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Confidentiality. Or porn. One of those things.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

No darkmode... Pedestrian flash banging the plane

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Probably just don't know what dark mode is

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (41 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.

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[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

What a jackass.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago
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