Why United Does Not Allow You To Use In-Flight Screen As Extended Display

[threshold_dweller@lemmy.today]

What? My 20 years of flying regularly with 3.5mm headphones must have been a very long hallucination.

[iopq@lemmy.world]

I said earphones and you're talking about headphones

[iopq@lemmy.world]

I don't care about them, the seatbelt light is either on or off, don't bother me with what the temperature is at our destination

[iopq@lemmy.world]

Yet I haven't heard of an earphone with this functionality

[threshold_dweller@lemmy.today]

They make both, you dense idiot.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

When I bought my house it took the old owner ages to reroute all of her mail to whatever her new address was. At one point sje had a credit card sent to her and it came to my house along with the PIN number.

If I'd been so inclined I could have withdrawn all the money from her account.

Meanwhile when I moved in I spent the first 2 days basically doing nothing other than making sure all of my mail was coming to my new address.

People are just really bad at thinking

[echodot@feddit.uk]

I've definitely seen them in American airlines at least in the business class. That was about 2014 ish so I'd be surprised if it hasn't become anything other than more commonplace.

[anunusualrelic@lemmy.world]

It doesn't work that way. They're piped through all audio channels at maximum volume.

[anivia@feddit.org]

During the early days of Android phones, when most of them shipped with open bootloaders and still had microsd card slots, I've seen so many store display phones that were flashed with cyanogenmod by random people

[ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca]

Also consider smart watches.

[ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca]

I've been on budget flights where the in-flight infotainment was an app on your phone which connects to a media server on the plane. Everyone was watching with Bluetooth headphones and there were no issues.

[ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca]

I've been on budget flights where in flight infotainment was an app on your phone that connects to a media server on the plane itself. Everyone was using Bluetooth and there are no issues.

[iopq@lemmy.world]

I haven't found a single model of wired noise canceling earphones in existence

[iopq@lemmy.world]

If it could, planes would be dropping right and left. It hasn't been an issue in several decades

[iopq@lemmy.world]

Don't care, gaming on my steam deck