OneMoreFarang

For me that will never happen, because I don't invite those companies into my home. Home Assistant works fine without internet connection. There is no need to be always connected to the cloud.

I use Home Assistant. Stand alone, it does not need internet connections like Google or Alexa. When I renovated my apartment, all electrical boxes have two plastic pipes. One for main voltage, one for low voltage (LAN, 5V - 24V for LED light, etc.) I use Shelly devices like this Shelly Plus i4 - All products - Shop - Shelly ESPHome LED controllers, and Sonoff NS-Panels. NSPanel - SONOFF Official I have ordinary light switches installed, but none of them are directly connected to any lights or main voltage. The Shelly devices detect the status of the switches and in Home Assistant I can assign what the switches should do. The idea is that anybody in my home can use ordinary switches because people are used to those switches. At the same time, I can control everything with a phone, tablet, PC. I also bought already motion detection devices. Sometime in the future I will have automations that light goes on or off depending on people in the room, time of day or night, etc. I am looking forward to optimizing this over time. I can easily change any devices, cabling, power supplies, controllers. I don't plan to ever connect it to the cloud. It's not necessary. I can have private remote access if I want that. Currently I only use that to switch on my AC when I am 5min from home. This is how it looks at every room entrance. Ordinary switches, and a programmable NS-Panel.

So, according to you, if it is usually cold, then that might be a glimpse into the future, maybe in the next decades or thousands of years. The next ice age will come, sure. "The absolute changes in temperature do not look that scary but they will greatly increase" that is a prediction based on inaccurate climate models. I don't deny that human activity has consequences. But which consequences when, that is a wide-open question.

Those buildings are called "Hotel".

I know someone who had a company in Labuan. I am not sure if the following is true for all companies there. He needed an office and a local employe (I think it must be a person from Labuan). And it seems there were a couple of strict rules to follow. Initially he wanted to have the company officially over there, but the work done in Thailand and that didn't work. Sorry, I don't know more details. Just be sure you check all the requirements before you open a company over there and then find out it's not so easy.

For Thailand's street and drivers something like this is probably the best:

Possibly you missed this part:

If you voted "The charming adventurer" it's no wonder that that didn't register.

There is no easy answer to this. Another situation would be that I get sick, and my gf takes care of me. How much of my own money would I spent to live a little longer, and how much money would I leave her? I.e. would I spend 10,000 USD to live a month longer? And another 10k for another month? I think it all depends on the circumstances. Is there still fun in my life? Is there hope of recovery? I guess at some stage I wound think there is no point for living a little longer with lots of pain. But then, I never was in that situation, so I don't know.

Is there something like "the best"? Let's look at bars in Bangkok, just as an example. That one has the best music, that one the best sound system, that one the best lightning, and then there is the one with the most girls and the one with the prettiest girls (on that specific day), etc. And what counts at the end? I met Nit, this cute girl. The best sex I ever had, and she is such a nice girl. Where did I see her? I don't really remember, it was one of those bars...

If you want to spend the time, then you can look at the IKEA website and the product details and you will find the individual boxes and individual assemble manuals. They you can compare what is part of sofa X and sofa Y. If they have the same name, then likely most parts will be the same.

I thought about that. One thing what I don't like about many sofas, is that they have single seats. Like two seats for a two seat sofa, three seats for a three-seat sofa, etc. I like just a sofa where I never sit between two seats. Something like this:

Thanks It's about an hour away from me. That's acceptable. I guess I will visit them sometime next week. After that I can report here what I saw.

What I saw was in a toilet. But the principle should be the same in a water tank. I guess fewer mechanical parts is good for operation and maintenance.

Another follow-up about them. They now also replied to my second email with some prices and more information. They don't show prices on their website, so I won't publish here all the details. But to give you an idea. A Chesterfield three seat sofa is in the price range of about 30,000 THB in velvet and 10k to 15k more in "Genuine cow leather (wash off leather)". According to an attached document from them this is "top grain leather" For you leather experts out there, is that kind of leather good quality (at least in theory)? Is the 10k to 15k for leather a reasonable extra price for leather? Or does that sound too cheap or too expensive? I still don't know if it makes more sense to buy leather or no leather in Thailand. But if the leather is good quality and the price is like above, then that sounds not too bad to me.

I don't know the details. But I know there are now valves which don't need a big floating element. I guess they work just by pressure. I used them before, and they can be adjusted very accurately. I don't know the name of these things, but I guess you should be able to find them in relevant stores.

I think the guy who installed my tiles was the best worker from my contractor. It was my lucky day, because I think bad tile installation is the biggest problem to fix.

I contacted them per email this morning and I received a personal reply, in perfect English, within two hours. That is already a good start. Now I asked for more information, let's see.

About the gap: When I bought my tiles they had detailed instructions on the boxes. I read them. And I made sure my contractor also read them and acted accordingly.

I want money from the real James Bond, 007, not one of those actors! I deserve it, I am a real fan, I read all the books and saw all the videos. 😉

That whole area is lawless. Just looking at all the taxi-no-meter parked illegally is a clear indication that the police does not care - and/or is paid to look the other way.

That's a good point. I recently looked at Lazy boy furniture, and they have good information about the height, etc.

Ahhh very true! 🤣 And many women don't understand why he does that. Like, where is the connection? Our brains are different - at least in part.

Thanks I just looked at their website, it looks good. http://www.scleather.co.th/ They have the factory address and two show rooms (i.e. in Central). Did you visit their factory to get the good price? Or do you know if the prices in the showrooms are the same?

I bought most of my furniture from IKEA. For some things, like a modular kitchen, wardrobe and some shelves I think they have good options. I also looked at their sofas, and I am pretty sure I won't buy one from them. I want a sturdy sofa, because I am not the smallest guy. Looking not just at the IKEA sofas but at the construction manual (available online on their website), it is obvious that their sofas are not sturdy. And then I looked at videos how sofas are built, like the video above, and I am sure no DIY put it together IKEA sofa can be sturdy like that.