That hotel lobby PC in Orlando had a mouse pad made of duct tape and hope

Stopped at a hotel in Orlando last weekend for a work thing and their business center PC was something else. The mouse pad was literally a piece of duct tape folded over, and the keyboard had the letter 'E' so worn down you could see the switch underneath. I tried to print a boarding pass and it took 11 minutes because the printer kept jamming on paper that was visibly warped from humidity. The front desk guy just shrugged and said 'it's been like that since 2019' which honestly made me respect the commitment. Has anyone else found a hotel tech setup that was somehow both broken and still running?

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faith_schmidt11d ago

Man, that duct tape mouse pad is a VIBE honestly. Had a similar thing at a motel in Baton Rouge where the mouse was one of those ancient ball ones and the ball was so dirty it would skip across the screen like a scared cat. Ended up just using the keyboard arrows for everything, which took forever but somehow worked. Also the monitor was held up by a stack of phone books, not even joking. That front desk guy shrugging is the REALEST part though, at some point you just accept the chaos and move on. These places know nobody's coming back for the tech, they just need it to technically exist. Also the humidity warped paper thing is so real, tried to print a receipt once and it came out feeling like a damp napkin. You gotta respect a machine that refuses to die out of pure spite, honestly.