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I've just bumped a thread about this. Interesting. Maybe Microsoft's push to help out chip and hardware manufacturers might backfire and send many to their opposition, being Google. If Microsoft will not let you run the latest OS on older hardware, but Google will, then people might decide to jump off the Windows platform.

Sounds like you just have a few Microsoft user accounts stored in the PC. Maybe at some stage you have signed in with different email addresses, or you have permitted other people to use your PC. Go to "Settings" and then "Accounts" and have a look around. Post back with what you find. Your condo block is using the same ISP, but not using the network, like a hotel or bar, for example. However, that fact that you did not change your router's default password may mean a neighbor could have been leaching off your WiFi, so they may have had access to your network. That said, gaining access to a device is a completely different thing, and not so easy to do.

Windows 7 was a great operating system. Its user interface made sense to many. People could find what they wanted to find without too much trouble, and make tweaks also. I used Classic Shell and now Open Shell to make Windows 10 appear like Windows 7. I held off upgrading my Windows 7 machines to Windows 10 until Windows 7 reached End of Life. I installed Windows 10 on an old Core 2 Duo running a HDD that I use as a media player. I did it for practice before moving on to other machines I have. The old machine handled Windows 10 without any problems. I've just bumped a thread about Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. If Windows 10 can run fine on an old machine that from factory had Windows Vista on it, the whole Windows 11 on unsupported hardware is BS, particularly as many people around the world used work arounds to run Windows 11 on unsupported hardware and reported no problems. When the day comes, and your hardware fails, and you need a new computer, download Open Shell for the Windows 7 user interface.

Bumping this thread. We are now in 2025 and the Windows 10 OS will reach its End of Life this year. Some geeks had found some work arounds to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, but last I heard Microsoft were patching those work arounds so they would not work anymore. There were mixed posts on this thread, and others, as to whether the work arounds were still working, and Windows 11 on unsupported hardware was still receiving updates. Does anyone have a recent experience of upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware? If so, which method did you use, and do you get the monthly cumulative updates?

I checked it out and you are correct. Good for you. Enjoy it while it lasts.

The country is broke, so you can expect more "back door taxes" like this in the future, and people think the proposed changes to tax residency will not be passed.

It's more than anyone else from any other country in the world pays for a passport.

I think that's the member's point. We rely on China to buy our "stuff." Could you imagine if they didn't? We have seen what happens in Australia when China's economy slows. Imagine if they found another seller tomorrow, or just stopped buying to beat us down on price, which is hat happened in the GFC. Australia practically begged China to buy our "stuff."

I don't smoke, but it's been all over the news back in Australia about the boom in illegally imported tobacco. It's boomed because it's now around $50 a packet, where a grey import is around $25. Perhaps the day will come where we will start to see people selling home brewed beer, particularly as alcohol in Australia is taxed twice a year. Even the Chief Health Office recognizes the link between taxes making a product unaffordable, and he growth in illegally imported products. Maybe alcohol will go the same way as tobacco as it become less affordable over time. Perhaps Australians will have to start buying illegally distilled Lao Khao in the future.

There are a lot of people on welfare like this guy, and, like I said in another post, people like this get to vote, so both major parties have to throw money at welfare recipients come election time. There are whole suburbs of house commission / welfare recipient locations. Mount Druitt is / was one of the worse in Sydney. How is this on topic, well, the government has to raise tax to give to guys like this, and what makes up a lot of the $12 cost of the schooner of beer at the pub, tax.

Any savings in alcohol would be lost in public transport / fuel anyway.

So true, but Australia also has another BIG problem. The "hand up" has turned into a "hand out" over the years, with many now on welfare as a lifestyle choice. The welfare bill got bigger from today with more hand outs. https://www.9news.com.au/national/january-1-2025-changes-australia-centrelink-criminal-underpayment-passport-fees/8e58678a-4455-43c9-9ccc-6c2033d19d97 Problem is, the people on welfare get to vote, and now outnumber the workers, so it will just keep going in the same direction with Australia's welfare bill getting bigger and bigger. Thus, you can expect the AUD to continue to have downward pressure. It's difficult for a country to increase productivity when their government gives people money to stay home and play the X-Box.

I disagree that 90% of the listings are not actually for sale. Simple as that.

And the Thai government's possible, and easy solution to that is to make every foreigner produce a tax clearance certificate at extension time. Obvious, isn't it?

As I said to another member, he volunteers the information, including his financials. Do you have a comment to make about his circumstances? For someone who ONLY has the pension to live on, are they better off, financially and life style wise, to be living in Australia, or Thailand?

$1240 for passports for mum, dad, and two kids, before they even look at a small holiday to Bali or similar.

We will soon be buying back our own gas from the countries we have exported it to, but at a higher price. It would be funny, if it wasn't so serious for the Aussie consumer.

Interesting article. Paul Keating commented in 1986 that Australia risked becoming a Banana Republic. It seems we are already there. https://www.innovationaus.com/in-2019-were-a-banana-republic/ This sums it up pretty well: “Australia is devolving quite rapidly now from a developed economy to a developing economy.”

It is officially the most expensive passport in the world. No more 64 page passports. So, the cut the amount pages by half, and raised the price significantly. Just another back door tax.

For you, living in Thailand will become more expensive. Note I said more expensive, not unaffordable. If you begrudge giving the Thai government money for nothing, you are a prime candidate for definitely considering doing 179 days in Thailand and the rest of year somewhere else.

My latest thread, for example. I am informing members of the new cost of Australian passports. What have you contributed?

How many expats transferred enough money before 31/12/23 to live on for the rest of their life, given that one's end date is not know? Sure, some will cruise along on past transfers for a while, but for many, they will end up having to deal with Thai remittance tax in some way, shape or form.

Did you ever consider they may have designed it so the only way to get a tax number is to go through an agent, of which the TRD staff take a commission? Similar to those using an agent who do not have 800k in the bank for an extension. Maybe all of this is just another "tea money" revenue stream. Who knows? We will have to wait and see.

Going by you 10% figure, customers would be wasting the agent's time, so not point doing it to that degree.

Are you suggesting, and based on your figures, with 1135 properties for sale in Phuket, on only one website, but I'll use that website for example purposes, 2 out of 20 is 10%. That would mean 1135 x 10% = 135 properties that are actually for sale out of 1135, just on that one website. I'm not saying the practice doesn't exist, but to that degree, I don't think so.