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The New LG TV is in a different room ( Lounge ) but I managed to run a very long ethernet cable from my bedroom where my computers are , up into the loft and down into the lounge . .

So Ive purchased a new LG smart tv and on the back of the TV there is an Ethernet port . I have run an ethernet cable from my home WiFi router to the LG TV. The same home WiFi router is also connected to both my computers ( 1 Mac + 1 Linux ) so the TV + Mac + Linux are all on the same home network . On both my computers I have a separate desktop folder containing videos that Ive downloaded , which I can play and watch from both my computers. As the LG TV is connected to the same home network via the ethernet cable , I would like to find a way to watch the videos on the LG TV , that are in the desktop folder , on my computers. I know that I can watch some content ( Youtube ) directly on the LG TV using the internet connection provided via the connected ethernet cable , which is connected to my home WiFi router, but I would prefer to watch the videos I have stored on a desktop folder on my home computers. If possible I don’t really want to purchase a separate TV box . So I’m looking for a way to watch the videos stored in a desktop folder on my computers , on my new LG TV. Any ideas please. Tom

The wife’s widowed mother’s old house has a tiled roof that is leaking water , which is dripping down onto the lounge ceiling . Ive been up in the roof space and can see many places where the roof tiles are cracked or theres a space between the tiles where the day light shows through. I think applying some sort of roof sealer to the whole exterior area may be difficult and not a long term answer . I think the overall cost to have the whole house roof retiled with new tiles , would be beyond our financial means. I was wondering if any one had done the same as shown in the attached video, or knows more about that idea of laying Upvc type plastic roof sheets on top of existing roof tiles . Tom . Roof Sheets.mp4

Thats interesting , when I go to sleep at night time , my mind always seems to be in 1st gear and racing away thinking about so many things and it makes getting off to sleep very difficult After seeing this comment that cannabis can be helpful for sleep , I'm now wondering if there's any cannabis type product that I can take , to help me get a better nights sleep . I have never smoked cigarettes , Any thoughts , suggestions or recommendations Please. Tom .

So there I am sitting around a table at a local bar with other expats at our weekly get together . I noticed that several of the other expats were puffing away at electronic cigarettes , when I asked had they stopped smoking real tobacco cigarettes , every one puffing away at their electronic cigarettes smiled and said that their electronic cigarettes were filled with cannabis. Now Ive never used cannabis , so I asked what using their cannabis filled electronic cigarettes did for them . The majority said that using their electronic cigarettes filled with cannabis , made them feel happy and in some cases relived anxiety and stress. So that got me wondering . So what is the reason you use cannabis , is it to make you feel more happy or help you relax or reduce anxiety and possible stress related situations. Or do you use cannabis for a medical issue or some other reason . Tom .

I’m sick and tired of seeing endless videos of mindless stupid attention seeking idiots carrying out crazy stunts that lead to them to needing medical treatment . These idiots jumping off roofs into swimming pools or breaking several bones while skateboarding and not forgetting the morons inserting a firework into their backside . These halfwits who end up needing hospital treatment all in the name of seeking more views on social media , no matter what they should be made to personally pay for any medical treatment or care they receive . So whats your view on these mindless idiots posting endless '' please look at me '' videos on social media . . TomGreenNails.mp4

I recently saw some thing about using a debit / credit bank card to pay for fuel at Thai petrol stations and how in some cases the petrol station attendant takes the bank card away from the customer and then goes into the cashiers booth . Then the petrol station attendant comes back out of the cashiers booth with a hand held debit / credit card reader with the bank card all ready inserted into the hand held bank card reader machine and the customer then puts the bank card PIN number into the bank card reader machine . It seems that there may be some security concerns by allowing the bank card to be physically taken away from a customer and out of their sight. The security concerns revolve around the possibility that the customers bank card details may be taken down while physically away from the bank cards owner , including the 3 digit CVV code number on the back of the bank card. Once the bank card details have been taken down , that information may then be use for nefarious purposes . I know when I use my own bank card to pay for goods say at a supermarket , my bank card is always in view and no details are taken down , especially the 3 digit CVV code number on the back of the bank card. Some banks have a OTP verification. Before all payments proceed, and an SMS or email is sent by the bank to approve the transaction is required , but I’m not sure if all banks have that security option. One idea to help prevent possible unauthorized use of a bank card would be to remove the 3 digit CVV code number from the back of the bank card, and store that number in a secure place . Any thoughts . Tom .

Thanks , Ive now learnt my lesson , but it seems the die is cast and there’s going to be no immediate changes . One positive thing is that my wife agrees with us not giving cash to her parents but still in the back of my mind is a nagging thought of what may have been if the wife’s parents had not lost all their money to their deadbeat layabout son. Currently the wife’s parents make a small living from growing and selling vegetables. I keep wondering what would their life style be like to day if they had not lost their life savings . Tom .

Hindsight can be a thorn in the side that comes back to haunt you , like the old saying goes if I had my time over again , with what I now know .☹️ Marrying my Thai wife was one of the best things that ever happened to me , but not understanding and taking firm action from the beginning on things related to the Thai way was a big mistake. My other big mistake that still haunts me to this day , was selling my house back home in England instead of renting it out . We live and learn . Tom .

Thanks to every one for your comments and advice. When I married my Thai wife I paid no SinSod and did not have any party or celebration , we just went together to Bangkok and registered our marriage at my embassy and at the Thai government marriage office. One thing I forgot to include in my original post was the fact that my wife’s parents owned a small house with some attached land. My wife’s deadbeat layabout older brother told his parents that he had been offered a fantastic job in Korea , but the agency who offered that fantastic employment opportunity was asking for a ‘’ deposit ‘’ to pay for arranging a visa , air fare and accommodation in Korea, and the deposit amount was …. 95,000.00 Baht. The wife's parents who are poor farming folk and who worked on the land , in no way had that sort of money . What the wife's parents did have was another small house they owned in another province that had been empty for many years , so the deadbeat layabout older brother managed to talk his parents into selling that current house and move to the other small empty house in another province . The parents once they had sold their current house and moved into the once small empty house in another province , now had a bank balance that contained several hundred thousand Baht . So the parents then gave their deadbeat layabout son the deposit money of 95,000.00 Baht so he could go to Korea and in the deadbeat layabout son’s words , pay his parents back the 95,000.00 Baht loan and send large amounts of money that he would be earning in Korea back home to his parents every month . I have a funny feeling you know whats coming next .😁 Well the deadbeat layabout son paid the deposit money of 95,000.00 Baht to the employment agency and never heard from them ever again. To my utter amazement after the layabout son had lost the 95,000.00 Baht deposit money , his parents as far as I know never made a big issues about it and felt sorry that their deadbeat layabout son was scammed. Now the wife’s parents are living in the small house in another province and the money they managed to get from the sale of their first house , is now due to the deadbeat layabout son’s stupidity down 95,000.00 Baht . Around a month later the deadbeat layabout son tell his parents that his friend ( another deadbeat layabout ) is going to start a transport company delivering metal steel work for building company’s using large trucks, and the friend wants the deadbeat layabout son to become a partner in the new venture .The deadbeat layabout son goes on to tell his parents that to become a partner in the new transport company, he needs to help pay for the truck leasing costs and a rented building to safely keep the trucks overnight . The deadbeat layabout son then assures his parents that he know’s what he’s doing and this new transport business is going to make a lot of money . As far as Ive managed to find out the deadbeat layabout son’s parents ( my wife’s parents ) handed over all the money from the sale of their past house , to their deadbeat layabout son in order that he could become a partner with his friend in a soon to be highly profitable transport company. It seems that the deadbeat layabout son’s friend on receiving a large amount of money from the deadbeat layabout son’s parents , promptly disappeared with all the money . So the wife’s parents are now living hand to mouth in the small house in another province and their once healthy bank balance has all gone , due to them believing what their deadbeat layabout son had told them. Its a sad situation that the deadbeat layabout son managed to convince his parents to hand over their entire life savings . My wife tells me that her deadbeat layabout older brother is still unemployed and is still asking his parents for money . Now you can see why I don’t give any cash to the wife’s parents , as I know that money would for sure end up in the deadbeat layabout son’s pocket. Any requests for money come from my wife’s mother and my wife then tells me. My wife can clearly see the situation and is in agreement that we don’t send any cash to her parents , but help by providing things directly. Tom .

To put my question into some sort of context Ive been married to a Thai woman for over 20 years and have live permanently in Thailand for all of that time. After we first married the wife’s parents started to ask for money from us ( me ) saying that they need to buy a new gas cooker or fridge or to carry out repairs to their house etc . Being fairly new to what was expected after marrying a Thai woman , when it came to giving her parents any money , I just smiled and paid the request for money , thinking that I was doing the right thing and of course helping the wife’s poor parents along the way. Over time the number of requests by the wife's parents for money steadily grew and increased in the cash amount that they were asking for. Those requests for money always seemed to centre around the need to buy new house hold appliances / vehicle repairs / repairing their house roof etc. I never really visited the wife’s parents house very often , but one day just after the latest request by the wife’s parents for more money ( to replace broken windows at their house and replace a damaged toilet bowl ) I decided to visit the parents house a month after I had given the parents the money to to replace the broken windows and replace the damaged toilet bowl. When I turned up at the wife's parents house , it soon became apparent that ‘’ no ‘’ new household appliances had ever been purchased or ‘’ any ‘’ house repairs had been ever been carried out. It turned out that the vast majority of all the money that I had ever given to my wife’s parents in the hope that it would better help their living standards had in fact always been passed on to one of my wife’s older deadbeat / alcoholic brother's . This deadbeat older brother had constantly been taking money from the parents under the pretense that he needed to purchase and run a pickup to help him find work . To date he has never purchased a pickup or found employment of any kind. Once I found what had been going on I told my wife that if her parents asked for money , I wanted to know exactly what the money was needed for , and if the request for money involved buying new house hold appliances , then I would personally buy the needed appliances my self and personally take them to the parents house. If the money was requested for house repairs or other services, I would personally arrange and pay for the work directly my self. If the request for money involved medical treatment , I would directly pay the money my self. In other words no cash would ever again be handed over to the parents , for obvious reasons. Over time the requests from the wife’s parents for money slowed down , over time Ive purchase various household appliances and equipment , and delivered those items to the parents house my self, along with personally paying for any medical treatment that the wife's parents needed . So I’m now wondering how others here who are married or in a relationship with a Thai woman deal with any requests for money that come from the Thai wife / partners parents or family , and do you have any tips or advice on how to deal with those requests for money . Tom .

I may be an old fuddy duddy and getting on in years ( 74 ) who could just be out of touch with the so called latest trends and social media goings on , so I’m now having a hard time trying to understand current social media sites like Instagram , TikTok and Twitter ( X ) . Thinking back I fondly remember social media being a nice way to keep up with friends and family but its now it seems to have turned into a distasteful rabbit hole and wasteland for idiotic content posted by halfwitted and mindless ‘’ look at me ‘’ attention seekers. And don’t get me started by the so called ‘’ influencers ‘’ who generally seem to possess the mentality of a 12 year old . And of course there’s the endless never ending flood of idiots posting in my mind stupid videos of them selves doing such crazy and idiotic stunts , which in many cases put the idiot in hospital or an early grave. In my simplistic view social media seems to have taken the concept of being stupid to the next level and now I have a strange gut feeling that It's definitely not going to get any better and almost certainly get worse . So whats your take on the current state of social media platforms like Instagram , TikTok and Twitter ( X ) has it become a saturated cesspool full of content posted by emotionally damaged pathological narcissistic attention seekers and clickbait scams and in the long term may be responsible for our downfall due to the spread of misinformation and not forgetting the increasing AI altered videos and photographs so that we never know what's real anymore. Or do you think the world is a better place with the likes of Instagram , TikTok and Twitter ( X ) being around. Tom .

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I need a new computer monitor and I came across a wide screen monitor ( can't remember where I saw it ) that you can have two independent different desktop views on its screen from two separate different computers at the same time . Also you only needed one mouse and one keyboard. I don't play games so I don't need any thing high spec. From what I remember the wide screen monitor I saw was not crazy expensive and had a screen size of ( I think ) 34 inches. Any one have a suggestion as to which monitor I saw or a recommendation – Thanks. .

Many Thanks , its appreciated Tom .