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

[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

[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