I guess this applies to a relatively small subset of population who are always on the riad and travelling for work.

One must have a nightmare of a vacation to even consider turning on a tv in an hotel room, I can't even remember the last time an hotel TV served any other purpose than hanging a wet towel.

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Arainach 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It means access from anywhere.

Want to watch an episode of that series while you're sitting at work waiting for a long test pass? Plex.

You're hanging out with friends and they want to watch that movie you own? Plex.

You're at the gym and want to watch The Wire instead of whatever reality show is on the gym TV? Believe it or not, straight to Plex.

To your direct point, it doesn't have to be a terrible vacation. Any time I plan a vacation longer than a week it includes down day(s) with no itinerary, just recuperating. Sometimes that involves staring at a screen. Sometimes I've been out for 10 hours, it's only 7PM and I don't want to go to sleep, but I want to chill out in my room (maybe I'm overstimulated, maybe I'm just tired, doesn't matter).

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prmoustache 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I guess we are a different breed. I didn't even knew there were TV in gym clubs (I am exercising outside, never understood paying for exercising either). I don't really understand why someone would be so little engaged on his exercising/training/sport that they would need a screen to entertain themselves to be honest.

That is interesting to hear, a completely foreign concept to me that sounds a bit like addiction to be honest.

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Arainach 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

If exercise was pleasant you wouldn't have to remind people to do more of it. The only thing worse than running for an hour is running for an hour and actually paying attention to the complaints your body is sending while doing so.

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theshrike79 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> I am exercising outside

Doing deadlifts outside when it's -30C is pretty hardcore.

Also what's "engaging" in running? You put one foot in front of the other, it's not exactly something that needs 100% of your brain power to execute.

	▲	prmoustache 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well I'll give a pass to those who live in Siberia, Ulaanbataar or anywhere else with permafrost then ;-) My experience in cold places, especially those with a lot of snow and ice, is that there are usually enough chores to do that skipping deadlifts day is not really a problem though. > Also what's "engaging" in running? You put one foot in front of the other, it's not exactly something that needs 100% of your brain power to execute. I guess that is the difference between running or cycling outside and doing it on a machine.

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entropicdrifter 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I can do all of this stuff with my Jellyfin server for the yearly cost of a domain name

	▲	Arainach a day ago \| parent [-]
		This thread was a "why does remote access matter", not a comparison of Jellyfin and Plex. I run both and Jellyfin is very clearly an open source project. By that I mean that the interesting technical problem (streaming) is implemented rather well and there is a UI that technically has buttons to expose the things it does while simultaneously not being good at many of the things people use Plex for. Jellyfin's remote access story is "set up a VPN or Tailscale". Plex's remote access story is "it works". Jellyfin's story for accessing content from multiple servers doesn't exist. Neither does a global auth system for sharing access to your library, having friends, etc. Jellyfin's sorting, filtering, and searching are just OK. Its web UI is nowhere near as nice for libraries of O(1000). Real world example: I was at an AirBnB last week that had a Roku TV. To get to my Plex library I installed the Plex app. There was a Jellyfin app but I couldn't use it because there was no VPN client for the TV, and I don't feel the need to set up and run Tailscale when I already have Wireguard.

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theshrike79 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So on vacation you just come to the hotel room and fall on the bed. First thing you do when you wake up is leave the room?

Seems like you don't need hotels, a hostel would work just fine :D

Some of us need to unwind even on "vacation". Just get your feet up and watch your shows and relax before hitting the sack.

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prmoustache 2 days ago | parent [-]

Well usually if I am on vacation that is not to stare at walls but to visit, enjoy the place I am visiting and and experience stuff so yes I usually only come back to the hotel room either to wash/change myself or to sleep and/or have sex.

Are you staying all day in your bedroom when you are home?

	▲	unixhero 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Vacation is also transit, a Mariot here a Hilton there. I watch content curated by me or YouTube.
	▲	IAmBroom a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Maybe different people vacation differently. Maybe that's OK.

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bityard 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What I want to know is, what happened in your life that turned you into the kind of monster that destroys hotel electronics with wet towels when there are always perfectly good towel racks in the bathroom??

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prmoustache a day ago | parent [-]

In my experience there are never enough towel racks or they aren't wide enough for the towel and the bathroom ventilation is usually set to stop automatically when you close the door.

Hotel electronics do not have feelings so I don't really think that the monster qualification applies, and they are probably ok anyway as they are so rarely used and have time to dry before being powered on thanks to the aircon helping maintaining a dry air. I don't think the actual electrical components do suffer from a lot of moisture from the towel.

	▲	IAmBroom a day ago \| parent [-]
		You can't know for certain that modern AI-imbedded electronics aren't sentient and humidity-averse... YOU MONSTER!