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}@lemmy.caEnglish
    28·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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_man@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

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

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year 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.

    • Tanza@kbin.social
      10·
      1 year ago

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

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

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

  • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    1 year 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.

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    And very likely, the TV would be in Hotel lock mode and ignore any devices connected to it.

  • Bappity@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

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

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

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