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Ask HN: What if hotels offered extra monitors on demand?

2 points by red-iron-pine ↗ HN
Been doing a lot of travel for work lately and my eyes are practically bleeding from the work-supplied laptop.

Much of the work, when not on site, is at the hotel. After a wicked headache from eyestrain, I tried calling down to the front desk and asking if they had any spare monitors I could use. Got a solid no, but the front desk worker did mention they have a lot of work accounts / work travelers, and that might be something they think about picking up.

Later I mentioned it to a coworker and he was also interested. Thoughts?

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m348e912
Most of us have given in and just bought a portable USB monitor. Most are nothing special, 1080p resolution, but it solves the problem and they're easy enough to carry around.
nradov
I wonder what kind of security flaws could be exploited using a hacked monitor connected via USB-C?
rman666
Display porn upside down?
mech422
Nearly 20 years ago, when traveling to New York - the hotel lets us borrow a couple of monitors from the 'business center'. Is this no longer possible?

Edit: we had to go to the front desk and ask the manager. it wasn't a common thing.