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Mine already had 6gb ram so I didn't upgrade it as it seemed sufficient for Windows-10. If yours has only 4gb currently, probably worthwhile to upgrade that also. Also, while it was open, I gave it a really good cleaning, Lint really packed around the processor. EDIT: Just realized you already said you have 8gb ram so no issue

Don't be surprised if you start receiving some low value CODs you never ordered. That happened to me after a similar scenario. They count on a small number of people who cant resist paying to see what it is or maybe believe it's something another family member ordered.

I have a 10 year old 15" HP Pavillion "Sleekbook" Like yours, some keys weren't working, it was very slow on it's best days and the battery was long gone though I actually rarely needed the battery in the first place. I was going to bin it but a friend suggested it was still basically a good machine for what I used it for. He showed me a few YT videos on upgrading my specific HP and since free time is something I have in abundance, I decided to give it a try. A new keyboard on Lazada was less than B1000 as was a battery. An SSD was about B1500. I bought a set of small size screwdrivers at a B20 store. It took a few days but with the YT video to guide me step by step, it went surprisingly well. Used free Macrium software to copy the old HD and Windows onto the SSD. Shockingly, it booted up first try and has run very well since. It's five times faster than it ever was, no sticking keys. The battery I bought was crap, died after six months but I really never need it anyway as the old laptop is too bulky to lug around. Even if you take yours to a shop and have them do the work, it shouldn't cost more than B5-6000 and you end up with a good working machine you are familiar with.

Dramamine, nominally for motion sickness has always been a dependable sleep aid for me with virtually no side effects, no morning fuzzies.

Well then, as a singularly youthful thinker, Perhaps a session on ChatGPT will provide the answers you seek.

The Thai Embassy/Consulate in PP has never been a particularly welcoming or helpful place. Agency fees are cheap and well worth the hassles avoided. It's been many years since I used one so I have no recommendations.

Not too difficult. An airport such as BKK has departures to a finite number of final destinations, passengers terminating in any of the hundreds of other possible destinations connect from the initial destination. Thus, a flight say from BKK to FRA (Frankfurt) may have passengers connecting in FRA to dozens of destinations spread around Europe.

Considering there are hundreds, if not thousands of possible international departure points, it would be quite a monumental task to to provide up to date data for all to a single destination. Perhaps OP might go to a flight tracking website such as "FlightAware" and backtrack a list of all international flights arriving at BKK over any given period of time. "I realise this will probably confuse many over a certain age. So confused emojis fully expected. Any advice from those born in the last 200 years will be appreciated." As the OP seems to consider himself a singularly youthful thinker, perhaps he might engage a brain cell or two of his own.

On a FB Pattaya food page, several people recommend a beef market in the Rai Vanasin evening market on Soi Country Club. They claim they get excellent cuts of beef at very low prices. Just before the "Mr. DIY"

I was stationed in Morocco many years ago. During orientation, we were warned about buying the meats hanging in local market stalls. Specifically, we were warned NOT to buy any meats WITHOUT flies around it. It seemed that some meat sellers figured out Americans hated flies so sprayed their products with "RAID".

My dad was an avid "Ham" radio enthusiast. (K1CNW) One of his happiest days ever was when he purchased, then set-up a 2nd hand Collins receiver, the Holy Grail for hams of that era, that another ham was selling. He was a clergyman and IIRC, he wore his clerical collar to the transaction, hoping it would assist in knocking a few dollars off of the price. Old calculators have been mentioned. One of my favorite lifetime moments was when I quit and walked-off one of my most odious jobs ever; doing time and motion studies then production rate settings for piecework workers winding coils in an electronics factory. It was a terrible job as I was loathed by everybody. The workers angry, convinced I set rates too high, management convinced I was in league with the workers and setting them too low. The calculator occupying a third of my desk was a huge, ten rows by ten columns of keys, mechanical monster that operated on revolving cams to complete calculations which could stretch on for several seconds or more, depending on complexity: "ka-ping-ka-chung-ka-ping-ka-chunk" One day, as some assistant to the assistant manager berated me yet again for some algebraic transgression, I decided I'd had enough. I got up and in as many words, told him to stuff-it. Just before leaving for the manager's office to quit, I entered the highest number possible: "9999999999" into the calculator, then divided it by ".0000000001". The manager was still angrily shouting at me as I walked past my office on the way out. There was a small cluster of assistant managers gathered around my desk, all with perplexed faces: "ka-ping-ka-chung-ka-ping-ka-chunk-ka-ping-ka-chung-ka-ping-ka-chunk............."

If you have any doubts about your documents, go into one of the copy shops next to Immigration on Soi-5. They know exactly what copies you need and will put it all in the correct order. They are always up to date on Immigration policies and the charge is minimal. Pattaya Immigration may look chaotic, especially with the current construction in the front area but wait patiently, get your queue numbers and it all goes along pretty well.

A friend in Khon Kaen had urgent bypass heart surgery at SriNakarind Government Hospital in Khon Kaen City last year. He believes he got excellent care and had a full recovery. All of his Doctors were proficient in English though many of the nurses were not. Most private hospitals quoted B1M but his came out to about B300K, all in. If your friend needs a private room, it will be more and he will require a care giver to be in the room with him. Angioplasties with no complications usually require no more than a day or two confinement. Probably significantly less than my friends's bypass.

The way they seem to get around that 5 year expiration is the lender sells that debt to a collection agency just before expiration. The lender can they clear the debt from their books but the collection agency now owns the right to collect the debt and the expiration is nullified. It's a big loophole in the law.

The comments here show many really do not understand the depth of the problem, not only in Phuket but in most Thai tourist areas. It's not just the taxi and van drivers. All the major hotels and resorts as well as other public facilities like the piers demand payments from the drivers who "work" their property. The taxis who line-up at any particular hotel, pay that hotel (or the corrupt manager) fees of several thousand baht just to be allowed to pick-up passengers at that location. In the instance of the OP, I'd be willing to bet the drivers were angry because they paid big baht to whoever controls the pier to have exclusive rights to pick-up passengers there. This is why it's not just a problem of the "Taxi Mafia", it's the entire network of systematic profiteering from every aspect of the tourism business in Phuket.

If one watches the often gruesome Thai nightly news shows on TV, one becomes aware that of the three or four murders appearing every night, at least one will be tied to a land dispute.

Last week I was riding my motorbike down "Soi Pothole" (Soi Chaiyaphum) in Pattaya. As I got to the 3rd rd end, some Thai guys started signaling me to slow down, pointing to something in the road ahead of me. There was a large centipede, maybe about 18" long slithering across the road and they did not want me to hit it. It was the largest I had ever seen. I did avoid it as I wanted nothing whatsoever to do with such a critter.

I have a Hisense 70" "E7G, purchased 2 years ago through Lazada; Hisense store. It is used daily. I stream through a mini-PC and also view broadcast channels via antennae. It has Android TV built in but I rarely use it. I do not use it for games. I do use it for internet browsing via the PC. I an very happy with it. Color seems bright and accurate, The picture is sharp with no judder when viewing fast moving sports. I'm not a particularly critical viewer but I have run some display test like various flat color fields and the display is excellent with only minor brightness inconsistency around the edges, totally invisible viewing normal content, Sound quality is fair. I use accessory powered speakers. No performance issues at all with the TV or remote. I would buy Hisense again.

Getting bank statements for Visa renewals is much more difficult and time consuming if your home branch is in another province. Worth the time and effort to change home branch once you are relocated. It can be difficult. I opened my Bangkok Bank account at a Sukhumvit branch. Several years later, they opened a new branch much closer to my residence. Took me many visits to both branches and at least a year to finally accomplish the transfer.

A friend has a cousin who was (and maybe still is) a Hooters (Nana) girl. They all have Instagram, FB and TicTok accounts with thousands of followers. She averages B40-50K a month

Self defense?? I remember this brutal killing clearly. The Norwegian broke into the Indian man's room and attacked and killed the man in front of his wife. Total raging lunatic. Photographic evidence everywhere. Just another killer who walks:, the Brit who killed his wife on Soi Honey Inn in Pattaya, The Swede who killed the New Zealander over a fight about a dog in Pattaya, The Northern Irishman who killed a bar girl, stuffed her in a suitcase and took a taxi to the airport, the guy who killed the Nana Plaza bargirl. All arranged huge bail and skipped.

A friend used to deal in used laser cutting machines. A customer in China wanted to buy two machines, price amounting to close to US$500,000. He shipped the machines there and when he met the customer to finalize the deal, the customer presented a suitcase with the $500K in cash. He went through about 6 months of bureaucratic hell trying to get the money out of China. This was more than 10 years ago.

I have TOT 300 MPS down, B299 m. It's OK, not a lot of outages though there are often slowdowns. I was previously paying more than B700/m for 1GB down, decided to try 300down. It's been sufficient for TV streaming, net surfing and mobile wifi. No buffering when watching Netflix, though I do use SURFSHARK VPN so I can access the US Netflix and not the Thai version. Downsides are very poor customer service, never ever a notification of a service problem, unlike 3BB. Their website/mobile app is unusable. One has to physically go to their central Pattaya offices to sign-up and renew. One must also pre-pay and there is a farang surcharge. If you have a Thai partner, put it in their name. If my condo allowed competing services, I'd drop TOT for 3BB in a heartbeat.

You got told wrong. Go to any 20 Baht store.

Nearly came to pass ten or so years ago. Some here will remember the 3 months that almost the entirety of non-central Bangkok spent 3 months submerged in increasingly filthy water with no place to pump it to. I remember going to Suvarnabhumi and cars were parked on the length of both sides of the elevated highway to keep them from being submerged in local flooding. I remember passenger aircraft parked at DMK, water up to their bellies. Officials fight over reservoir levels because agribusinesses want enough stored for 2nd and 3rd crop cycles but when a series of big rains hit, there is no place to divert the water to.