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

[notthebees@reddthat.com]

They make a thing for that.

[med@sh.itjust.works]

I played splinter cell chaos theory coop with some random on my steamdeck on a transatlantic flight a few months ago. Can highly recommend!

[domdanial@reddthat.com]

Damn, I really wanna try this now. Halo 1 pvp on a flight with anyone who I can give a USB stick? Would take me back to high school

[mx_smith@lemmy.world]

Reminds me of the time when I was living in Phoenix and picking up a friend from the bus station. The bus departures came in one big door and right next to the door was one of them new standing internet kiosks that allowed you to browse the internet. This was back in 2003. I was checking it out to see what you could do and where it allowed you to go, when my friends bus came in. I was on goatse.cx and saw my friend and left the kiosk open and we went to leave and noticed many older Hispanic folks freaking out, or laughing as they entered the bus station. The timer ran out on the internet access, but it was a lot of fun with open monitors in public.

[maggoty@lemmy.world]

I've never seen angle protection on those screens and I've flown multiple carriers with them.

[maggoty@lemmy.world]

Reason is libertarian and MBFC has a massive libertarian bias.

[maggoty@lemmy.world]

The second we get a better short range wireless protocol so there aren't a hundred Bluetooth devices jamming each other on the plane.

If you travel a lot they do make airplane headphones that have a 3.5mm connector and run noise cancelling.

[maggoty@lemmy.world]

Found these pretty quickly.

[xthexder@l.sw0.com]

Most over-ear noise cancelling headphones I've seen have a 3.5mm input that works with the noise cancelling.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

It absolutely has a strong bias, but my point is that they do a great job with citing facts, whereas a lot of large media orgs don't bother. That's why they get a strong factual rating.

I certainly could never recommend Reason as a primary news source (even as a libertarian myself), but it's fantastic as a secondary to whatever mainstream media source you like. It offers a different perspective and sometimes facts that other sources leave out (for their own biased reasons), and I find that really valuable. If you're not libertarian, it'll challenge some of your assumptions and hopefully make you think.

[neon@lemmy.world]

Are we talking about united in specific or carriers in general?

Because I am 99% certain that my last british airways flight had those protected angles

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah, people can be idiots, myself included.

[ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca]

Loads of people use Bluetooth devices on airplanes already. Are there any reports of destructive interference as is?

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Idk. But from my experience, it's usually something like 20 people (me included). If you made that the default way to connect, I think more people would use them.

Or maybe it's not an issue, idk. I don't know a ton about Bluetooth and airplanes.

[maggoty@lemmy.world]

One of them was a BA flight.

[tonyostrich@lemmy.world]

Hell yeah. Halo Custom Edition will run on a potato. We played it in highschool off of flash drives on Pentium 4HT desktops with integrated graphics.

[pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I would expect a plan to have a lot more than 20 people watching something on their phone with AirPods (or a clone thereof). Just about everyone that's watching or listening to something on their phone nowadays is using BT headphones, because most phones don't have 3.5mm jacks anymore.

[threshold_dweller@lemmy.today]

Eh. At least it looks like it's daytime. If it were on a redeye, I'd vote to push him out the nearest hatch.

[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