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testeronious @lemmy.world

1y ago

The infotainment system on my plane seat has been boot looping for the entire flight

linuxinthewild @lemmy.world

The infotainment system has been boot looping for the entire flight

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Are you not entertained?
- I mean they did take a picture

At least it’s not Windows for a change.

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

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.

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?

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

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