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No darkmode... Pedestrian flash banging the plane
Seriously. What a fucking ridiculous "problem". The photos in this article are absurd.
Carries entire homelab onto plane so who's up for a LAN party? I'm hosting.
You joke, but I have absolutely created an ad-hoc wireless network and gamed with people I'm traveling with on a flight before.
There are very very few things that I believe deserve summary and immediate execution, and that's just made the list.
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.
My wife does this. At 2am. Often mid week. And wonders why I wake up in the middle of the night and grumpy.
How?! How can they stand it themselves and not feel like they're being blinded?
Probably just don't know what dark mode is
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.
If it’s wireless someone will be sent porn by the creep 2 rows back.
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.
Ah, the times when all phones and laptops in Tesco were unlocked for testing by customers and playing porn every day.
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
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.
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.
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.
People can’t behave themselves in public. Even more so on airplanes.
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.
What a jackass.
Rule 34.