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On Phitsanulok Road is the National Anti-Corruption Museum. But it closed down and its website is not functioning. Pity, I always wondered what exhibits they might have. It also occurs to me to wonder what depths of depravity Anutin might be accused of in order to “impact the nation's governance reputation both at home and abroad.” I don't think the airstrip across allegedly appropriated state land (previouslly widely reported in Thai media) is in the right league; he must have done something seriously unpleasant to worsen the world's view of Thailand's political probity.

I have a S10FE tablet and it's lovely, except I never see it because the wife likes it too. Untilt the mess with the S21 screen, I had the habit of buying the FE models which seem to offer better value. Incidentally, I pair it with a Targus AK855 b/t keyboard which is sensational for someone like me who types a lot for a living.

My Samsung tablet was made in China. So?

that kind of proves my point. Does the general public really crave those extras? 5G is proving a real lemon in most markets - 6G? The others I have never even heard of. Re batteries, I notice from a whizz round a shopping centre today that tablets seem to be making a comeback, notably the 7 or 8 inch variety that had disappeared. I wonder if that is not a coincidence.

..... and they have largely run out of such features - eg folding phones, 5g, etc. The novelty has worn off. Which is why they are all punting "AI" as a saviour for mankind, instead of just a dodgy privacy-busting gimmick. Working a treat for the sheeple at present, but they will soon enough realise their mistake. I would like a fully flexible phone that bounces, withstands a drop, and doesn't mind getting (accidentally) thrown in a washing machine. I'd buy that..........

Yes but. High-end headphones perform better (ie the audio quality is superior) on wire than wireless. I can tell the difference on my own expensive cans.

Interesting. That's a big heavy lump, but I agree that an external sd card is far preferable to everything stuck on board. (Lack of a headphone socket is easily overcome with a USB cable, but why should we have to find one?). Did you find the "ColorOS" workable?

so you would be paying google to do their development work for them. Hmmm. I want nothing to do with AI, I have my own I and it's not A. The mere fact you can't delete/dsable the thing says all I need to know.

Oh don't worry - I am setting my wife on them today! I'll also check with BigC where it was bought, and Bangkok Bank (no, seriously) whose card I used.

I trawled the net after it happened to my phone in Feb,found huge volumes of (mainly) nonsense from India, where it seems to have been biggest. There are endless "how to fix" youtubes, usually starting with "restart your phone" (duh!) and ending with "factory reset". NONE of them works, it's a hardware issue and if your screen is one of the duff ones, you're screwed - until Samsung recently relented under very commendable pressure from the Consumers Association/s here. I have never updated a phone since 1993 when I started with them - until this time when I gave in and as a last resort put in Android 14, which b%ggered half my apps, screwed with my homescreens and generally proved I had been right for 30 years. But it did NOT fix the screen.

Just seen this - many thanks for posting. Now, for the real Gold Star, all you need to do is tell me how to take advantage of the offer without the proof-of-purchase I binned on returning from the oh-so-unhelpful service centre a few days after the warranty had run out! (Who in hell keeps receipts for more than 2 years?) If they let me, I would replace the screen - it was absolutely superb until it went wonky.

This thread contains the suggestion that the 'green lines' are caused by an Android update. It is not necessarily so. I had the green lines (which gradually multiply till the thing is useless to view) and had never updated the phone, or dropped it or any other misuse. It's a duff product and common to that type of screen (?something amoled) across many models.

Get out of Samsung! I was brand-loyal for many years too. I have an S21. It has the green lines (since about 2 days after warranty finished, incidentally) and they just keep spreading. "Customer service" in BKK just actually laughed when I showed them, and agreed there isn't a replacement screen this side of Finland but it would cost B7000 if there were. NB a factory reset does nothing for the screen lines. That screen is history. As someone above said, time to move on. Samsung product and service have both turned to brown stuff. Plus, Android 14, whch I was stuck with after the reset, is CRAP. Screwed half of my apps, moved my settings around and is generally a heap of poo. My next phone will be used (from a relatively trusted local source), android 13 latest and almost inevitably Chinese. But I will NEVER go Samsung agan.

why? It's fine as it is.

and that's their fault?

well there's not a lot wrong with Octopus in HKG, Opal in SYD or any of a million other city transport payment systems. But given that about 7 corporations own the railways here, they want to compete with each other which rules out 'co-operation' and divvying up the total take. Pathetic.

past tense. Was burned down about 3 years ago.

My wife informed me this morning that registration is open for Thai citizens to register their BTS cards (Rabbit) in order to qualify for the promised start of B20 maximum fares in the next month or two. I marvel not so much at the possible xenophobia (to be gleefully pounced on by the AN crowd), but at the sheer pointlessness of trying to restrict access to the fares. This, rather than any perception of anti-farang sentiment, is what sometimes gets to me about living in TH. Clearly it is completely impossible to stop non-Thais from obtaining/borrowing/using a registered card. But that does not seem to occur to the recta who dream up this scheme. My own card is not in my name anyway. I can pick up my wife's card. Our son doesn't live locally; I can use his. Etc etc. But then there is the implementation of the restriction. I'm told it's strictly one card per Thai (per ID card, one assumes); that will involve record-keeping and surveillance of its own. To police that, will there be inspectors in the system, checking IDs in transit? I can't see that. Again,etc, etc. So the restrictions are unenforceable but will cost money to implement. It will never have occurred to the said recta who run these things that it would probably be actually cheaper to just let it go, let everyone travel at that reduced fare (which in itself is a very good idea) rather than to add a layer of fatuous bureaucracy (and attendant brown envelopes, of course). Any cost saving to be weighed against the ill-feeling, bad publicity etc to be garnered by authorities that sometimes really seem to seek out trouble and opprobrium for themselves. I'm not generally a Thai-basher but this one has me wanting to become one.

Me too, I usually boil up a litre at a time and keep in fridge. I add a good quantity of turmeric - root, chopped roughly with the ginger. I often add fresh lime juice, but that's not to everyone's taste. Cost negligible. Have done so for donkeys' years. Does it do any good? I don't get sick, but is that because of the potion? Who knows. I also love cooking with ginger. Briiliant stuff and so , so easily available here.

Thanks for reply, sorry if I failed to make it clear: I want a tablet to act as a stand-in screen for my stricken phone. I very much do NOT want TV or video. I want to use the phone (as per normal) while out and about, only using the tablet to see what is on the phone. HDMI etc just can't be relevant here. Phone: S21 (victim of the dreaded vertical lines and now impossible to read stuff) tablet: A7 in case that helps.

I have a Samsung (android 14) with a badly damaged screen for which the lovely manufacturer has no replacements. It is so bad it is effectively useless. Can anyone advise whether it is possible to connect it to another Android - eg my Samsung tablet - so that I can display the contents of the phone on the tablet while using the phone? To make calls, Whatsapp, facebook, etc, not watch videos. Thought this might be a simple question, but net searches keep telling me I should 'mirror' with HDMIs and casting software. I think it should be simpler than that but what I know about this you can write on a pinhead with a pneumatic drill. What I have in mind is more like a visual version of a mobile hotspot. It's not as simple as joining the two devices via USB cable, is it?

Northrop, Saab, Boeing, BAe, Rostekh, knicker-rustlers, etc, etc…….

It's about mines and (in my comment) about mine clearance. To make it really simple for you, I suggested that certain English nobs (I am euphemising to stop AN getting prosecuted,khao chai mai?) could usefully take an interest in this part of the world too. Still not au fait? See: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crenllxwj8wo geez, mate.

True what it says, but what it means is not "restricted" (ie limited access) but "closed".

Irrelevant? Tell that to the soldier who trod on the mine. The only real casualty of this nonsense. Clearly no need to instruct you about illogical, etc.