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Confidentiality. Or porn. One of those things.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 107 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

No darkmode... Pedestrian flash banging the plane

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Seriously. What a fucking ridiculous "problem". The photos in this article are absurd.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Carries entire homelab onto plane so who's up for a LAN party? I'm hosting.

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You joke, but I have absolutely created an ad-hoc wireless network and gamed with people I'm traveling with on a flight before.

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[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Id fucking love this

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are very very few things that I believe deserve summary and immediate execution, and that's just made the list.

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[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I never recline my seat, but if I was sitting infront of that guy I would move it down for a bit. Then up again. Then down again. Etc for however long the flight is

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm already annoyed when someone is using their phone in the dark and doesn't adjust the brightness settings.

If you do this during night flights, sincerely, fuck you.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

My wife does this. At 2am. Often mid week. And wonders why I wake up in the middle of the night and grumpy.

[–] Shaggy1050@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How?! How can they stand it themselves and not feel like they're being blinded?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Probably just don't know what dark mode is

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They're just not letting their eyes get dark-adapted in the first place. They can't see anything but the phone screen, but they also don't care.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 49 points 1 week ago (8 children)

If it’s wireless someone will be sent porn by the creep 2 rows back.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

yeah this whole article was an unnecessary rant which the author realized only after publishing.

Update: A reader writes in with an obvious comment that did not occur to me:

The obvious reason not to let people put things on the screens you own in public is that invariably people will put porn on them, and then you'll have other people complaining that the united screen system is showing porn. They don't say this because no corporate PR hack is going to talk about porn when it's not necessary. But it's definitely the real reason, and it's one they will not and should not budge on.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, the times when all phones and laptops in Tesco were unlocked for testing by customers and playing porn every day.

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[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I worked in a wine shop that had banks of conputers that people could ise to look up reviewer’s rating on wines or place orders on our website. I ended up having to get IT to lock them down to only 6-7 websites because people would use them to try to access their banking. I had to explain to way too many people with jobs in high finance the risks of them doing this on a public computer. Too many idiots would do banking on a flight only to get robbed.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I watched a woman log into her email at a Best Buy laptop kiosk then walk away. I went over and logged her out.

The user is a moron. Lock your shit.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I spent two years at that aforementioned wine shop emailing “I love you” to my co-worker buddy Rob should anyone have left open their email. Rob knew it was me but always made a point to thank the person who said they loved him.

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[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (35 children)

I just want to know when I can connect my noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones to the display instead of the tinny pair of wired "maraccas" that I keep in my travel bag.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Idk, 150 people in a tin can all using Bluetooth could cause issues.

It would be better to get noise cancelling headphones with a 3.5mm headphone jack. I had some until my daughter broke them, and I loved them.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

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

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

People can’t behave themselves in public. Even more so on airplanes.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Reason is a shit rag, and I don't think their slop should be posted.

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What a jackass.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I always thought it was so whatever company they contract with could show their brainwash ads

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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago
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