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I'm not sure if I need the additional expense of buying two items. He's a part-time, casual gamer who hasn't professed any need for a PlayStation. Once he's graduated and off to work and earning, he can buy his own. The Acer Nitro 5 is a decent gamer AND school laptop. One of the guys I work with runs programs that are extremely heavy on number crunching and also requires high resolution graphic capability. He ended up buying an ASUS i7, 17" gamer laptop. He's not a gamer but fellow workers like rib him about the fancy styling of his 'I'm working, not gaming' laptop.

Then maybe the second part lke what VPN are you using? Where's their server in relation to 1) you and, 2) the host of whatever you are attempting to access? FWIW, my experience of connecting via VPN from anywhere to anywhere has been typically slower and not just here in Thailand. However, I have never tried any connections via TRUE be they VPN or direct.

So how does a telephone call to head office magic up a new account? Do they open it over the phone? You still need to go to a branch to do it, right? Do you tell them 'Your head office said you must open an account for me with "name same as passport and address in English"' and they just jump to it? The same folks that said 'cannot' previously? Your post is light on the mechanics of the process plus it doesn't have a date of when the last of your 3 account openings was so easily done. The banking rules and regulations have been tightened up over tha past few years.

Fruitloops (not the cereal either)

Suerely where no man has gone before, no?

So God was into recycling then? That'll get the green vote!

China claims sovereignity of the Gulf of Thailand. Even though Cambodia and vietnam block it if from being remotely near. Even China would struggle trying to justify that @Gold Star said "most waters". While we acknowledge your O-level in geography, try not to take his obvious tongue in cheek comment so seriously.

Agreed, 7 was decent while 8 was another 'Vista moment' best avoided, 10 is solid (now). I upgraded my office and lad's gaming PC's from 7 to 10 about two years ago, everyone happy, especially game boi. I subsequently upgraded my 12 year-old work laptop from 7 to 10 and was pleased that it also sorted out some intermittent hardware issues (bloody drivers!) that had plagued the machine after about 3 or 4 years of those infernal Windows updates. Since I built both PC's around 2011/12, I'm not going to waste time going to 11 but the lad's getting a new gaming laptop for his birthday this month which will come with 11. I replaced my old laptop with a new slim and svelte 11 machine last December. Really, really happy with it and the weight-saving over it's predecessor.

They do? Since you seem to know a lot about this, if the passenger van (from the same company) gets hit by another vehicle on the wrong side of the road, are all bets off?

Under specific circumstances VPN's can increase speeds for certain services. ISP's sometimes throttle, or artificially slow down specific types of of traffic; for example, several major ISP's have throttled streaming entertainment like Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.. In most instances a VPN will slow down your internet since it is fundamentally a rerouting rather than a short cut. However, the amount your speed is affected depends on the circumstances (see above). How fast your native internet was before applying a VPN, which brand VPN you are using and how far away you are from your VPN server can all play a part in your internet speed experience.

This generalization societal analysis is based on what? Research? Or simply an obsession with the 'bad news sells' English langauge media stories that attract clicks on internet forums? Plus a light dusting of xenophopbia.

Humans can be inhuman everywhere, smiling and otherwise. There. I've generalized for you.

The dangers inherent of a generation that's inceasingly getting too far up themselves.

That's all well and good but Vista preceded Win 7. Windows NT Lineage (32 & 64 bit) Windows 11 (2021) ... Windows 10 S (2017) ... Windows 10 (2015) - MS Version 6.4. ... Windows 8/8.1 (2012-2013) - MS Version 6.2/6.3. ... Windows 7 (2009) - MS Version 6.1. ... Windows Vista (2006) - MS Version 6.0. ... Windows XP (2001) - MS Version 5.1. ... Windows 2000 (2000) - MS Version 5.0.

A common self-deception.

Before Covid lock down, when my wife and I were doing a run to Savannakhet for my visa, the day permit office for locals was jammed as their systems were down. It took ages before we could get through the immigration queue and wait for the next bus. All in all, took about 5 hours to get across the border. Last month I did the visa run solo and I used a local driver. I was in the hotel in Savannakhet about 20 minutes after I parked my truck at Mukdahan.

Agreed. Stomping is typically only justified when being a total dickwad but maybe this guy was being a total dickwad.

No. Not all banks do this.

Hey! The farangs don't even need to be rich. Just nice but dim.

Nothing to suggest that the children were throwing water anywhere at the time. They were playing with water at the roadside beside a brightly lit rescue station. Nothing excessively dangerous there. Now, if we want to talk about exceeding safe speeds while driving...

No Nick, no they don't.

Yawn.. (Probably) more precisely, Daeng (possibly inebriated), on suddenly seeing what he thought was a police checkpoint, nailed the brakes and they failed to operate in the manner he was accustomed to (when sober).

Ooh no! Not the ignore list! @giddyup 1 v 0 @patman30

You could link it to your telex machine. But unplug the fax machine first.

There's only one thing worse than getting up on a gogo bar stage and shakin' yer drunken booty and that's admitting to doing it.