DaveBKK

18 minutes ago, Paradice lost said:

 Thanks very much for your suggestion regarding using bitcoin.  My big problem with that is that I receive several junk mail a day telling me to deal in bitcoin but, obviously, most or all of this junk mail is from scammer and I stay well clear.  My problem with following your advice is that I know virtually nothing about how to buy and sell bitcoin and even your mention of Kraken, Bitstamp and SEPA are foreign language to me.  I'm aware that bitcoin can be a very volatile investment and I have no idea of the costs and pitfalls. Is there any chance that you can you point me in any direction where to get a crash course and knowledge on this trade without spending my few remaining day or years in doing it. 

Yeah there are scams out there for investing and getting rich quick with Bitcoin, but that’s not what you’re doing. You’re using it for its original purpose... intercountry trustless transfers. You won’t be actually holding bitcoin for much more than minutes or hours at the longest. You won’t even have to manage the bitcoin as all you’ll be doing is transferring it between exchanges (or if you decide the Localbitcoin route, keeping it on Localbitcoins and just receiving from 1 person and sending to another on site). 
 

Some starter guides from the sites I mentioned:
 

https://www.kraken.com/#route-beginner

https://localbitcoins.com/guides/

Just saying again Bitcoin. You can have your cash in hand in the U.K. or wherever in about an hour. So easy to buy bitcoin now in TH.... so easy to sell in Europe or U.S.  

2 easy methods:

- Signup on Bitkub to buy with Thai baht. Easy bank transfer

- Signup through a myriad of Exchanges in Europe to sell,... Kraken, Bitstamp, etc. Then a fast SEPA or whatever you Europeans use bank transfer to home bank acct.

or Do it all through peer to peer exchange on Localbitcoins. Only transfer with people will solid reputation scores. 

This is the perfect case for Bitcoin. Signup at Localbitcoins.com or Bitkub.com and buy bitcoin via easy Thai bank transfer.

Sell bitcoins in your country via Localbitcoins and get cash via transfer or sign up for some exchange and sell. Voila. 
 

Once signed up and verified on L.B.C. you could literally do both trades and have cash in hand within an hour or so. 
 

30 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

There is nothing on the map that shows any greater capacity or bandwidth available exclusively to internet to/from a mobile phone. It shows the opposite, all ISP's connect to the dozen gateways and then off to the broader international internet. So far as the map is concerned cellular providers are just another ISP, nothing to say they route their traffic any differently or have a greater international bandwidth.

 

The only difference is the last couple of kilometres which is done wirelesly, slower and more expensive than a cable.

 

No matter how much bandwidth an ISP rents/allocates, the data cannot travel faster than the handset to tower speed, and for most that is under 10mbps.

 

 

10 mbps to the handset but broadband to Los Angeles will probably be only allocated 1-3 mbps. Maybe they get 50 mbps to the local CO,  doesn’t mean they get that out of TH. 
 

Indisputable verifiable FACT: I regularly get more bandwidth internationally on DTAC 4G than my broadband provider. Part of that has to do with tons of customers abandoning DTAC thus providing much better contention ratios.  DuckDuckGo it dude: contention ratios.  

26 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

There is nothing on the map that shows any greater capacity or bandwidth available exclusively to internet to/from a mobile phone. It shows the opposite, all ISP's connect to the dozen gateways and then off to the broader international internet. So far as the map is concerned cellular providers are just another ISP, nothing to say they route their traffic any differently or have a greater international bandwidth.

 

The only difference is the last couple of kilometres which is done wirelesly, slower and more expensive than a cable.

 

No matter how much bandwidth an ISP rents/allocates, the data cannot travel faster than the handset to tower speed, and for most that is under 10mbps.

 

 

Dude... look at the map. DTAC has its own gateway and it’s own routes.  AIS has its own gateway (AWN) and its own routes. TRUE has its own gateway and it’s own routes. 
 

Each route has different costs. Lower cost users are put on lower cost more congested routes.  It’s not all equal. Look up the difference between TCP and UDP. 
 

Look up contention ratios for broadband.  

2 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

They are all sharing the same internet backbone, Once you get to the cell tower, its the same internet, the cellular base station plugs into the same internet infrastructure. The cable from bangkok to chaing mai would have the same shared traffic on it. There are only a couple of cables that leave thailand and all the internet traffic is on those cables. There is no seperate connections for cellular traffic

The Thai average real world speed for 4G internet is 10Mbps, a cabled in connection is 50-100 Mbps. That is faster and unlimited data.

 

Really bad and false information here. There are about a dozen international gateways in TH with over 40 different routes to various providers.  See the map here:

http://internet.nectec.or.th/webstats/show_page.php?nnHZtXzjeMp7AKW6g7hcmSa1mN5C39T8bDBolE1jU6CqoiAiI7e4KkWcrmoFJup+bWMSjuJXDz2aRJQzY1oXzw==
 

A physical cable isn’t as important as how much bandwidth is rented/purchased on that physical cable.

On 2/15/2020 at 6:07 AM, Peterw42 said:

Internet via a sim card will always be slower or less data than a cabled in service. If your internet cuts off 10 times a day, that is a fault, 

Get your existing service repaired.

This is false. Especially in the case of international access. Thai ISPs often route “home” users over the cheapest and most congested routes available and allow huge contention issues (putting 100 users on same line). I often get much better *real world* performance via mobile than broadband. 

Veracrypt is best used for creating an encrypted container to put files on your HD or flash drive or such.

For encrypting on cloud storage such as Google Drive or M$ OneDrive, use Cryptomator. This encrypts file by file and better manageable for cloud storage.  

6 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Saw one yesterday.  It's got a plastic watchband, 555.

 

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Actually it has a huge range of wristbands that can be chosen from. 

Trolly troll. Never understand these people who come to the Apple forum to bash Apple and troll Apple customers.

But then again.... if you look at this guys profile above, you'll see ALL his posts are literal sarcastic complaining trolly trolls.  Must be a very happy life ???? 

Cambodia banning = just a reason to ask for higher under the table “fees” from “enforcement” officials.  ???? 

16 hours ago, oldhippy said:

How does a ban on ONLINE gambling make thousands of jobs disappear?

How it typically works with the Chinese online casinos: they have a live dealer (typically attractive female) on video feed.  It’s quite something to see behind the scenes....literally a warehouse sized room with just rows and rows of dealers on camera. 

On 12/8/2019 at 9:40 AM, bearpolar said:

it definitely isnt.

 

I tried switching to it but i couldnt find anything when i googled for stuff. Had to go back to google.

 

It's so crappy that when i search "reddit: my question" Which usually has answers to any of my life problems on google, it didnt even link me to reddit itself on the first page most of the time.

It usually would link me to buzzfeed or <deleted>ty things that talk about reddit.

 

 

You were basically using it wrong.  If you wanted to search Reddit on DDG you use !r after the query... not reddit: 

And yet it’s this thread that shows up in the newsletter instead of the one in the business forum. Cool. 

On 9/29/2019 at 8:43 AM, Bob12345 said:

How about giving them a book?

Yep have that too. Apple Books. 

On 9/27/2019 at 8:57 PM, sumrit said:

My daughter, who has APPLE, ANDROID and WINDOWS devices tells me you can only have your LINE account on one APPLE device because all APPLE devices operate using the same SIRI system.

 

She also tells me you can have the same LINE account on one APPLE device PLUS one windows device OR one APPLE device PLUS one ANDROID device. 

Your daughter is mistaken. I have an iPad and iPhone and have the same exact Line acct on both. I also have it on my Mac. Same account, same contacts, same conversations all sync’d together. 

If you keep passport / visa images on your phone to show to police if potentially stopped.... keep in mind you’ll be handing over your unlocked and unencrypted phone willingly to the police.  

Just something to keep in mind depending on what else is kept on your phone. 

Ok a few advantages to having and AppleTV not mentioned above (and not necessarily for everyone but these are benefits I quite enjoy)

1. Gaming - you have a huge library of iOS games you can play, and if you have a compatible controller many are just as enjoyable as PlayStation or Xbox at a fraction of the cost. Great games for kids too! The next version of iOS coming probably in September will include PlayStation and Xbox controller support.

2. Music and Hey Siri support - My iPhone is usually lying around nearby. I have it set-up so that if I say “Hey Siri play XXX in the living room) it’s start playing whatever song I’ve said on the AppleTV automatically (which is hooked up to my sound system). I can have it play by genre, playlist, artist, album...whatever.

3. In addition to Netflix and iTunes there are some other notable apps with B and C content that you can access with a VPN:

- Crackle (Sony shows and movies and some originals)

- Popcornflix

- Tubi (actually has some content without a VPN but VPN to USA content is better)

- Stirr 

Also I just believe it has a much better interface than some of the crappy TV interfaces out there.

Relax Richard. Everyone has their thing. Some people get orgasmic about a bunch of men kicking around a ball on a field.  They love taking about who’s team is better and this and that. As if they have anything to do with it. Not my thing but I certainly don’t begrudge anyone who is into soccer. Some people are into cars. Some into movies and actors.  

Who are YOU to call what anyone else is interested in silly? If it’s not your thing.... walk away. Don’t participate. 

1 out of 5? That’s great! Consider what is Mercedes or BMW market share in TH.... and yet you certainly see them often (in Bangkok at least).