this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
68 points (91.5% liked)

Hacker News

202 readers
3 users here now

This community serves to share top posts on Hacker News with the wider fediverse.

Rules0. Keep it legal

  1. Keep it civil and SFW
  2. Keep it safe for members of marginalised groups

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
68
Man Thrown Off Delta Flight for Offering to Fix Broken Inflight Entertainment (www.paddleyourownkanoo.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

To play devil's advocate, there's quite a lot of paranoia around air travel these days. Security theater or not, I could see an inexperienced flight attendant getting antsy about someone asking to help with the tech on a plane. A lot of the linked messages seem to agree.

That being said, waiting until they wrote the complaint makes it seem more petty. And yet, it's hard to judge without knowing how exactly the offer was presented.