Sorry Dave I cannot allow you to change temperature

Me and MrsRNP are in the Grand International Hotel Prague. The rooms AC controller looks like HAL and has a bluetooth symbol.

It took some google-ing but i found out its model number and there was an app. The reason for the backstory is that previous guests have obviously never connected to it.

Ive now changed the units name to ‘Hello Dave’ – I have 16 characters. Considering our location can the STW hive think of anything better to call this unit for probably the rest of time?

Hidden Camera ?

Hidden Camera ?

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Too many characters I know, but “this is not the aircon you are looking for” would have made me chuckle.

How about “I watch you poo”.

Or “lock the door!”.

Zampolit Putin?

Watching you – in the local language…

Sleduje tě

Just Heat.

I like the idea of future guests trying to order pizza via the AC unit  😉

Free Coke & Hookers

Free Coke & Hookers

There’s a Happy Hour for that!

Press here

bed bugs here!

In basement help

Czech mate!

We watch you sleeping

‘Out of Order’ 🙂

Sex Robot

Hidden Camera

Hidden Camera 8 😉

“Voice Activated”

“Game starts in 5m”

Vidím tě

Wouldn’t Hal be more applicable. We have a couple of these exact controllers at work by the way, I’m unaware of them having any camera facilities, but maybe they’ve always been watching??

“There’s a mag?”

You’ll Never Leave

Retinal scanner

Or get the translation wrong and it is a Rectal scanner…

Skener sítnice

Or…

Rektální skener

🙂 Well I suppose if someone is nieve enough too read retinal scanner and then try putting their eye to their phone………….

Well I suppose if someone is nieve enough too read retinal scanner and then try putting their eye to their phone

People do dumb shit without thinking about it when they don’t understand technology.

When smartphones were still newish, I did a presentation demonstrating an online data collection system that a friend developed. Unfortunately, I found out in front of a roomful of people that just because the phone has a touch screen, the projector screen isn’t converted into a touch screen too.

Should be “Good Morning, Dave”. If I could be arsed, I’d have the Hal 9000 camera ‘lens’ on my phones Home Screen, and change Siri’s wake up name to Dave, but I don’t use voice recognition…

Redrum

the

ring

“Check out NOW!”

 Or get the translation wrong and it is a Rectal scanner…

Wipes right

It’s your birthday,   you win a free treat.

“Game starts in 5m”

@jimmy “Difficulty: 10H”

Or playing Doom on it

Please don’t. It’s not yours to break and setting it to a comedy name like “hidden camera” is just going to make life hell for the staff. No wonder British tourist are hated abroad.

“Press for free beer”

I’m with Flaperon, very funny for a forum as a joke as t0 what you could perhaps do, but in reality it will certainly bugger up someone’s day!

As you leave the hotel do you set alarm clocks to go off in the early hours. That’s funny too, and the following guests just love it!

Please don’t. It’s not yours to break and setting it to a comedy name like “hidden camera” is just going to make life hell for the staff. No wonder British tourist are hated abroad.

I see where you are coming from, but a few things leap out:

The OP isn’t suggesting “breaking” anything.

Changing the wording on an AC display might cause some minor inconvenience.  I am sympathetic to the argument that it’s best to avoid the temptation as the staff are undoubtedly busy. However, claiming it will “make life hell for the staff” is a bit of a stretch!

I’ve travelled extensively and have never encountered widespread “hatred” for British visitors.

This reminds me,

I went to a cybersecurity conference a year or two back. After the event, dozens of hackers decamped to the local Foodcourtia.

They took advantage of the venue’s abject lack of attention to security, “molested” is probably as good a description as any. TV screens were pwned (not with Bombers) and so on and so forth and things of this nature.

Behind me, there was a young lad serving a young lass at a food counter. She was pretty, well endowed, and he was very clearly quite smitten. My mate’s boss sat across from me on our table goes, “watch this.” Tappity tappity on his laptop, the printer behind the till fires up, the lad looks puzzled, goes to retrieve the printout, turns the colour of a stop light and runs off into the back.

We were like “WTF did you just do?” He nonchalantly turns his laptop round to show the message he’d just dumped to the printer, “stop looking at her tits.”

I’ve travelled extensively and have never encountered widespread “hatred” for British visitors.

Travel to one of the more popular “Brits On The Piss Tour” destinations selling beer at €1 a pint and you’ll quickly find why the hatred for British tourists is both understandable and deserved.

Travel to one of the more popular “Brits On The Piss Tour” destinations selling beer at €1 a pint and you’ll quickly find why the hatred for British tourists is both understandable and deserved.

Alternatively if you’re a grown up, avoid those relatively few places like the plague.  It’s not hard. Then discover that in most of the rest of the world, where ordinary Brits, not gangs of lagered up youths go, we are as welcome as travellers from any other nation.