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This is all old news and anyone now reacting with shock&horror only just now must have had their heads buried in sand for the past12 months... Anyway being forewarned we in Jan24 bought our condo, with certain intention of only every doing our twice 6odays visits to LOS to our new holiday home. Being prepared, the entire purchase was done with 1.8M the cash in our little shopping bag at the real estate office. Never doing any form of international banking transfers from OZ. No Wise...nothing like that... Mrs knows she is equally affected and happy to also only do the <180 days in LOS... Anybody else who read all the warnings that started filtering down from News Gazettes approx back in aug23 have also had that whole 12+months to get themselves organised... On every flight up to LOS we are carrying Max allowable Cash, and have all the CreditCards 'extra'topped up and spilling over with all those extra invisible funds for spending... feels good using a credit card as a savingsdebitcard To further isolate from any chance of copping thai taxes, we won't ever rent our most-of-the-year-empty condo either... Any/every time we send $ to our los bank account it is only done via our local thai grocery in Melb OZ... a very simple system where we hand the 1000s over to him, that simply goes into his own account in OZ... he sms's a photo of our los bank acct and the money amount details; and his daily counterparts in Bangkok simply domestically transfers the thb across to our SCBacct from his thaibank accouht 😀 No money actually moves across country borders

Read elsewhere Bidet is considering still to say 'No' - If they become stateless, the next book would be even hotter... "Ginger Megs does Scorched Earth" ... nothing else to lose...

shady protection scheme for the graveyard shift preferred... moonburn protection for those many less melanin endowed? 😎

...and that other fullscreen JapanAirlines even more so...

Every country roung ye olde globe make IDPs available via their respective Automobile Associations, so don't waste yur time going to your DLTs or DMVs...

Thanx... the Wi-Fi methods tried were: home household NBN WPA secured Wi-Fi, and also tried do a secured Wi-Fi hotspot from another android phone... For our trip i used a factory reset fresh android with nothing like Developer done to it... a clean phone Still like to know if anyone has tried to register their thai bank account using a foreign phone for verification? or is a +66 mobile mandatory? or or anyone know a thai network that has international roaming capability?

... sort of almost there... with a Peltier Cell, there is created a temperature difference between the Ceramic sides, that could easily reach a 60C difference between the plates surfaces... One side is 'colder' or 'hotter' than the other substrate side depending on the Value and polarity of the DC applied to the Cell's wiring. For the 'colder' side there must be airflow to dissipate that 'colder' air to the enclosure you want 'cooled' If you managed to achieve say a 10degC breeze, then the 'hotter' side will be lets say 60degC 'hotter' than whatever the 'colder' side got down to... This is important to realise, in that if it turned out your 'cooler' side ends up measured sitting at something higher say still at 35c, then expect the 'hotter' side substrate to be experiencing 95degC at this same time. Peltiers are rather inefficient, and there will actually be an overall 'increase' of the total environment temperature Peltier Cells overall must never be allowed to exceed the Max Temp specs of the particular Peltier Cell. Always keep in mind that one side of the Cell is always the approx 60degC hotter/cooler than the other relatively... An albeit expensive demo of this would be if after the Cell has been operating for some time, and you were to swap the polarity of the Cell; that destruction can soon follow... In practice this reperesents when you have say a peltier Esky that has a Switch for swapping between its Oven Warming Foods mode to Cooling Drinks mode... A techo description of this is that the inside plate of the Esky might have reached its 70C desired food warming temp, with the outside currently sitting at say 10decC or near depending on room temperature (assuming a 60degC difference for simplicity purposes) NOW, if you hit the Switch, the Inside Plate currently at 70degC and is the slower surface to change temperature... concurrently the Outside plate which was initially at near room temperature, quickly jumps in temperature to restore a new 60degC difference hotter than the Inner plate... This in effect forces that outer plate to quickly approach a self destructive temperature of approx 130degC... With a peltier device, the side of the peltier that dissipates the heat away, needs really to be fan force vented to outside of the room/enclosure you are in, rather like what is needed for a portable AC unit on wheels

yeah it is good at least there's more customr experiences being populated via a google search now... We popped bacjk up to LOS for a 3 wks sojourn, and went with AIS for all our connections this time round... Did all the resurrecting of the Mrs's cobwebbed passbook account, over the counter at PaTong, and all goes well using the SIM number we updated her Acct Profile to for carrying on with the SCB EasyApp. We experienced that yes all was to happen over the SIM data connection, and did find that even when properly set up, that even after fully registered, SCB Banking would never operate day by day, when trying to use WiFi for the connection. Yes it (the App) does not like a 2nd phone ie a tablet trying to connect ( we found this when trying to do stuff over WiFi on a Tablet we left daily at the hotel Room just for this... Okay so we are now back in OZ, and the first thing we tried was to reconnect, from OS... Well firstly found that AIS (well at least the 999ThB Tourist 4G SIM) only works when inside LOS, in that there is No Int'l Roaming at all... We though this might happen so had kept positive attitude that WiFi might still be usable in lieu from anywhere else around the planet?... alas Not... So now it comes down to whether it is possible to (prior to leaving LOS) to have one's account profile amended to reflect an Int'l Moble Number to replace the domestic +66 number associated? Maybe someone out there has tried this already? The other avenue is the question whether someone fluked associating a TH mobile Number to their Acct, that does have International Roaming? (as in fluked buying the appropriate carrier's SIM that has it? - and therefore technically able to transact the App whilst outside of LOS? - it is all about being able to respond to Verification Codes sent via SMS... In the meantime we have to return to resorting to visit our friendly Thai Grocer in Melbourne, to do the Transfers ye olde way - manually over the phone back to his Associate in TH...