Sir Arthur V Quackington @ ocassionallyaduck @lemmy.world

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That's why you crop it to just the QR code.

The ticket scanner on most devices and stands displays only Name and Seat Assignment. Not zone. If you've, they can't un-scan it.

Walk up with the cropped QR code ready (try to leave some of the app background color as a border, just crop it so no text is cutoff and the zone is missing) and there is almost no chance they stop you and say "sorry I need you to reload your app so I can verify your zone".

They just scan it and move on. Walk with confidence and try it. I've done this literally dozens of times this year alone.

If you walk up with a printed boarding pass, they might stop you if they see it in time. And if you use the app, same, it's usually bold obvious text there.

Worked on Delta, United, and AA this year. Won't dox myself getting too specific, but multiple cross country flights with each. Always the middle or middle front of the second main boarding group.

Both. Maybe I'm not describing it right, but the air nozzles in most larger aircraft have been slightly adjustable for a long time. They are typically like a ball in joint socket you can point anywhere in its cone of motion, and that you can twist to open or close. This has been standard on flights for a really long time.

Newer flights have nicer versions of it, but some form of directional air nozzle has been around for a long time.

In the US airlines at least, most lately let you angle them like a ball-in-socket joint. They aren't too "customizable" but you can generally point them and adjust how open they are. Older planes are less adjustable however.

This is good advice, though honestly I would advise waiting till you arrive and doing your washup at your destination.

If your airport is only 30min from the hotel, I say forgo his and just endure. If you land and the. Have 2+ hours more to your final destination, the I'd do it in the much larger and more accomodating airport bathrooms.

Unless on a very tight schedule or travelling in a big group, just ask your partners to wait and give you 10 to 15 to manage business. Be quick, but it shouldn't take too long to strip down and hit your body with some body wipes. When you come out refreshed and in different clothes they will understand.

Which type of Manta did you go with. They apparently have quite a few variants, and I might invest in one for my next flight.

Sleeping is hit or miss for me. I find the smaller/shorter you are the more likely you can sleep well, bit if you break out all the tricks it may be possible for tall folks too.

I listed my tips elsewhere, but slip off shoes, using the headrest wings, noise cancelling headphones with background non-verbal music, and maybe an eyemask give you good odds I suppose.

Build a flight routine:

1. Screenshot your QR code to board. Crop it to just the code so your boarding zone is missing, and board in the middle of the second main group (Zone 2, Group 2, Etc. Not any of the special categories). No one will stop you.
2. Pick a seat in the back of the plane. You will deplane slower, but no one fucking cares unless you have a connection
3. Because of 1), you will board and head straight to the back, giving you time to sort your carry on and backpack/purse.
4. Stow the carry on immediately, drop your bag into your aisle seat. Remove your seating essentials once you size up your seat.
5. Bring a magnetic phone mount you can clip to the closed tray table (check amazon for one you like), plug in your charger brick, but not the cable, other passengers will kick it.
6. Open the overhead air vent nozzles to full, point them at your seat. If you sit, and it's too much, point 1 or 2 of the others away. If you like all 3... Hope the other passengers never notice.
7. On a long haul you will probably be given a little pillow and blanket. Temporarily toss these in the overhead ontop of your bag. If need a neck pillow, get that out of your backpack. For lumbar support, if you think the provded pillow is enough, grab it after takeoff. You don't want the blanket or pillow now.
8. Stow your water bottle (bring a refillable 24oz or 36oz tall steel bottle). This will hold the flap of your seat back pocket open a bit. Stow any snacks you want, and gadgets. Overload this pocket, items you consume will decrease over time, so anything goes here, stuff it.
9. Once you have everything out and stowed, your gadgets, headphones (I recommend over-ear noise canceling if you fly frequently) your phone mount your everything, then stow your backpack in the overhead. Again, no one will stop you. The flight attendants are helping load the plane and prep, and people do this anyways. On a long-haul it's first come first serve, hence the seat selection toward the back.
10. Raise all the arms of the seats on your asile. This will let the other passengers get in faster. Raise the aisle armrest by pushing the button in the back of the arm by the hinge.
11. Wait, and fully extend your seat belt while you wait, so it's super easy to grab and buckle later. Wipe down anything you like with a wet wipe, especially your headrest and armrest handles. Keep the armrests up though.
12. Once your seat mates have shown up, lower the two arm rests closest to you, and plug in your charger cable to the charger brick. Buckle up loosely.
13. After takeoff, use the rest room immediately, grab your blanket if you want to rest, and settle in. Late notice, but if you wear slip ons: slip them off now and relax in your seat. You can change socks after landing. Your feet will thank you. At this point, raise the headrest if you need to, and bend the sides, most headredts are now adjustable on the sides as well and can form a C shape to support your head. This is not as good as a neck pillow bit helps tons when combined with one.
14. During flight, press the hinge button on your asile armrest again whenever you need to get up, to make getting out easy. If anyone needs out, grab your phone, and unplug your cable from the charger brick, and sidestep into the aisle, take two steps forward or back, away from the nearest restroom, and then reseat but don't lower the armrest until they return. DO buckle again. (Freak turbulence on long hauls is no joke sometimes).

Bonus 1) Lookup and purchase a plastic shim for AC adapter prongs online. Maybe 5 bucks, infinitely reusable. US airplane plugs tend to be very very loose due to extreme overuse. This will keep you from chasing your charging brick around the floorboards.

Bonus 2) For headphones, Bose Quiet Comfort or Sony WH1000XM3 or XM4s. The XM3 and XM4s IMO are superior noise cancelling to the Bose (subjective), and both fold up and are more compact than the later Sony XM5 series. You can find either of these "renewed" on Amazon sometimes for a huge discount. Buy them and never look back.

This works on 99% of flights. You get to stretch out as much as your seating allows, should have all your stuff accessible, and be comfortable to rest if you can. Personally I am too tall to sleep comfortably on most flights so instead I listen to podcasts or read something with very low volume background orchestral music as background to avoid silence/white noise. You'll have to adjust for what works for you, but that early start gives you tons of time to get situated and I think this makes the real difference.

Cause it's funny

Try harder, you can do better than this.

The US Army published a measured response to the implicated poor behavior of an on duty servicewoman at ANC.

The Army would very much object to this being categorized as "against" Trump. Rather in defense of their service members and their correct actions.

The Army is careful not to overextend itself on political rhetoric and invite too much politics directly.

There's gonna be some edge cases like charitable corporations that own property for homeless or something we aren't considering. Blanket bans are rarely the answer.

Even Japan doesn't ban guns. You need to pass tests, have a license, and be subject to storage requirements and inspections of that storage. But it is not banned.

Sure, in a school with a few thousand kids that is still a few dozens students making AI generated nudes. Larher the school, bigger the problem.

Still, even assuming Rumor mill inflation drives this down by a factor of 10, and we slash it down, there are a handful of kids probably doing this, which isn't surprising, bit is extremely upsetting.

Nope.

This is why anyone not huffing paint has stayed far away from NFTs.

Cripple the speculative housing bubble by making corporate property ownership of single family or multifamily dwellings limited to maaaybe 100 properties. Probably less, like 50.

Give them 5 years to unload assets that are in excess of this legislation and get it passed.

Doesn't affect business. Doesn't affect developers, doesn't affect anyone but vulture venture capitalists.

See, the issue is over time they have carved more and more out of stock AOSP and made it closed.

The AOSP camera is garbage, but it doesn't have to be. I think the Pixel line could still have done great with Google backporting these Improvments even on a delayed release window. But you have people literally stealing the camera apk and manually patching it to run on other devices because Google won't do this.

https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/

Not to mention the sorry state of stock apps like calculator and calendar, notes, all ignored in favor of a competing google service... Which Google sometimes still ignores (Keep)

I'm happy Google made Pixels, but I think in the switch from Nexus to Pixel, the loser was the AOSP program, which now feels more like a skeleton that requires a full OSS team or corporation to finish it. Too many basic QoL changes are never backported.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mozilla-firefox-chrome-review-comparison-2020/

This is from 4 years ago,. Again, stock browser without a busted extension causing a memory leak, the browser runs solid.

https://cloudzy.com/blog/which-browsers-use-the-least-memory/#Firefox_vs_Chrome_RAM_Usage_Comparison

Run a real world test and you'll see what I mean. Their RAM consumption is pretty much on par, and varies between update cycles but not wildly.

https://youtu.be/YQcslo9OqtE?si=FvI-Hk7vk46H5U67

From 3 months ago, with graphs. Firefox and Chrome have had near identical performance for years.

"Moving the goal posts" I fail to see how I'm changing the conditions. I'm explaining a clear and obvious issue in that image which is why it's not a good comparison.

Okay, extensions require container processes, for each one. Each new extension add to the RAM usage. For both Firefox and Chrome.

So already the comparison is flawed because Firefox now requires more base memory to load those extensions out the gate.

But now, Firefox is clearly showing Tampermonkey in the toolbar, a userscript extension. Let's just say I run a script that fetches competing price info from temu.com when you browse a site like amazon. Not uncommon.

Let's say I set that to loop, so it'll work on infinite scroll pages too.

Okay, now if you leave your browser alone for an hour and it's refreshing these scripts, guess what happens to the memory?

Every test of current builds of FF vs Chrome has found extremely negligible performance differences when both are stock installs.

I'm mad that

A) Major devs get it early B) Google has cut so many APIs out of it and pushed them into Play Services (Google only, closed) C) So much of the stock Android experience has been completely ignored and neglected now that Google launched the Pixel line. Unlike Nexus, Pixels are filled with "exclusives", and instead of just being the best place to use android, it keeps features from others.

Oddly, most Japanese arcade games are running on Windows, for ease of portability in their market, which makes PC ports actually extremely straightforward.

Source: I got to use machines when they were doing a reboot and the whole interface loads up for the multi-game cabinets like a emulator frontend that just launches and kills the processes.