Fuck my prior preparation day with the Chromecast with Google TV before the hotel checking…

I don’t travel too often so my Chromecast needed some tweaking (AKA updating system and apps etc), I like to take it as a travel companion and found out this shitty frame around the TV.

It is the first time it happened to me, I can see this being annoying for frequent travelers.

  • m-p{3}English
    29•8 months ago

    I’d leave a terrible review solely based on this, fuck everything about that.

    At least add an HDMI port below the TV as a part of the cabinet if you don’t want customers to fiddle behind the TV…

    • @linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•8 months ago

      I stayed at a hotel in California near San Francisco that did this. 2 days into my trip I figured out that they had mounted a remote plate around the corner and underneath.

    • @cRazi_manEnglish
      6•8 months ago

      It may be for the aesthetic rather than to stop people from tampering behind the TV.

  • GhostalmediaEnglish
    23•8 months ago

    Last month I stayed at a W Hotel - Marriott’s upscale hotels. Their way to encourage paying for TV was to simply not even offer free internet access. I was there for a week and they wanted $75 for internet access. I pay that for a month of gigabit fiber at home.

  • @_cnt0@unilem.orgEnglish
    6•8 months ago

    Why does this photo(?) look like digital concept rendering from ~2000 without antialiasing?

  • @Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4•8 months ago

    Back in the day they used to do similar things. I have disassembled, with tools, some hotel mountings and such, so I could hook up my Super Nintendo or PlayStation back then.

  • @jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    3•8 months ago

    I’ve stayed in hotels like that, but they usually have some panel or port somewhere with TV inputs.

    • Tanza
      10•8 months ago

      definitely an option after a long day of already going out and exploring and being tired at 9pm

    • kratoz29OPEnglish
      5•8 months ago

      Of course, but I am not that adventurous to do that in CDMX at night.

  • BappityEnglish
    1•8 months ago

    is it a plastic or some weak kind of frame or straight up cement/plaster? how completely unnecessary >_>

    • kratoz29OPEnglish
      2•8 months ago

      I’m out of the hotel right now, and didn’t pay much attention to it, but it seemed like wood

  • downpunxx
    0•8 months ago

    Invest in a cheap amazon projector or large expensive tablet add one more thing you gotta schlep around on business trips