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Thanks In the Jungle. Unfortunately the Dell download site displays ‘This service is temporarily not available’. I will keep trying every few days.

Maybe bad news for me. My laptop is a Win 11 Acer about 6 months old, working ok. The Dell monitor is 4-7 years old. Until a few weeks ago everything worked well though I wasn’t using the Acer much. Now that I need to use it a lot I find that on Dell turn on I get a message saying no hdmi signal and it goes into all black power saving mode. I’ve given myself a few shocks when touching the cord’s hdmi-Dell end. Both laptop and monitor were bought at J.I.B. Tukcom. How should I approach this issue? Thanks in advance.

While he was doing the cataract surgery on one eye he noticed I was about to have a detached retina, so he fixed that. Thank you, doctor. At Rutnin.

Khun Sirineou, wow. That article was clearly written, I almost followed it, haha. I’m not sure what the valve issue is exactly. I will print it out and encourage her to show it to whatever doctor she ends up seeing. If I was the patient I would follow your advice. Thanks and good health to us all.

Thanks Sheryl

Thank you CharlieH and thanks to Sheryl for the reply. I must admit I regret that particular doctor names were not suggested. It will make it more difficult for me to sell the right course of action. I will try my best. Cheers, Alan

Perhaps he could pay the fine with a cheque but from an account with zero baht. The new regs, or regs to be, will make his iffy banking legal.

My sister-in-law has a heart valve problem. She has fallen several times because of the issue. She lives in Pattaya and sees a doctor on Soi 4 (I don’t know the doctor’s name). It would be best for her to see an excellent doctor in the field in Phitsanulok, 20 kms from the family spread. Failing that, an excellent Bangkok specialist would be the next best choice. I guess Rayong, Si Racha and Chonburi specialists would also do the trick. To lighten the mood, here’s how she pronounces ‘valve’. With a strong tone she says ‘waw’. Makes sense if you’ve been here for a bit. Ha ha.

A while ago, trying out my skills, I asked a waitress if she had sticky rice. “Mi kee niao, mai Khrap?” After getting the blankest stare it clicked. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Thanks MJCM. The card is not acrivated. Does Fedex deliver to my door or just to their local office?

A friend in Toronto got a bank card for me in the mail. What is the best, most secure, and speedy service he could use to send on to me the card and accompanying documentation? I realize it will be pricey, but c’est la vie.

My wife went shopping today, Sunday. 40 baht each way to and from Pattaya Tai/2nd Road. wasn’t busy, surprised her.

My wife got back an hour ago and said it was busy at all. We’ll pig out on squid, fish and shrimps (farmed, unfortunately). Pla talay, muq too of course.

Now I am thinking of buying the same unit again, maybe it’ll work longer. There is an option with an “air mouse” for 300 baht more. Why would one need an air mouse? I also saw a number of android 13 units that featured voice control of my tv. I will pass on that feature.

Sorry for taking so long to update my experience. I’ve been using the HK1 RBOXX4 Wifi 2.4/5G Bluetooth 4.1 CPU Amlogic S905X4 Android 11 unit. It took me quite a while to become adept at running the unit, which I only used to play movies, tv shows, rock concerts etc. About 6 weeks ago things started to go wonky. Increasingly it would not recognize my usb-c to usb connected disk. I switched ports, same problem. Recently it had problems with any connection (new batteries improved things for a while). Rebooting a couple of times a session became common. This morning it kinda blew up on me: stopped working, stopped during an mkv, other stuff. After another reboot there was a screeching sound from the back of the tv, and everything off and back on didn’t work. I rebooted my UBC box (it wouldn’t send to the tv until I gently hit the box a few times). So UBC was back, but no sound. The Yamaha receiver was off so I turned it on. I won’t use the Android box again. My choices are get some other unit from Lazada or buy one at Tukcom, quite near to me. What do you suggest? The thing I appreciated most about that devil Android box was there was no music during the flashy animation at boot up.

I saw that the typical Thailand b12 pill had some kind of a cyanide component (well described above). It creeped me out. I’ve been buying Eisai Methycobal B12 10-tab strip x 3 box @ 0.5 mg for 165 baht oer box. Eisai also markets injectable vials; a couple of years ago I paid 550 per 10 vial box. My clinic charges 100 baht for the injection. Since my b12 test results have been okay just using pills, I stopped with the vials.

That looks delish!

One thing I picked up on was to goto the restaurant next door to the recommended one. Saved me a bunch of dong in VN. When a place got popular up went the prices. And in VN, on a given street, the backpacker oriented restaurants had identical menus. Next door worked for guesthouses too. Good times.

I got the ACER PREDATOR HELIOS NEO 16 PHN16-71-71EE (OBSIDIAN BLACK), although I’ve hardly gamed in years, it caught my attention. The SSD is only 512, a step down for me. It looks great. since I spend most of my time on an iPad, I have yet to bump into Acer poop. What should I loose?

I’m a dufus. My google issue was because, after install, the ff default book mark was Google. I removed it. As for the bookmarks, before I was shown only ones I’d used for the last while. Now I have bookmarks going back decades, haha. When I’ve got nothing to do I’ll review them.

Duckduckgo is part of it, from my point of view. My old pc was configured well with firefox, duckduckgo was its search engine, the firefox bookmarks were fine. I should have just installed firefox on the new pc and manually added bookmarks (entering them one-by-one), and done a better job with procedures to make duckduckgo the constant search engine (without google or bing ever coming up). What I did was to follow firefox procedures to sync the old ff setup/bookmarks to the new pc. After trying to do so my bookmarks have been changed/screwed up on both units. Ugh. I will have to work to remove Google search engine as a default (overriding, somehow, the duckduckgo default I set up).

I just got a new acer laptop, to replace an old HP model. Oi! What a mess. To reduce agro I tried to transfer my Firefox (with duckduckgo) to the new pc. Oops. Now I have a modified Bing browser with bizarre bookmarks on both units. Ouch! i should have reached out before I did all this, but I was too competent, haha. Is there a way to fix my old and my new pc?

Would I be able to go to the Emerates Embassy in Bangkok and get my Thai wife a visa that covers stop overs BKK-YYZ? Easy peasy?

Are there airports in the UK, Europe, Middle East that permit both Thais and Canuks to stop over without hassle, visas, etc? i believe that South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore don’t present dufficulties.