The one constant about my accommodations while traveling is inconsistency.
I stayed at a place once where they advertised "Colour TV", another 4-star hotel had a bezel around the TV to block access to the ports.
Sometimes I stay with friends and family, where taking over their TV is not.. polite?
Buying a throw away monitor every time I travel is not an optimal solution because not everywhere I go has such things.
VR headset is an interesting idea that I did not look into, but it comes with a learning curve, and I am not sure I want to test this on the road, maybe a future project from my office to see how comfortable enough I can be, do you have any examples or write up on how that works with X/Wayland?
I need a simple thing I can pull out of my "travel crash cart", that does not rely on anything that I don't carry with me, hence portable laptop, something in the 15-16", AC/DC should be enough, if it pulls power from the laptop that is even better, but not necessary.
I grabbed one off eBay, it was $99, $135 after taxes and fees, that way I won't cry too hard if it fails on me, we'll see.
If anyone has an experience with specific models, please let me know.
-nick
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 8:57 AM CAREY SCHUG via talk <
talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Just to make sure, trying to think outside the box, what do you need:
--needs to operate from a battery, or is AC enough?
--could an adapter to the TV in a hotel room suffice?
--an HDMI frame grabber connecting to USB on a tablet computer?
The latter is from a not recently travelling person, not sure if hotel TVs might have an accessible port for connecting a computer to. Most home TVs have HDMI input and laptops HDMI output, so all you'd need would be a (possibly long) cable. otherwise various conversion adapters are available.
also, as a non-user, can VR headsets connect to a computer to give you a virtual screen as tall as the ceiling, and 360 degrees around the room?
Unless your needs are special and/or light weight, you can visit a thrift store and get last years flatscreens for peanuts. Go to the wealthiest community around, in the poorer areas, the 1024x768 displays start at $20, in the wealthy areas, the pivot 1920x1280 displays go for $10-$15. And if you drop it, or airline loses it, just go get another.
I used an HDMI frame grabber to take the display from one notebook computer and share it in a zoom session on a desktop computer, to show real time what happens with an unusual operating system on the notebook, or installation of an OS on that notebook.
<pre>--Carey</pre>
> On 07/26/2024 10:52 PM CDT D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
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> > From: Nick Accad via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
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> > Anyone got recommendations?
> >
> > I’m not looking for anything fancy, just something that I can use
> > occasionally that won’t die after a dozen or so uses.
> >
> > I travel once a month and I’m getting too old to rely on just the laptop
> > screen.
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