RedBackman

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.

If it's only 6 months old you should hopefully have a warranty to get it replaced. If not it could be a lot of things. Power supply, tcon, main board, failing connections. Most often with solid color (black) vertical lines and no obvious impact it's where the display ribbons enter into the actual display. So a first step if it's out of warranty is to take it apart, dust everything and look for obvious damage, then turn it on and see if the lines go away while you apply light pressure to the display ribbon connections with a plastic tool.

Which 123movies domain? With one of your speedtests above we can see your network is capable of receiving the full 10/10 connection you pay for which is more than enough for 1080p and lower quality. So either a. At times your network slows down due to congestion. b. The problem is on 123movies end, they just don't have enough server capacity. Next time you are buffering do a speed test, if you're still at 10/10 to international speed test servers then it's option b. If you're at < 5 download then it might be option a.

Not sure what you mean by safer speeds. Higher speeds are nice but private trackers and usenet groups biggest advantages are more in the realm of higher quality (4k) or older/obscure content. If you only care about up to 1080p and mostly newer or popular older stuff it's sort of over kill with the hassles of getting an invite and worrying about maintaining ratios or paying fees. Also if you just automate torrents you probably won't even notice speed differences on the backend unless you're really trying to watch something minutes after the premier or on a spontaneous a la carte whim. Pretty much you'll know if you need a private tracker if you're not getting the content you want in reasonable times or at all. If everything is working though why bother...

I use Radarr and Sonarr and plex but there are plenty of other services with varying levels of complexity like duckietv/sickchill/medusa for fetching torrents and emby or jellyfin as a server backend. Basically the programs grab things automatically. You can have them fetch new movies or all the shows you watch as soon as they come out and then sort them into folders for your media server to play. There's a lot of stuff in the *arr family that just integrates really well too. Like for instance they have a discord chat bot requestrr you can set up so if your family wants something they can just type it in the discord chat and the server will handle it from there. Or there's tdarr if you want to transcode everything you download to your favorite format. etc

Eh, plenty of sites like that. A lot of people use kodi addons to scrape link-aggregate sites without much hassle. Personally I just have all my torrents automated and added right to my plex server. 1080p quality, almost never down, fast signal that doesn't buffer, saves my spot if I get interrupted or switch tvs, even works locally if the network goes down. It's nice to have everything in one place too but I still go to the native apps on my two streaming services (netflix, disney+) just for 4k content.

Java is not the same as JavaScript. You don't need to install JavaScript because modern browsers come with a built-in JavaScript engine. If you really have disabled JavaScript completely on your browser that could be the reason for abnormal behavior from a ton of websites. One of the troubleshooting steps you should take is enabling JavaScript on this site and seeing if the problem persists.

Chill out a bit, I'm not attacking you, I'm just trying to help troubleshoot your issue. I wasn't talking just about load times either, I'm talking about the whole function of the site. There's a spike on load for cpu and memory but after load as decompression and the javascript calls finish cpu goes to nominal and memory hangs around ~85MB per page...you might want to check about:processes on firefox to see if you're getting different results to see if there's a client-side problem but I'm done helping further at this point. Good luck.

Hmm I'm not experiencing the same. Takes 5s to load for me, cpu use goes to nominal after that initial stage and it takes ~85MB in memory. None of that is particularly bad for a modern responsive site. Which browser are you using?

I would guess your house is just too remote so too far from the rest of the fibre grid to be worth it to AIS. It would probably be better to get fibre from a different provider if they offer it before going to mobile network options. As for what router you'd need that somewhat depends on your network requirements. Like how fast of a mobile plan are you using, how big is your house, how many devices, etc. I tend to go through advice just because they have good prices and good warranty support compared to 3rd party sellers on lazada/shopee/Facebook marketplace. Jib, BananaIT, and invade all provide the same sort of thing but a bit worse on average imo. https://www.advice.co.th/product/4g-router-mifi-aircard

On your browser you could use ublock origin and most of the ads go away. If you're still having problems you could get a network-wide ad blocker like adguard home, pihole, pfblockerng, etc. Or you could just switch your dns server to adguard's ( ipv4 94.140.14.14, 94.140.15.15 and ipv6 2a10:50c0::ad1:ff, 2a10:50c0::ad2:ff) for a similar but less customizable experience.

The little lock shows that you're connecting via ssl (https) and the public key provided by the site is "trusted". Now just because both of those things are true doesn't necessarily mean that the site is safe, you could still be setting up a "secure" connection with a bad actor. A site with just http isn't necessarily a major risk. If I set up a site full of cat facts that doesn't collect any information from the user it's not especially risky for the user. Still it's best practice to use ssl for everything these days. A site with https that shows a broken lock means the certificate isn't "trusted". A certificate authority verifies that such-and-such website owns such-and-such public key to prevent attacks. There are half a dozen other reasons for ssl certificate errors too though so the site might still be safe even if the lock shows broken.