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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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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If I'd been so inclined I could have withdrawn all the money from her account.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

The article is about extended displays though. No traces left.

And The last time I flew the displays had viewing angles tht made it so only you could see the display, sp they were actually more private than laptops.

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.

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.

I think they're one of the better ones since they tend to cite their sources clearly. Media bias fact check agrees with me as well.

They are super biased though, and you'll get something between a libertarian and Republican lite perspective (think socially liberal Republicans). They absolutely shouldn't be your only source of news and they're very selective about what they cover, but when it comes to factual accuracy, they're pretty good.

Perhaps you disagree with their political bias, but that doesn't make them inaccurate. I highly recommend reading some high quality news sources with a different political bias than your own to get a broader perspective. It doesn't have to be Reason, but Reason is a decent option for left-leaning people because the factual accuracy is pretty high and the perspective is so different.