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Depends on if they airline staff even bother to check. If they do, and your bag is oversize, they'll force you to check it in.

A lot of airlines allow you carry on 2 pieces of luggage onto the cabin: 1 piece that fits into the overhead bin + 1 personal item (which can be a laptop bag, as long as it is small enough to be stored underneath the seat). See if this works for you. Check with Thai airways to see what their cabin allowance is for your ticket.

Don't know if you are doing this already. You can take Cetirizine to relieve much of the itch. Cetirizine is an anti-histamine commonly taken for allergies. It's an over the counter drug, no prescription needed.

Putting bedding in sealed bag for 2-3 days will almost certainly kill the mites, but not 100%. One scenario is if you have some tiny bits of skin on the bedding where the mites are. Which will provide food for the mites. I had scabies about 10 years ago. Got rid of it with permethrin treatments (repeated a few times). If you have to go through the treatment, and the itch of the scabies themselves, you want to eliminate reinfection as much as possible.

A more foolproof way to get rid of scabies on clothing and bedding is to freeze them. Bag it up, put it in the freezer, leave it there for 3 full days, and they will be dead for sure.

Yes, not answering calls from unknown numbers isn't the answer for me either. It could be a genuine call. Just remember that you cannot be scammed by simply answering a call. It's only if your are dumb enough to give out banking (or other personal) information, that's when the scams happen.

A few times I got the following call: Caller claims they are the rcmp. They have seized a rental car that was used to transport drugs from Canada to San Antonio. The US police found the car abandoned in San Antonio, and traced it to me. Allegedly because the car was a rental, and it was my credit card used to rent the car. Caller says it's probably not me who rented the car, but it doesn't matter because it's my credit card used to rent it, so as far as the police is concerned, they are looking for me. Caller says he has an arrest warrant with my name on it, and unless I take care of it, I will get arrested at the next opportunity. And to take care of it... you guessed it!... he needs my bank information. So I asked him whose name is on the arrest warrant. He couldn't answer obviously, just kept repeating that he has an arrest warrant. And I kept asking him whose name is on it. Eventually he hung up.

Depends on how widely your phone number is known. I have a virtual Canadian phone number. The only ones I have shared that number with are some banks, a lawyer or 2, a few family members, 1 agent, and 1 management company. I have received scam calls on that number. Me asking the caller who they are looking for have always stopped them dead in their tracks. The only callers that know my name are callers from my banks trying to sell me a product, but those are spam (rather than scam) callers.

Number 1 question to ask the caller is who they are looking for. If they don't know your name, it's just a random scam call.

The one on the left (in the green pants) is a harem onto herself.

If you click "OK" on that popup window the torrent should be added and the download starts. I'm not sure what's the problem?

The samsung J7 pro had it last security update in the first quarter of 2021. It hasn't had any updates since. Hope you are not doing anything secure on it, like banking, or reading your email.

Go to sanook.com, they have a video there of the woman in the photo trying to pry the shoe loose. It clearly shows the bottom of the shoe is stuck, and not the laces. Score one for the witness! https://www.sanook.com/news/9020310/

"She said she was just behind the tourist and she first thought it was a shoelace that had got caught at the end of the moving walkway but later saw that it was the sole of the shoe that had jammed there." Man! So many comments about a shoelace getting stuck, despite the article clearly stating that it was not.

The monitor listed in that specs Pic is a MSI g24c4. On lazada a new one sells for right around 4k.

And how will we tell the difference?

Ah nvm, I misread the article. She was flying into Thailand.

She was trying to exit Thailand under someone else's pp, which means she was afraid to use her own. My guess is that she is wanted (or she herself suspects she is wanted) for some kind of crime in Thailand. It wouldn't have anything to do with her being wanted in China. If that's the case, she would exit Thailand with her real pp, and enter China with the illegal one.

Yes, the issue with lazada isn't so much the platform itself. It's the individual sellers. There are scammers on lazada. For a high value item, I would only buy from a well known, well established, well reviewed Lazmall shop.

This bring back memories. I had a iphone 3G waaaaaay back. Bought it used for around 100 usd. It was a good phone, but cannot imagine using it for 8 (!) years. I moved onto a Samsung Note 2 a couple years later, because I needed to keep 2 sims active, and that phone was one of the few higher end phones that did that then. Paid a whopping 930 usd for it, kept it for 5 years, until I sat on it and the screen bent and cracked.

The grapheneOS website says about the pixel 4a (non 5G version) : The following devices are end-of-life, no longer receive full security updates and are supported via extended support releases of GrapheneOS: Pixel 4a (sunfish) Pixel 4 XL (coral) Pixel 4 (flame) We provide extended support releases as a stopgap for users to transition to the far more secure current generation devices. That really doesn't sound like you can squeeze another 1-2 years out if it. Low to mid range Android phones used to get only 3 years of software support and security updates. That is starting to change now for mid range phones, many are getting 4 years now. The high end, flagship phones get a lot more. As to whether it's "bad", it depends on how you look at it. My current phone is a xiaomi 11 lite 5g ne. It was released in August 2021, I bought it in May 2022. Last security update slated for Aug 2025. So I can probably safely use in until around Feb 2026. That's 3 years and 9 months. I'm not sure I will even keep it that long. I got my for 8700 baht (on a sale) = 250 usd. My strategy is to buy a mid range phone for around 250 usd, and use it for around 2.5 years. Which works out to 100 usd per year. If you buy a new iPhone, it will be around 1000 usd, and you'll need to use it for 10 years to get the same 100 usd per year rate. Then there is the possibilities of you losing the phone, it getting stolen, dropping it and cracking the screen, battery degrading after some years. Which will hurt a lot more for an expensive phone. My phone has a snapdragon 778G chip, 8 gb memory, 256 gb storage. While a new iPhone is theoretically superior in performance, I don't feel like I'm missing out at all. And once an iPhone hits the 3 year mark, you'll feel that you are missing out on new features that the phone industry has come up with in the that time.

Software support (updated versions of Android) and security updates for the Pixel 4a ended on Aug 19, 2023. So I wouldn't buy the pixel 4a at all. https://endoflife.date/pixel Last column = guaranteed security update Second last column = active support

I suspect his solution will be to restore his life to one of luxury. And I suspect he will get it done too.

I have seen it happen to a friend in the Philippines. He was past immigration, customs officer went through his bags in a way he didn't like, so he mouthed off. Now, he is American, and a mouthy one even by American standards. Customs guy calls over immigration. Immigration denies him entry into the country, he had to wait in a holding area until the next flight out. They blacklisted him too for good measure.

No, they don't need a criminal conviction. Entering a country is a right, not a privilege. They can simply not grant you that privilege, and you can't complain about your rights.