@willsmith.fun episode 245 you mentioned plane seat power turning off/on. Working with these is something I do. If you lost USB power it means a device that is out of USB spec (switch or steam deck or laptop for example). If outlet lost power then its plane wide too much draw or a bug in our code.

It would be more correct to say too much power draw in a seat group rather than whole aircraft. For USB a seat reboot will recover it (which is something a flight attendant can do but will reboot the group so they may refuse), in almost every way it’s no different than how a linux pc would behave.

Oh fascinating. The 120V outlets have almost always cycled on and off on flights when I used them. Typically older aircraft on Alaska (mostly former Virgin A320s on flights out of SFO lately).