Lemsta69

yeah it's roughly double, I guess because they're providing two services at the same time. I assume there's a reason for doing the initial conversion & extension at the same time but it might be worth asking an agent if they can split it into two parts to give him more time to acquire the funds.

if you come in visa exempt or on tourist visa you first have to convert to a non-O visa (90 days) and THEN apply for a one year extension of stay. the agents do this in one go so you get 15 months the first time you deal with them. B27K sounds about right for that service. subsequent extensions should be cheaper, I've been quoted 12.5K in Pattaya.

hi mate, this thread describes a recent border bounce to Malaysia. the OP used a crossing I'll admit I've never heard of because apparently Padang Besar is a problem if you want to do an out/in. ps. dunno why you need to go all the way to Penang unless you want to apply for a 60-day tourist visa.

nice shill ???? I might give it a go, 1K won't break the bank.

yeah that's what my buddies tell me but I'm too much of a klutz and cut myself to ribbons. thanks for the heads-up about the Lazada fakes, I use the Fusion Power model and am running out of genuine blades that I brought with me from farangland. I was going to just order online here but now I'll re-think that idea.

that doesn't make it Thai. just like us, regardless of how long we've been here.

yes, because the useless physician spent zero time discussing the results of my sleep study and I didn't quite feel like paying loadsamoney for another somewhere else.

chicken rice is Chinese food bro.

I get that cr@p, have done since I was a kid. NeilMed Sinus Rinse helps when I can be bothered to use it. would that help the OP?

I wanted to go full Darth Vader so I went and did an overnight sleep study at my local clinic in South-West Sydney a few years ago. the rather unprofessional doctor looked briefly at my results, told me that I had sleep apnoea but it was "only xx times per hour, nothing to worry about" and shooed me out of his office. on the way out I visited the attached shop that sells you all the gear. the very helpful sales assistant described all the various masks and told me how important is was that I got the correct mask because eg. if I slept with my mouth open I'd need one that clamped my jaw shut. when I got home I googled 'how to keep jaw shut what sleeping' and came across something called the Buyteko method that involves sealing the lips shut whilst sleeping. I went to the local pharmacy and described what I needed. the girl suggested the kinetic tape that athletes use. I bought a very expensive brand called Rock Tape that's made in Cali. I used a small strip across my lips and after a few days I noticed a massive improvement in my post-waking state of tiredness. previously I was falling asleep at my desk, afterwards I had just enough energy to make it through the day. I used that for a couple of months and then stopped using it but the positive effects persisted. ps. I'm slightly overweight and unfit and apparently that has a big influence on your sleeping patterns. supposedly it's much easier for the soft palate to collapse if you're a fat c**t ????.

lolwut? ????

"karma (in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences." like I said, superstitious claptrap. we live once and then we die. there is no mystical force that judges us and metes out punishment in this or the non-existent past or future lives.

nope. that's just superstitious mumbo jumbo.

it possibly leads to the opposite, ie. a false sense of security. no need to check tyre pressure or the brakes if you've bought the right amount of garlands from the roadside vendor.

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sleep apnoea maybe? that turned out to be the cause of my chronic tiredness after going through all sorts of blood tests.

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure it's baked into the Windows system. if you go to Task Manager and end the Explorer task then your taskbar will disappear and you won't be able to use the computer properly until you either restart the machine or restart Explorer via Task Manager.

Linux, or should I say GNU/Linux distros, are not very user-friendly for a lot of people. Windows comes pre-installed with a lot of (most?) non-Apple hardware and OEM Windows licenses aren't very expensive so the buyer isn't getting reamed like you think. Most people aren't particularly tech-savvy and it takes a fair bit of knowledge to load a Linux distro onto a compatible machine. I use Windows because I like it better than any of the dozen or so Linux distros I've extensively tested. ps. I ran Linux Mint inside Oracle VBox at one point to act as a file server for a buddy of mine who is in love with rsync. so I have much more exposure to the ecosystem then just an average user. I want to love it but it just rubs me the wrong way.

his cuz is the big boss of the Comancheros apparently (see above post by @gomangosteen) so I reckon he'll be ok.

because they're bad tatts or because you just don't like tatts? I got over my 'hatred' of tatts a while ago and now I only complain if I see a dumb design. ps. "bikie" is an Aussie term for a patched one-percenter, you really want those guys running around in Thailand?

yeah probably but I just CBF with rooting anymore so I've decided to just be a lemming and run with the herd over the cliff ????

nonsense. rooting is much more complicated than that, it requires flashing the device with an unsecure kernel, unlocking the bootloader etc etc. no easy task or we wouldn't be having such a long conversation about it, OP wouldn't have to ask which device is rootable.

right, that's what I thought. so without root your options for freeing up space are limited.

right. but iirc you can't delete system apps if you don't have SU permission.