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  1. On 4/30/2024 at 10:20 AM, Furioso said:

    Good tips, thanks. I'm going to take a 6 month trip to several countries out of Thailand next year. Ideally I'd like a laptop but to me they are the biggest risk, so many of them break down at the wrong time. So, right now I've got the Honor 9 tablet, that can definitely work for my 6 month trip without too much to worry about.

     

    I've had a Chromebook before, it worked ok when my previous laptop busted but won't buy another one.

     

    As far as my home PC, I've got a HP Mini I bought used off of Lazada but I want to replace it with a new mini unless someone can give me good reasons to buy a new desktop. 

     

    I've got one quick question. I'm on Win 10 and I really like it. Is Win 11 as good? I have seen a YT video on how to optimize the hell out of Win 11 so I think as long as I do that I won't miss Win 10. 

    I can't help you there.  I"m a mac user.  These were tips from my friend for me to help shop/purchase an inexpensive laptop for her to buy as her first computer.

  2. I just asked my laptop tech-geek friend who lives in UK the question of "Which is a good quality inexpensive laptop right now?"

    Here's his answers:

    I think Huawei are good value for money. They often have discounts on their website.

    2.  I (him) plan to get a Xiaomi Mi pad 6 tablet and a Logitech Anywhere keyboard. As a lightweight solution to take out and about, leave the laptop at home.

    3. Really inexpensive:  Chromebook or INSTALL chromebook in a used other brand laptop:
     

    Ah, ok. So, the good thing about a Chromebook is how resource light it is. You can install it on an old windows computer and it would run great.

    So where the computer with windows on it may be fit for the bucket, you can install Chrome and give it a new lease of life.

    That would be the cheapest solution.

     

    You can pick up many Chromebooks for just a few hundred too.

    https://chromeos.google/products/chromeos-flex/

    4. I told him don't want to go that route of having to install something for the girl so his ultimate suggestion was can't go wrong right now with a Huawei.

    or if you want it super portable go with #2 (but means you probably have something else at home you can use too).

  3. On 2/1/2024 at 11:46 AM, QuantumQuandry said:

     

    I think I may have erroneously lumped it in with the other open air gyms that were being suggested but looking it up now, I see that it's not.  Thank you very much for bringing it back to my attention, I will check that one out, as well.  👍

    My pleasure to help.

    Never see people in it during day.  It's ghost town like.  Maybe aft 4 it gets people and maybe very early before work.

  4. On 1/27/2024 at 3:22 PM, QuantumQuandry said:

    First off, thank you for all the replies!  Some clarifications:

      

     

    She gets cardio exercise.  She does 30-60 minutes at home most nights and I take her out on beach walks a few times a week.  I think that resistance training has additional benefits, though:

    1. For depression/anxiety, resistance training has showed a profound effect.

    2. Getting out of the house has benefits.

    3. Having a routine she can do with a friend.

     

     

     

    She is anxious about people looking at her.  Any outdoor areas is going to be worse than just going to an indoor gym, I think.  She doesn't even want ME looking at her when she does cardio at home.  Says it 'makes her weak'.

     

     

    Yes, a ladies gym, if not too busy, would probably be ok.  And that location would be great, too!  Any idea what it's called?  I haven't seen one like that but that would be spot on.  She does YouTube cardio, already, and I take her out on long walks.

     

     

    That's what I am trying to do! 🙂 She's Filipina.  She's pretty fit (and knows how to weight train, as well, if we find an appropriate gym).  Don't want to derail my own thread but let's just say, it's definitely psychological and we are trying to address it, both with meds and behavioral changes (like finding a gym she can handle).

     

    I will probably give up my nice apartment in 6 months, when my lease ends, if I have to, just to get her a condo gym.  Would be better if we can find something before then.  But it is what it is.

     

    Thanks again for the assistance.

     

    did you miss my post about Human Strong on Soi 4 Pratamnuk?  I think it could work for her.

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  5. Certain times of day Human Strong on Soi 4 In Pratamnuk is always empty.  Many times very little people.

    I think it does get busy after work hours.  Maybe early morning too?  idk.  But it always seems sparse.

    It's big.  and in shade, but no AC.  

    Worth her visiting once.

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  6. 4 hours ago, Iron Tongue said:

    Pit bulls are actually very sociable and friendly dogs, as they have been popular family pets for over a century in the West.

    It is only through continued abuse by certain low-life owners who turn them into aggressive and fighting animals that pits have become the "terror" that people assume them to be.

    I think your bullets would be misplaced for use on the dogs.

    great lovable dogs.  Yeah, they can be made into war machines, but that 's not how they come out of the box.

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