch and all fail in the same way. A company not concerned by safety probably wouldn’t consider any of this. I also bet their SOP didn’t include changing batteries every time, so you have to rule out that these spares probably weren’t getting charged up or have their batteries replaced either.