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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.

Your opinions are way off. They were not "making life harder for foreigners". If it was a Thai or Asian customer who punched/slapped the bouncer unprovoked, I'm sure he would have gotten his come uppance too.

Either way, the security guard struck the marine with a lot of force, enough to knock him out cold. The Brit in Pattaya slapped the Thai bouncer hard too, it was a full swing of the arm.

It's not the arguing with the Thais that resulted in the Brit getting a lesson. He took a swing at the head of a Thai. How is smacking someone in the head not "common knowledge"? Is that a "socially accepted norm" too, in Britain maybe? He broke the barrier of respect, decency, socially accepted norm (whatever you want to call it), and then expected to be treated by those norms?

Suggests that there is more to the story. As reported by that fine bastion of journalism, the daily mail: "The 37-year-old said: 'The bouncer became aggressive with me and I said 'do you want to fight me?'. He started fighting me. I came outside and he pushed me to the ground and my shoe came off. 'I stood up and my shoe came off. I stood up and said 'sorry, sorry' and I gave him 2,000 Baht. Everything was OK.'" Were father and son trying to walk off without paying their tab?

I would argue that brain-wise, that has happened already. Father sees son pick a fight, getting thrashed even while down. So what does father do? Picks a fight, and gets thrashed while down.

And both in the same weight class, right? The foreigner will be a lot less of a tough guy all of a sudden. It never amazes me how some people think 1 vs 1 is a fair fight, if one guy outweighs the other by 2x, and sometimes 3x.

Unfortunately not a sure thing that it's lesson learned for them. They are well into adulthood, they have almost certainly done stuff like this before, and they still haven't learned their lesson.

In my estimation, the chances that the Brits have learned their lesson, and will not do something stupid like this in the future, is only 50% at best. I really don't care as to what happened to them, and whether it was a reasonably response by the bouncers. Idiots like that don't deserve any kind of respect.

And that's the whole idea behind what some might consider to be an overreaction by the bouncers. By getting their behinds and heads kicked, the Brits MIGHT learn a lesson, and correct their behavior. Any lenient response, and they for sure will not learn a lesson. It's a public service the bouncers are doing.

If a heart attack really did kill Mr Mack, an autopsy would have shown so. Therefore there was no good reason for the accused to panic, and think that they would have been accused of murder. They need to hire a better lawyer, the current one doesn't come up with very good excuses.

Surely you mean frau. Fraulein is the diminutive form of frau.