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There are a bunch of condos around Tao Poon station that are new or relatively new. Ideo 100m from station back towards Bang Sue, 2 of them right next to the station, and a few more down towards Gateway Bang Sue. Up towards Bang Son you have Lumpini that just finished maybe 100m from station, and then another bunch (Supalai, Ideo, UDelight, ...) if you count around Bang Son station (that's light red line to Bang Sue, and purple line to Tao Poon). Finally you have 3 condos around Wongsawang station of purple line, What really matters is what's important to you. For below 10k baht a month you are not going to get more than 30m2 at Bang Son or Wongsawang. Around Tao Poon, rents are even higher. As for buying, they are not really cheap. Cheapest condos start at around 80k/m2 and go all the way to 140k/m2.

Then maybe online shopping isn't for you. But you could go to brick and mortar shop and pick up product from a shelf. It may cost more in time and money but at least it will avoid such disappointments. Every larger city would have Central (PowerBuy), The Mall (PowerMall), Lotus/Big C/Tukcom/Pantip/.. with BNN, JIB or IT City shop, on top of many small computer accessories shops scattered all over the country. Good luck.

What happens if he falls badly sick and needs hospital?

If Thailand post, they would bring you a piece of paper with your name and information about parcel+importing costs/service fees/etc. You go to the post office listed (in central Bangkok it was usually the one near Saphan Khwai BTS station), where you bring your passport/ID card, pay the duty and accept the box. However, you can also fill out the form, sign it, hand copy of your passport and give it to someone else to pick up for you (instructions in Thai and English are on that piece of paper postman leaves you). I've done that several times with trusted Win drivers in front of my previous residence. So you don't have to collect it in person, you can send someone else. If it is DHL delivering, they would call you and send you email and demand you pay the import duties (heavily padded) on their website to release parcel. Once paid, they deliver to your home as normal parcels that don't have duty to pay. If you refuse, they'll return it to sender. But you could also contact sender and ask them to pay duty from the other end (depending on situation).

Yeah, neither. Media companies are in trouble monetising content. Crypto currencies are just like the fallen ones based on BS, and therefore practically worth nothing. All that gives them value is the power of hope, speculation and greed. But BTC is no less vulnerable than some that have failed recently. Overall, crypto is only good for gambling, increasing electricity costs and destroying the planet. Unless you're illegal drugs or weapons trafficker, or some similar kind of criminal. Then crypto might be your currency of choice.

There is a slight challenge to my untrained eye, namely how does one get in and out of that cabin? Of course another one would be if this is about easing traffic... where would be that massive car parks that take cars off the road and occupants into these cable cars? If this is for international tourists, they don't come with cars anyway. If this is for local tourists and residents, they aren't going to take it anyway, especially if they have nowhere to park, and no easy way to get in and out of cabins, or "stations" are too far apart. So at the end of the day - who exactly is this serving? Or is it just a scaled down version of monorail? As in that case, there's yet another scaling down that needs nearly no space and construction costs, which is Dubai air taxi. Why not just replace the cabins with drones then? It's good to see that people are thinking of improving public transport, but this particular idea just doesn't cut it in any way. No matter how impressed the guys proposing it were with cable car, last time they visited Switzerland...

This is so unbelievably unique that nobody else could have possibly done it before...

And while at it, they also promised to immediately stop the war in Ukraine, end all sanctions, and make the Sun produce light at frequencies that increase performance of the solar cells... This is pure populism. Say whatever to get elected. No matter what the cost or consequences of it would be, or whether it's even possible.

2000 thb fine if you ever need to deal with immigration, according to another thread...

In my opinion - yes, Thailand could afford it. But... instead of making lives of labourers easier, it will only lead to more import of labour from neighbouring countries, willing to work illegally for less. So all in all, Pheu Thai will be able to claim they've increased people's wages, but the real effect will be that these people will lose their jobs to illegal foreigners.

Not sure if this is within budget, but just test-driving this thing (currently just in Thailand, but I see no reason it should not work from/to anywhere): https://firewalla.com/ It is basically a firewall/VPN appliance for LAN/Wifi. Idea was that it connects to public network like at a lounge or in hotel, and establishes VPN tunnel right back to your home VPN concentrator (another box from them - testing with Gold Plus), so wherever you are, it operates like you were home. The point is that you can connect several devices to this box, and make secure tunnel back to your home setup. It is not cheap though, but I am unaware of any other similar offering at a lower price point (although there is a project for Raspberry Pi but didn't bother with it).

Just as a response on Sandisk. It came with 5 year warranty as well, and is rated 2000/2000 MB/s though my speed tests showed 1650-1750 MB/s usual results writing/reading to a folder in root of the drive. I don't know how much of the limitation comes from iMac's back ports, though, so despite 40Gbps (5 GB/s) may be theoretical max speed of the enclosure, you might not get that actual speeds out of it, but even if you get half that, it's already same or faster than internal storage. So whichever way you go, I think it'll work for you. And with M1 CPU having storage integrated, so if it degrades, you need new notebook, it's good to use external storage for heavy storage tasks. That's actually the reason I use external drives for most of software and all files. 27" iMac 2020 has flash soldered on mainboard. One difference, though - on Intel based Mac you can boot from external drive. On M1/M2 Mac you can't. So you'll still need to use internal storage for OS.

There are also signal repeaters but you'd need to know exactly which frequency your telco is using in that area, as some are using different frequencies at different locations. 3G/4G repeaters with massive antennas basically are about the same thing that telecom would use, just a bit more tame and for a home use, not to rebroadcast signal miles around. Example: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/8km-3g-4g3g-umts-850-1800-210024dbi-i2887027135-s10535925900.html But really, don't buy this unless you know what frequency your telco is using as buying wrong one won't achieve anything.

I had very high failure rate of the external M.2 SSD enclosures, some have not just failed but made stick unreadable and unable to format again. Internal drive (2TB flash) in my case is at ~2750 MB/s and external at ~950 MB/s (WD My Passport SSD) and ~1700 MB/s (SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD), according to BlackMagic Disk Speed Test. R and W are very close, nearly the same. Tested on Intel i9 based 27" iMac 2020. Not sure if this is of any use.

Yeah, safe to be on 10 year overstay again... For a year until next crackdown.

Both P-trap and S-trap won't work well if you are rarely/never using that drain, as with no water in it to block the pipe, it does nothing. There's a silicone plug against insects and smell that works whether you use that drain or not, though.

I remember years ago, when Bangkok main immigration was still at Suan Phlu, an officer at the counter next to mine looking at a young foreigner's visa in passport... it was ED visa renewal time... Apparently the guy studied Thai language... officer looked at him, then said: big fish eat small fish... farang looked clueless... so officer said again: big fish eat small fish... still confused silence... lastly the officer said: alien is here to have fun, not learn.... again nothing.... extension rejected. So it could happen. But not at the airport. They only see visa type, but don't have all the paperwork on what the applicant is studying. It could be asked, however, and if foreigner says Thai, it could be tested right there. But not if tourist is entering on a tourist visa. Why would officer be asking tourist about what the reason for his previous trips to Thailand was. Entering on another ED visa of course gives immigration a reason to ask what is being studied. It is immigration officer's job to filter out those who are trying to game the system or come with non-genuine intent. And just this forum is enough to see they are doing a rather poor job given how many members work around the rules, change visa types and use agents to get them visas and extensions they certainly should not be getting. And that's a big benefit to those breaking rules, but it adds stress to genuine tourists and travelers, as they get quizzed or even rejected for doing nothing wrong. Fire off...

I wanted to renew (or rather move from pink paper to plastic) drivers license a few years back in EU, and was told I can't get it as my address is outside EU. So I had no choice but to drop that and get a Thai drivers license. A friend there has a Thai wife who has a Thai drivers license and wanted to get one locally there - no, not accepted. She would have to go and do all the theoretical exams, practice drive with instructor and then pass the driving exam. She can still use Thai license with international driving permit, but it means coming to Thailand to issue IDP every year. So if you can keep one from home country, you should.

Unless their parents come with the couple, and report them to police, why would they fear? First of all it won't come in effect for 3 years, and when it does, the only one who can make a report that could result in jail time would be a direct family member (parents, children, spouses, siblings). Now if you have a nasty family that would report you for sleeping with your girlfriend, your problem might not be Indonesian law but your family.

Why bother with the car? There are tens of thousands of CCTV cameras around the country. Why not simply link those to face recognition software and compare with immigration mugshots and database of entries/exits from the country. There are several companies providing software (and hardware) for such systems, most notably NEC, if there's concern about Chinese companies, where several vendors offer very good tracking and face recognition systems.

How about a trip to Penang, Malaysia and back? About 3900 baht return flight leaving Saturday, returning Sunday. Stay at some nice hotel on the island and fly back through airport, which should give you less hassle than land border. This was just a quick check on Google on Air Asia tickets (from Don Mueang):

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And then you wonder why Thais hate you?

There were several promotions of Samsung and LG TVs of 8-9k baht lately, brand new with free delivery. You could go to Kaidee.com and see what you can get there, but it won't be a whole lot cheaper, it's no guarantee it would work beyond the moment you buy it, and might not look very pretty. If you can't read Thai, open it in Google Chrome, and use translate to English function: https://www.kaidee.com/c77a4190-electric-tv_hometheater-samsung?tv_hometheater_size_end=55&tv_hometheater_size_start=55

I was seeing a condo unit that had a tenant. It was agreed with the tenant up-front when I could go there and how long I could stay. I ended up not taking the unit, but if I did, it was expected that I would continue allowing the tenant with the rent for the period agreed. Sometimes having a tenant is a plus for someone looking to buy unit to rent it out. It's a minus for someone buying to move in. For the rest, usually there's a termination clause of the contract, maybe 30 days notice or alike, where either party can terminate the agreement. But as others say - the owner decided to sell, expecting the prices of real-estate would drop significantly in the next 6 months or so. But, if you know that prices will drop, will you buy now? I can't see there would be many takers for that place anytime soon. It's worth shopping around for another place in case things go south with new owner who actually buys the place, no matter how unlikely.