RedBackman

For 20b assume the preroll is real bottom of the barrel stuff, and they might dust off the trichomes to use elsewhere before rolling ... or be throwaway stock with bud rot and hydrogen peroxide used to try to clean it up. I skip prerolls in general but the higher price ones in a reputable shop can be okay but I'd never blindly trust a 20b one.

If it's a plain-old-telephone-system landline it can't receive true text. Some providers (not sure about thailand) support a text-to-voice service where it will call you and read out text messages. You could add third party compatibility, especially if you're not attached to your number. Incoming text -> voip that supports text -> call-to-text to your landline or check it on the internet etc. Fixed service voip is usually also considered as a landline because it's still tied to fixed physical location traveling via wires to the customer, but the signaling is digital and more modern. You'd sign up for this likely through your internet provider. Still works with emergency services for location, seems less scammy, might be able to receive actual texts or text-to-voice depending on your provider. Non-fixed voip are like google voice, skype, many other services. It can receive texts if you check on compatible devices/apps, You could setup a non-fixed voip number on a "home phone" like device and use it like a landline. It's not tied to a location so it might not work with emergency service. Scammers love to use it so plenty of financial services don't accept it for authentication anyway. If you're planning to use sms authentication really cell mobile numbers are the only surefire way because plenty of services will refuse to send to anything non-mobile.

It depends how you're trying to pay, some options are legitimately locked behind sms confirmation or mobile app. If OP just wants sms they should just get a bargain bin 4g/5g phone and probably the cheapest prepaid plans will work. I'd still recommend going with a cheap modern smart phone though just in case you need any apps later. You can find 5g Android 10+ models for under 1500 baht even.

The problem with this is landlines and fixed service VOIP numbers aren't portable in Thailand to my understanding. So if you do want a VoIP service that supports text as a go between you'd have to at least change the number you give out before forwarding to the landline...And then some services still won't support VoIP for 2fa anyway. So for a non-business user the advice is pretty much "get a cheap cellphone".

Yes, just look up submarine cables. Most of the world, including Samoa, primarily depends on these to reach any portion of the internet that's overseas. The other viable way for internet to cross the ocean is through satellite connections. As far as a government shutting down internet for its citizens, that's also very possible. A Georgian woman accidentally cut an underground cable in 2011 and shut off internet for all of Armenia. Iran shut down internet for their country for a week in 2019. China's great firewall regularly restricts access to a ton of different sites and services...our current internet is pretty centralized so government censorship and control is a real threat pretty much everywhere.

People already asked...and in this case the confusion is understandable because there's really no reason to demand an optical disc. At least with some games, movies, media there are some legit reasons to buy physical discs like legal backups and sharing...but Kaspersky is a digital subscription service regardless of installation method and needs frequent updates to stay effective. Literally no benefit compared to shoving it on a flash drive if you need it to be physical.

Generally speaking there isn't an easy way for home users to receive SMS on a landline.

Depends on your system but I'm guessing you'd want to go to the binaries and pick the windows amd64 version. Again I haven't tried it myself or looked into it, it's just a github repo I saw that might help. I'd still recommend just buying a cheap VPN service.

The obvious easy answer is to pay for a relatively cheap vpn service that runs on your whole computer instead of just the browser. There are also free proxies out there that might help but a lot of them are shady. I see a github repo about using opera itself as a background proxy service that might help you: https://github.com/Snawoot/opera-proxy I haven't tried it myself or looked into it deeply though.

Usually if the Thailand government is blocking a site you'll either directly get a page like this, or possibly a browser warning about untrusted connections that if you click through to go anyway will lead to the same. If you're on a network that you don't control the sysadmin might try blocking access to some sites in different ways OR more likely it's a problem from the websites end. They could be trying to block connections from certain countries, vpns, etc. They might just be having errors or downtime. They might be getting shutdown for legal reasons if it's a sketchy site. etc. Using different vpns and clearing cookies/data is pretty much all you can do to resolve it from your end if that's even possible.

Can you look at event viewer and see of the error messages shed any light? I'd guess it's a driver issue. Roll back and if that doesn't help make sure to try a few different versions both from Intel and your manufacturer if they offer it.

I'm not super familiar with WHS drive extender tbh, I just remember it had mirroring and parity options that had data redundancy. I think it should all be on the other drives in hidden folders if you set it up that way, but not sure what the easiest way to reassemble it would be. When they were actually part of a server storage pool I think it would just repair itself when you marked a drive dead if you had enough room or you replaced the drive.

Yeah if it doesn't show up at all in disk management that's a pretty bad sign, especially if it's the same model/configuration as all the other drives you tested. If you're only worried about the data I think technically drive extender had a 'duplication' data redundancy feature so you might be able to use the other drives to recover the broken one.

All part of the troubleshooting. It's helpful built-in GUI to see if your HDD is at least recognized correctly and you can try to force it to mount from there. You could also use mountvol in cmd to do approximately the same thing and chkdsk to try to fix corruption/logical errors.

Sata drives are hot plug capable, so you can... As far as the drive that powers but windows doesn't see, what steps have you tried to mount it? diskmgmt.msc? There are a lot of reasons a hdd might not mount. It might just be a simple windows bug or corrupted tables ...or it could be dead even if it spins and is recognized depending on what broke. Contrary to what some others have said consumer hdds and ssds aren't designed around long-tem cold storage and both data and mechanical components can degrade even if they aren't in use. The environmental factors they are exposed to during their time in storage will make a huge difference as well.