Why isn't Elon swooping in, offering to build a carbon tunnel to the Titanic ("funding secured") and calling people pedos along the way? Seems like exactly his cup of tea.
He has done it once and cannot be bothered to do the same things over and over again. Rescuing people is a solved problem after all and there is no more challenge in it.
NEXT: Hideo Kojima makes a VR Game that realistically simulates what would be to rescue the Titan, however no player managed to succeed yet, as their submersible also gets stuck in the middle of deep sea and also prompting a rescue operation
Steam Deck. Linux. They will need to Bing the correct magic for GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, /etc/default/grub, in order to get rid of spurious interrupts.
Hey the steam controller was kind of a flop but I got one when they went on closeout at like $5 and it's actually pretty sweet. Very niche but definitely unique.
Just to defend this as an engineer (though not one that works with submarines in any capacity), using a video game controller might sound funny, but it could actually make sense vs. using a device of your own creation. They're highly replaceable, so you have an infinite supply of reliable backups to draw upon. It's not prone to design flaws in the same way a "homemade" controller would be. OTS devices are often designed to withstand certain conditions or modes of use, such as force or moisture or whatever else you anticipate in your environment. They're also widely used, so there are troves of publicly available information on them to draw upon. It might seem silly, but if I were building a titanic submarine YOLO ship thing, I'd probably use something similar.
Ask any serious video gamer and they'll talk your ear off about highly reliable hall-effect sensor joysticks and other such high-reliability parts (Cherry switches, etc. etc.) that kick the ass of cheap potentiometers + dome-rubber style switches (like found in a cheap-ass Logitech).
And such parts are available at... $50 to $80. Choosing a cheap-ass $30 piece of junk isn't even saving much money.
It's true that after the overhaul about 10 years ago Alvin can dive to nearly twice the Titanic's depth, but Alvin and Atlantis are in the Pacific Ocean right now
People, just trust me, Gabe Newell: it's actually really safe! It's controlled by a Steam Deck hot wired into a version of Source that runs Half-Life 2 and Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines at the same time it controls the sub. Just don't pick Malkavian on the selection screen, otherwise the lights might flicker, and the sub might malfunction, leaving you stuck deep at sea.