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Why not a streaming stick? You can watch anything you have at home, or jellyfin and also everything you have at home.
Because not every hotel lets you connect to “home” or has internet good enough for a streaming service.
Of course you can connect to home, that’s just using the internet.
I don’t think I have been in one with such bad WiFi I couldn’t stream in years.
If a hotel has bad wifi, and really most do (just not that bad) I would be black listing them immediately.
Not everyplace allowed non-standard ports (ports other than 80/443).
Don’t really need to, but you could get around that easy enough if you wanted to.
Not what I want to do when on vacation.
Weird that you think ports have anything to do with it.
Did you actually downvote me, lol?
Just say you don’t know anything about it, it’s not like it takes any effort. I also enjoy watching my shows and listening to my music on the plane with WiFi.
I have been traveling for days now and it’s been zero issues as usually.
Well, my laptop bag has a Thunderbolt to HDMI cable in it. So that beats any streaming stick. Though the streaming stick doesn’t have to deal with overscan and other issues. It’s not a bad idea to add one to the tech bag. I’ll have to look into which ones let me do what I want.
Yeah, I do my laptop just because I always have it, since I’m always doing work in whatever downtime there is, people showering, whatever. Remote is nice. I have been lazy enough to remote desktop from my phone to the laptop to change things so I didn’t have to get up. It is incredibly inefficient.
Its so much simpler and you have a remote.
Do you have a recommendation? I’ve had a Fire stick in the past, and it was a POS (I had the entry model, paid like 20 for it). Roku has been enshittifying lately and so has Fire OS. I’d want to be able to cast to it from the MacBook or my iPhone, or my wife’s Android phone. I do have an Apple TV box at home, but I’ve never taken it to a hotel room.