NotEinstein

Are you privy to some of the sordid happenings at your temple? As example, our abbot has a thing for young boys, and had to pay off the parents after a nipple tweaking incident recently. He was gambling 20,000+ baht every lottery 10 years ago, I dread to think how much it is now. Of course he sleeps in an air-conned room, and there are always donations required for parties (it's his birthday soon) and additional building, but he is obviously cleverer than this one in knowing not to drive.

Assuming you are married to a Thai, how often does your wife 'make merit' with your hard earned?

He didn't get rich on his own - research William L Monson

When did the rules change so that it is OK for monks to drive vehicles?

I said apparently - what does that mean in your world?

Money - we are conditioned to think life revolves around using money, when in reality your happiness is dependent upon your awareness and the personal values that you decide to live by. Once needs are met, what is in your head is the important thing, not material trappings and surroundings.

I use MyTello, which sets up a Bangkok based number that is directed through the internet to wherever you want. 0.4 baht per minute plus local call charge depending on your provider deal. https://app.mytello.com/en/

Apparently MEG (anti-freeze) soaked food permanently removes pigeons.....

Something like this:- https://shopee.co.th/⚡️ส่งด่วนใน1ชม.ทักแชท⚡️UPS-SKD-Protech-900-900VA-380W(306)-อุปกรณ์สำรองไฟ-Onsite-ทั่วไทย-รับประกัน-2-ปี-i.53549820.2002389994?sp_atk=6c083694-5fd1-42e9-9838-90dc01ce3a20&xptdk=6c083694-5fd1-42e9-9838-90dc01ce3a20 As you are using a PC, it will only last for 20 minutes or so (and less over time as the battery degrades). Enough to ride out the short outages and surges leaving enough time to shutdown. Did you try replacing the battery in your original UPS?

Getting officially married in Thailand is just a visit, with the correct paperwork, to an Amphur office

The permanent solution would be to ditch Windoze and install a Linux OS.

About 6 years ago one of our stainless steel tanks, then 10 years old, developed a couple of leaks as a result of degradation due to welding damage at time of install. I drained below the holes, applied PU sealant and a thin metal sheet patch fixed with alloy wire wrapped around the tank.

Just a mobile phone? https://shopee.co.th/โทรศัพท์มือถือซัมซุง-Samsung-Hero-E1205-(สีดำ)-ฮีโร่-รองรับ3G-4G-โทรศัพท์ปุ่มกด-i.299530624.5648184934?sp_atk=27038a8d-5688-4390-8f87-7f33c67ad7d9&xptdk=27038a8d-5688-4390-8f87-7f33c67ad7d9

The requirements do say every used page in the bank book.

The Op said he was 24x7 torrenting. Some torrent sites operate on seeding quotas. Some torrenters need to seed, or else the torrenting model of sharing wouldn't work!

Yes, the initial boot sequence needed to run from the sd-card, which points to the actual system on whatever usb device you want. The pi 4 can boot direct from usb now, so no sd-card required. A Pi 4 would be perfect as a 24x7 torrenting device. I have a pi3 doing that as well as hosting and processing the pictures from the 12 motion triggered ip cams.

Not if it is only a boot partition....

Did I recommend? I have been using raspberry Pis for 10 years, with the only failure (apart from sd-cards) being the hdmi output not producing a picture after running Kodi 24x7 for 8 years (3 Pi 1s). They are now re-purposed as ip cams and working well. The newer Pi 3s and 4s have heatsinks and fans to cope with the extra heat dissipation.

I do everything you do on a few raspberry pis.

Removing heat from a roof space is a fight against radiated heat. Air is not a good convector of heat, which explains why fans have a limited effect. If it is not possible to reduce the amount of heat getting in (an extra insulated metal sheet roof works well), the most effective way to reduce the heat radiating down through the ceiling is insulation. Modern build Thai houses don't have even the basic high up louvered vents and sofit vents to allow passive air movement, let alone insulation, apart from maybe the ceiling having a silver film, which becomes useless as the inevitable dust collects on it. I put insulation in an older house that didn't even have the silver film on the suspended ceiling. It made a dramatic difference - no need for air-con even. The roof steel was so hot during the day I could not touch it - it will be even hotter now given all the reflected heat.......

On the electrical charge rate, we own a residential block that we currently charge 6.5 baht per unit as it is costing us 6.24 baht per unit. Up until 1st Sept 2022 we charged 5 baht per unit and have had to increase in steps as the rate rose.

Red plates are what in the UK are called trade plates, which are used for the delivery etc. of an unregistered vehicle. A few years back I bought a new car, which didn't have any plates - I'd seen a few obviously new cars driving around without plates, so didn't think anything of it. This lasted for 5 months, at the end of which a police check stopped me and fined me, saying the dealer was at fault. Went to the dealer and got the fine money, but insisted they give me red plates until the white ones appeared, which they did - I wasn't going to get 3 fines and lose my licence. A few days later the dealer called to say the plates had arrived. I realized when we got the blue book and saw the tax renewal date being a year later that we had been driving an unregistered, and therefore illegal vehicle, the insurance for which we had purchased five months previously would have been null and void in the event of a claim. Go to a DVLC and you will find a window for registration of new vehicles. The dealer takes the manufacturer paperwork there and a day or two later the plates and book are ready. The reason the dealer doesn't do this at time of delivery is that the new car tax, approx 100,000 baht, has to be paid, and they want to keep that money in their account as long as possible.........

Yes, but anecdotally, a while back, whilst replacing a meter on an unearthed building close by, I accidentally shorted the live feed, and my house main breaker tripped.

Could very easily beat a nearby house if the others around don't have earth leakage detect, or even an earth. In effect, yours becomes the only point that can react to a short circuit. I recently updated an old house's supply, fitting a breaker box and earth - when I connected the earth, which is tied to neutral, there was a spark, telling me the other houses are not earth tied to neutral.

You are in a battle with nature that you cannot win, unless you concrete it over. Even if you use the most efficient chemicals, earth is full of seeds laying dormant and that will do their thing when the circumstances suit them. You could lay grass as effective competition, and then keep mowing, or just mow the weeds, as already suggested.