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10mo ago

Ukraine is fielding machine-gun turrets remotely controlled by the Steam Deck video game system

Ukraine is fielding machine-gun turrets remotely controlled by the Steam Deck video game system made for playing Halo

Ukraine's United24 Media, a government-run platform, shared a video of Ukrainian soldiers using the Steam Deck system to remotely control guns on social media over the weekend.

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- He’s a libertarian so this is just a good business opportunity
  
  Is he? Varoufakis said that, back when he worked at valve, Newel had an "anarcho-syndicalist soul trapped in a private company" or something like that
“Ya got the ninendo guns set up yet?”
Steam decks are reliable commercial-off-the-shelf compact battery operated linux computers.
- Steam = bibeo games
  Deck = console
  Now read the headline and tell me if it's epic
Ukrainian soldiers are absolutely going to get mowed down by their own turrets.
Does this serve any practical purpose, or is this whole thing engineered for the reddit upvotes? (you know the answer)
I wonder how much of this stuff is really useful, or is meant to portray them as scrappy underdogs in need of aid.
scrubs don't even use gyro aim, pathetic boomer mentality
This is the most
thing I've ever seen.
been using them for over a year now:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/using-a-steam-deck-to-control-a-ukrainian-automatic-turret-now-ive-seen-it-all/
This truly is the year of the linux desktop
Hey if it works it works. COTS parts are the way to go.

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