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Are you not entertained?
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
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I mean they did take a picture
At least it’s not Windows for a change.
You really don’t want broken Windows on a Boeing flight.
Imagine if windows controlled the plane
(Insert boeing 737 meme here)
Spirit Airline is fine though. Expected, even.
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It happened to me on a long flight, I notified the staff and they rebooted the entire system, every passenger was left without infotainment for ~15min, just so I could have it (idk, maybe I wasn't the only complaint). It worked afterwards, I watched 12 Monkeys.
12 Monkeys on a long flight, huh
Everytime I'm on a flight with infotainment, I wonder about the company responsible for writing the software. A small part of me wants to get a job at one of those companies, just to see what the process is like...
The infotainment part is probably very boring, semi-embedded software - and it's completely separated from all the interesting posts of the plane.
A close relative of mine is working for a joint venture (between a medium sized European airline and LG) which tries to get into this market. Just had their first plane outfitted with their screens and software, and is now operational (sort of, they almost didn't get approval).
In all seriousness it could be such a cool and interesting project. But general incompetency, finger pointing, internal power plays, and management neglect make it just as bad as you imagine already.
i386? copyright 2002? An LCD that has the viewing angles from the 90s?
That doesn't mean it has a literal 80386 CPU, only that it runs a 32-bit OS
I see a power button there; have you tried turning it off and on again? How about holding the ~~volume~~ brightness up button while holding the power button as it boots to get into the recovery mode?
reinstall it smh
That would unironically be the best possible way I could spend my time on a flight.
This, but it's the plane's main system and you have 80% of the total flight duration at your disposal, for fixing it.
Challenge accepted.
Very entertaining.
... attempts 3 of 25 - dangerous
I recognize that inflight entertainment system! I believe you are flying on an ex Virgin America plane and if it still has the same software stack that Virgin America was using then the game gem drop was a port of bill Kendrick's gem drop x. There's actually an Easter egg within that port with Bill's face hidden in the game.
In my (admittedly limited) experience, that just means the RAM is probably bad.
I see no output regarding to ram corruption