Taking the measurements locally is logical. The calibration check in to a cloud service also makes sense since these sensors aren't "for" the people using them but for the protection of the public. So normal concerns like loss of privacy pale in comparison to the risk of people already established to be untrustworthy attempting to disable or interfere with the interlock and has the upsides of not having to check in as at a brick and mortar as often for the people trying to get their life back together.

How could I forget the flag suit also used to march to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic complete with sexual thrusts, sex tape clips, and AI generated clips of officers with rat tails...

Was it really rogue or working as designed? (With that design being hasty and poor in order to chase the latest fad.)

The whole saga is just wild. Spent only a little time watching but from what I could gather it had everything I would expect out of a rural Ohio LEO run-in with a rapper:

• Missing money without investigation
• Videos from "the informant" that lead to the wild goose chase kidnapping raid then accusing the officers of drug fueled sexual encounters after conviction for other crimes
• A convicted pedophile officer whose sibling can't identify what they were convicted of under oath
• Hiring adult film workers to parody a straight and cisgendered officer as lesbian and transgender in very graphic poses
• Selling Hunchback of Notre Dame style merch of an officer who is ignorant of the character
• Divorce / infidelity sagas
• Unhinged incompetent depositions / testimonies that completely undermine the case.
• And Mama's lemon pound cake.

Been a while since I used my G13, but the software programmed the device so that the keys were just standard keyboard or mouse button inputs. And the stick could be analog game controller style or 8-direction d-pad mapped to key presses. I think some of the modern competitors only do D-pad style, so then everything is just standard keyboard presses. And if using Steam with anything game controller like, Steam can do controller profiles for mapping inputs as well.

I shudder at the thought of what would then emerge next, steamy thrillers about RMS, Torvalds, and CowboyNeal?

As their metaverse vision completes it's final death throes, keeping the brand name marking their misguided chase of a fad seems still appropriate.

If you play in the walled garden, better not anger the groundskeeper.

Something like the G13 / Razer Tartarus / Azeron takes the place of the keyboard as part of the mouse / keyboard combo. So the general pattern of aiming with the mouse would be unchanged.

At that point, why not use something purposefully designed like a gamepad. Maybe if this trend continues, Logitech will bring back the G13

The US isn't the only market.

"Please don't legislate me as a monopoly!"

And Grok's been reading Twitter comments and so it's no surprise that it's non-consensually putting people into swastika bikinis.

It's not a mystery that it was pithy sarcastic comment, but it was interesting because the analogy is reversed.

It's easy to make rules when you don't think about the consequences. These people think they'll be seen as the "defender of children" and not "the person who is making people sign into a fucking calculator".