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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months ago

Rules for Portable Batteries on Planes Are Changing. Here’s What to Know.

www.nytimes.com

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Rules for Portable Batteries on Planes Are Changing. Here’s What to Know.

www.nytimes.com

@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months ago
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Some airlines in Asia are tightening restrictions. You may have to repack or turn off your batteries before boarding flights with certain carriers.
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  • @[email protected]
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    148•2 months ago

    Tldr:

    • some airlines say power banks must be within arm’s reach
    • some airlines say power banks must be stowed away

    Check with your airline before traveling.

    • partial_accumen
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      111•2 months ago

      It seems like the most practical way to approach this as an airline passenger is to place your battery into superposition where the battery can be both within arm’s reach, but also stowed away. Warning, do not observer or interact with the battery while the flight is in the air lest you collapse the waveform and lose superposition.

      • @[email protected]
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        24•2 months ago

        That seems overly complicated. How about just bringing an extra arm in the carry-on?

        • @[email protected]
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          13•2 months ago

          If you just bring s whole other person in your checked bags, you save on ticket costs, too.

      • @[email protected]
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        10•2 months ago

        Easy. You put it in your backpack under the seat in front of you with a long cable. Now no one knows it exists, but your bag is within arms reach so the battery is too

      • @[email protected]
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        9•2 months ago

        lest you collapse the waveform and lose superposition.

        But then I could reach my destination instantly!

        • @[email protected]
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          4•2 months ago

          All of them at once!

      • @[email protected]
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        1•2 months ago

        Just an arm and leave it with the battery, problem solved.

    • Nougat
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      5•2 months ago

      And the article only refers to airlines in east and southeast Asia.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      5•2 months ago

      and check if your airline allow you to use power bank during the flight and this is quite problematic for someone who want to work or play games during long flight. For now, only Cathay allows you to use it.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    43•2 months ago

    no paywall https://archive.md/Q2LvY

    • @[email protected]
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      18•2 months ago

      There are so many useless bots out there. An archive bot would be great!

      • @[email protected]
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        10•2 months ago

        On lemmy default UI, it lets you automatically replace the link with an archive link.

        • @[email protected]
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          3•2 months ago

          I’m on just a regular browser. Can I do this? I don’t use apps.

          • @[email protected]
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            4•2 months ago

    • @[email protected]
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      3•2 months ago

      The real hero

  • edric
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    23•2 months ago

    Paywalled. Here’s an alternate link: https://archive.ph/2025.03.13-082643/https://www.nytimes.com/article/portable-batteries-fires-planes.html

  • @[email protected]
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    1•2 months ago

    Turning off a battery? What? Do they mean simply not in use?

  • @[email protected]
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    1•2 months ago

    Moe 90th of your name. Meet the new and improved Moe 93rd of his name, king of the Andals and the First Men.

    • @[email protected]
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      3•2 months ago

      Dunno why you got downvotes for a bit of shitposting

      • @[email protected]
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        6•2 months ago

        Could be the people downvoting didn’t notice OP’s nick and thought this was a total non sequitur

      • @[email protected]
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        1•2 months ago

        Not sure why either, but life goes on ¯_(ツ)_/¯

        • @[email protected]
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          6•2 months ago

          here, you dropped this: \

          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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