[ale] Linux inside

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Thu Oct 9 01:00:05 EDT 2025


That's when you stand up, pull out your mini-keyboard and portable mini 
LCD and exclaim "It's a Unix system, I know this!"

Right?

Or is that just for fighting dinosaurs?

On 2025-10-07 08:58, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:
> On 10/6/25 18:42, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>>
>> It depresses me when the in-flight entertainment crashes and I watch
>> the Linux stuff go by when it reboots.
> 
> If they can't get the movies working on international flights, be 
> certain to call and complain after the flight.  Happened about 20 
> minutes into a flight to Europe. Don't remember the exact number of FFM 
> they gave me as "compensation", but I think it was 25K, but it may have 
> been 15K. I don't recall which. I always pre-load a few audio books so I 
> can rest my eyes on long flight, but still be entertained enough if needed.
> 
> The only "fix" the crew can attempt is to reboot the entire system, 
> nothing else.
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