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Just renewed my License - the Smart Queue app was always fully booked, so just turned up with the documents required and QR code from doing the video training. No dramas... BUT Top Tip: you can get (almost) a 6 year renewal, not just 5 You can let your license be up to one year past renewal and renw without any extra requirements, but loonger than that and you start having extra hoops to jump through... so keep it less than a year... in fact - it is BEST to renew it a few days after your renewal date (usually your birthday). As a useful quirk of the system, if you renew a day or two etc after the due date, you will get an extra year - the renewal will be to your NEXT birthday date + 5 years. So 6 years renewal (well, 5 years + 360 days or whatever, strictly speaking). (My next renewal is now October 2031, for example)

When you get the Easy Pass, also register for the m-flow - then you can pay/top up through the one easy pass card from your bank app.

To London:- EVA is direct and good. Finnair is also an option via a quiet and calm Helsinki, and around 120k bht return - in their new funky seat.

Here's hopefully some useful info. Do NOT buy an Android box - cheap and worse than that https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/popular-android-tv-boxes-sold-on-amazon-are-laced-with-malware/ and worse is usually they are running some version of android rather than Google TV - so interface will be rubbish for the usual type of tv remote (most of those Android boxes will require an 'air' remote to be usable...), on top of the underpowered chipsets used in them. Buy the "Chromecast with Google TV 4k" (you can check it also from Google itself) - easily avaliable Shopee etc for about 2000bht. this actually has the proper Google TV software. you can easily install a VPN app if needed, and i'd recommend Tivimate (or TVSmarters) for an IPTV app. For Tivimate best to go into Settings>General>User-Agent and set it to "VLC" just in case to prevent nay problems with your stream provider. ps Smarttube is also useful as an alternative to the usual youtube app for reason you'll quickly find out. pps an App called Button Mapper is good too - remap the Google remote Youtube button to SmartTube and remap the Netflix button to Tivimate, for example. ppps if you use an iPhone then install the Google home app, and you can connect that to the Chromecast box for data entry etc from your phone rather than faffing with the onscreen keyboard

It's not so much as needing an alternative to Kindle (Kobo is an option), but to take control & download your books - my advice is to use an app called Calibre. https://calibre-ebook.com/about You can check on MobileRead forums and elsewhere how excellent & trustworthy it is. Download your ebooks after purchase, and then you will have a copy of your book under your control.