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On 10/30/2019 at 2:32 PM, JamJar said:

http://osxdaily.com/2018/09/29/download-full-macos-mojave-installer/

 

 

Thanks, @JamJar.  With those instructions I've now got a clean install of Mojave.

Thank you @JHolmesJr, very much.  Your advice led me to a successful clean install.

On 10/28/2019 at 11:35 AM, JHolmesJr said:

download the latest OS from the App Store

I did that.

On 10/28/2019 at 11:35 AM, JHolmesJr said:

Learn how to create a bootable copy of the OS on a USB stick..

Searched for instructions and did that.

On 10/28/2019 at 11:35 AM, JHolmesJr said:

For your Mojave instal, try this.
http://osxdaily.com/2018/09/29/download-full-macos-mojave-installer/

That was exactly what I needed to get started.

Decided to do clean install in a separate partition.  Will be a lot of work to re-install apps, set preferences, etc, but had not done that since 6 years ago !!    Next time I buy a computer, I'll look for a "self-cleaning" model.

At the App Store download site, signed in with my App Store user ID, trying to download Mojave:  The little progress bar has not moved at all in 1/2 hour.  Other downloads/uploads work fine -- proof is the screen image below.   What to do?   (Sleepless in Seattle?  I am totally lost on a computer in Bangkok!)

35 minutes ago, JHolmesJr said:

Yeah...usually you have to check the 'purchased apps' section....if you downloaded Mojave earlier, you can do so again, otherwise it won't show there.

Maybe that's the problem.  I never purchased Mojave.  Was it a paid upgrade?  If so, I'll pay, but where and how?  I searched on AppStore for Mojave and got nothing but incidential apps.  What did I miss about Mojave?

@jHolmesJr - Thank you for that "Pro Tip".  Unfortunately, App Store does NOT show Mojave on this computer.  It simply is not there.  So I went to the OSXDAILY link.  Thank you for that.  I printed out the instructions and will follow the steps.   (And yes, I already have backups of everything on two different external drives.) 

I'm desperate, really, for help with my MacBook Pro.  Trying to upgrade Sierra to Mojave.  In my App Store page, Mojave upgrade simply doesn't appear.  Download from Apple Support doesn't download.  What to do?  Where to find someone who can do the upgrade from Sierra to Mojave on a MacBook Pro Late 2013.  I doubt the local Mac service center will even touch such an old Mac.  I don't know where to turn.  Any guidance will be much appreciated.  Thank you.

22 minutes ago, Greyhat said:

None of these tasks sound particularly arduous

That's exactly what I thought.

Thank you, @grayhat.  Sending PM.

 
Where to find in Thailand, someone to help me with software on a MacBook Pro?  Paid, freelance, work.
 - English speaking.
 - Western thinking.
 - In person, in Bangkok.  (Don’t want advice on forums or “remote” working.)

Years ago Craig’s List Thailand was a possible source for finding a computer consultant, but these days seems a wasteland.  Putting a classified ad here on TV got no results for this request.  Computer shops are Thai staff with "local" ways of doing things.  I don’t know where else to look.

I read about “digital nomads” in Thailand.  That would be fine.  But how to contact them?   A “backpacker” passing through would be okay, too, if he knows the Mac very well.  A fellow expat who lives up country and visits Bangkok would be very good.  But how to find people like that?

None of this is programming or web development. (That could be handled by remote workers).  This is a variety of small projects to optimize computer use.  Here are examples of what I’m looking for:

•  Set up a Searx instance.
•  Change default search engine on browser.
•  Improve security on WiFi.
•  Move my "system" from old MacBook Pro to new Mac Mini.
•  Refine Keyboard Maestro macros.
•  Optimize backup procedures (using SuperDuper).
•  Spin up a Digital Ocean droplet for Unix
• ... and more

When you need Mac computer help in Thailand, where do you look?

Thank you.

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2 minutes ago, Thomas J said:

Taking from those who produce to redistribute to those who don't is a prescription to forever have an underclass of people unable to find employment and escape poverty.  

Thank you, again, for writing and posting.

So refreshing to see clear thinking in the tempest of emotions and logical fallacies here.

2 hours ago, Nowisee said:

This sums it up nicely.  

Very nice piece of work in your post above. 

Thank you, @Nowisee

41 minutes ago, jingjai9 said:

Thailand is not a country of refuge and there is no interest in assimilitating foreigners into Thai culture with political rights. You are a guest in this country and the institutions are set up to perpetuate this status. 

Everything I've seen in 15 years here perfectly matches @jingjai9's conclusion above.

41 minutes ago, jingjai9 said:

I think any attempt to "stand up" will have a minimal impact. Change is not likely to be facilitated when farangs operate in the assertive mode. 

A perfect description of how local culture operates.

41 minutes ago, jingjai9 said:

Personally, I feel like a man without a country in a sense.

Yes, me, too.  In the beginning I was so happy to be here.  But now I realize I'm still here because there's no place else that much better so as to be worth starting all over again.

41 minutes ago, jingjai9 said:

I understand why Thailand wants to protect itself.

As is natural for any group, tribe, nation, culture.  Alas, in the long run, Thailand will not be able to protect itself.  It will lose to outside forces that are far more powerful.  Can see it happening already.

5 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Few Thais would know about 'gas' and those that do would not be mincing around on TV.

Excellent !  

Thank you, @daveAustin.

12 hours ago, villagefarang said:

I have found keeping my head down and maneuvering on my own has worked well over the last 40+ years so I am not about to change.  Sorry for not being a team player but I am not terribly fond of the team.????

Right on target.  Thank you, @villagefarang for explaining as you did.

34 minutes ago, Thomas J said:

 A liberal believes that somehow if you have achieved substantial financial success somehow that person OWES it to others.  Of course that same liberal will look in the mirror and say they earned everything they have and would be appalled if you suggested confiscating what they have to redistribute to those poorer.

Thank you, @Thomas J for taking your time to prepare those comments.  I certainly got value from reading.  And most interested to see those photos.

Now, to pull the topic back to "tackle national poverty", what could motivate a national leader to think that government could "tackle" that problem??  Sure, a government can take from some and give to others, whilst getting a generous cut for itself in the process.  However, that wouldn't "tackle" the problem, wouldn't stop the problem of "national poverty", merely move it around from one place to another for a time.  After a few years, the imbalances would reappear, and likely worse.  Might as well order analysis to tackle the problem of ocean tides. 

The reason I'm asking is because the current leader is a military man.  I've had the privelege of working around military officers (I was a civilian).  Whatever their other faults, military officers who make it to field grade (Major/Lieutenant Commander) and above are always very realistic in their thinking.  Not always correct.  Not always soft-spoken.  But always realistic about what can be done and what is impossible.  That order to prepare an analysis of national poverty suggests that the issuer of the order has lost touch with economic reality.  Either that, or has traded economic reality for political reality instead. 

I'm not seeking any political discussion here.  I'm asking, to be blunt, "What is he thinking?"  (And asking in a sincerely interested way, not at all ridicule.)

Thoughts, please.

58 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said:

Analysis is a massive weakness of Thai institutions. .... The system here is the top man decides what he wants and then the policy follows what the top man says.... Deference is the major weakness off the East in general

Neat summary.  Thank you, @Pedrogaz

54 minutes ago, Thomas J said:

After 10 hours pay each of them $100 but then confiscate $50 from each and give that to the children who did not work.  See how many of your children offer to work the next time. 

Yes, indeed!    Good example. 

But will "they" listen or change their thinking?  No, of course not.  Why not?  I wish I knew.  @Thomas J do you have any thoughts on why the vast majority of everyone, everywhere, can not see the obvious ? ? ?

This explains a lot of what we are seeing, and it applies equally to every country in the world - no exceptions that I know of.

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The degree of statism in a country’s political system, is the degree to which it breaks up the country into rival gangs and sets men against one another. When individual rights are abrogated, there is no way to determine who is entitled to what; there is no way to determine the justice of anyone’s claims, desires, or interests. The criterion, therefore, reverts to the tribal concept of: one’s wishes are limited only by the power of one’s gang.

-- source:  Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

36 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Absolutely. They are to keep the population in check, nothing else.

I don't want to start any political discussion here, but is there some new threat?  Or just the usual?

9 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

The Thai Navy did. When the Japanese invaded Thailand on 8 December 1941, the Thai Navy fought them for nearly five hours, until they were instructed by their government to stop.

Capitulate? Never.

I didn't know that!  Thank you, @bluesofa for that little history lesson.

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

The base there is tasked with providing security for Suwannabumi Airport and Laem Chabang port

Ah, I didn't think of that.  Thank you @PatOngo for posting.

@fhickson, you mention some interesting topics above, but the thread here is "Lunch for Old Expats".  My replies got off track somewhat.  I want to pull the topic back to "Lunch for Old Expats" and how that might be arranged.

45 minutes ago, fhickson said:

... mexico for pretty much the sole reason being it is a culture where "men do things with other men" as he puts it.

Very good point.  Thank you @fhickson

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there is also an avoidance factor i have noticed in thailand ... a suspicion there in a foreign land.  ...this suspicion and avoidance is NOT there in mexico however, and did not seem to be there in vietnam when i was there.

Very, very interesting observations.

Before deciding on retirement in Thailand, I, too, had a brief look at Mexico and next door, Belize.

I wonder if the differences you describe are due to national culture of those who select Mexico and Vietnam rather than Thailand.  It looks to me (and I am far from sure about this), that the majority of long-stay expats in Mexico and, perhaps, Vietnam are from North America.  And so their attitudes determine the Zeitgeist among expats there.  But in Thailand, the majority of long term expats have come from the British drinking classes, so that's the predominant attitude around here.  Brits are, always and everywhere, aloof from others to whom they have not been properly introduced.  And that's the best "fit" to what I see here in Thailand.  Is there a better explanation?

13 minutes ago, Olmate said:

Think maybe your last few words are the answer,.....just wing it, go to the pub ,not everyone plans who to make friends with!

@Olmate is another who doesn't read before posting.  "The pub" was covered -- and dismissed -- in Post #1 on this thread.