[HN Gopher] Technology-Free Hotels
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       Technology-Free Hotels
        
       Author : colinprince
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-05-18 23:45 UTC (23 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.insidehook.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.insidehook.com)
        
       | neurobashing wrote:
       | It's really nice having the National Radio Quiet Zone
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q...
       | in very close driving distance. Camping trips are always very,
       | very disconnected.
        
       | Freak_NL wrote:
       | I'm not really bothered by having wifi or not. When I'm
       | travelling for leisure I use a smartphone to plan and look up
       | information relevant to things I want to see and do there, but
       | maps can be trivially downloaded in advance with Osmand~ (on
       | F-droid), and the rest can be done trivially on a modest phone
       | plan.
       | 
       | What sort of annoyed me on my last trip was how rental apartments
       | and hotel rooms can have a lot of though put into them in terms
       | of design, only to ruin it with a huge black rectangle mounted on
       | the wall in a central location. I've had to unplug the TV's in
       | two of these during this trip just to get rid of the bright
       | standby LED!
        
         | midasuni wrote:
         | I routinely unplug the TV - I've been in hotels where the TV
         | has turned on at 3am (maybe post power cut) blaring out some
         | noise.
         | 
         | Wifi is useful in situations like the hotel I was in last night
         | - not a single bar of phone reception.
         | 
         | The thing I do want and is often missing is a socket near the
         | bed so I can charge my phone but still have it next to me when
         | the alarm goes off in the morning and I listen to the radio
         | before getting out of bed.
         | 
         | 90%+ of my hotel nights are for business purposes though.
        
         | oh_sigh wrote:
         | When doing any kind of traveling, I carry a tiny roll of duct
         | tape(I re-roll it onto a pencil). I have it for a million
         | different possibilities, but probably 99% of the time I end up
         | using it is to "turn off" all the standby LEDs in whatever room
         | I'm in.
        
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