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Out of the westerners in Thailand Youtubers, I like Karl's Thailand for some off-the-beaten-track hiking videos. There's also Life with Serg, an American wandering around Bangkok and doing some motorcycling trips around Thailand.

Something like a Samsung A15 is good enough for many people, it's why so many are sold. My niece always has the latest and greatest Samsung at five times the price. In her job, she makes use of the premium features it comes with. I don't game, and I'm not making videos for YouTube, so while I can afford $2K for a phone, it would be a waste of money. A bright high-res screen with a snappy processor, maybe a step up from an A15 is all I need.

Police will simply wait at his grandmothers or some other relatives place upcountry. He will turn up there eventually if he isn't captured en route.

If it's anything like Singapore, it will be far easier than you think. For Singapore, as mentioned earlier, you complete the online form before you arrive. On arrival, you scan your passport at the auto-arrival gates and breeze through; you don't have any interaction with airport staff. For anyone who hasn't completed the form before arriving, Changi has tablets available for you to submit the form at the airport. If maids from Indonesia and the Philippines can figure it out, I'm sure you will too. Tip: It's far quicker to do it online before you arrive.

1984 Honda City two seater, similar to the pic but mine was dark blue. Two-seater because that way Honda paid less tax to import them into Australia. You could add rear seats later yourself, but being a small car, many people like me didn't bother. Somehow I did Melbourne Adelaide return a couple of times, so noisy inside. Drove it for two years before moving up to a Corolla Seca.

Free public transport... nice idea, but with trains on the blue line already so crowded, I think I will take a taxi to my destination next week, to avoid the crush 🙂

Even now, the blue line from Bang Sue into Asok is always very crowded, not only at peak times. I use it at around ten thirty in the morning, a couple of days a week, and it is very full even then. Peak hour outward from Asok and everyone is packed in like sardines like you said, simply cannot board some trains. The Red Line isn't as crowded, but in peak hour there are no longer spare seats since they started the twenty baht fare promotion, which I guess is a good thing. The reading in northern Bangkok near me right now is 205, but I'm hoping it improves so I can venture out. At times you can smell smoke in the air. I have developed a terrible cough, so I wear an N95 mask every time I walk out the door, it's causing real health issues for me at the moment.

Get on the JIB website. Go to laptops. Filter your search, e.g. price 20-30k, brands e.g., Asus, Acer, Dell. Trawl the results to find your selection of ports etc. Get an external hub like BB suggested if you require more ports than on a laptop. Buy a new external hard drive to put your movies on. Repairing your old hard drive... people mostly only try if they really, really need to recover their data. It's generally not a cheap process, if it's even viable. You could always ask at some of the small repair shops if they think it is worth a shot. JIB, understandably, is going to want to sell you a new one. I don't know TukCom, but most IT malls have at least one secondhand PC shop. You can get some good deals on three or four year old desktops with a three-month warranty. A new Win 11 desktop at JIB that easily does what you want would be around 25k.

I get those messages when using certain apps. It's advertising, not system messages, so it's safe to ignore them. One PDF app, e.g. Foxit etc. is all you should usually need. If your PDF reader needed updating, it would show up with all other updates in the Play Store (Android). The only way to stop seeing these "messages" would be to delete the apps that they show up in. The problem is, they can appear in otherwise useful and legit apps.

I think I'm paying about 40AUD a year for the VPN I use, but I'm not using 3BB so what you need to pay is for you to decide. I can watch the international sports and news I'm interested in without buffering and have no issues with banking. Not as fast as Nord, but it suits me. Nord was double the price, even with an introductory offer. Also, once the intro offer expires, there can be steep price increases. I know there are cashback, etc. offers people say they pay next to nothing for, but they seem to require jumping through a lot of hoops. Everyone has a different setup, different needs. I'd test some of the free ones first. If they aren't any good, try the paid ones. Some have money-back guarantees. If they don't work like you think they should, move on to the next.

I've tried a few different VPNs over the years. Speeds took a hit with all the ones I've tried. Sometimes as much as ninety percent, depending on the location selected. The fastest I found was Nord, but it was pricey, so it wasn't worth it for me.

What you suggest would seem sensible. When I came back after the pandemic, I was able to get the credit left on my then expired Rabbit card refunded in cash. I had to show my passport I used from when I originally paid for it. The problem was, that was a now expired passport. I was able to show them a photo of my old passport's data page on my phone, and that was accepted. I did this late at night on one of the outer stations, so it was probably easier than a busy station like Sukhumvit. I then purchased a new card. I think maybe this only applies to the Skytrain. The Rabbit card lets you have a balance of up to four thousand baht you can use to make purchases with at various shops. Thais have to register too. It's about preventing money laundering, apparently. I don't think you can use the MRT or Red Line card for anything other than train travel, so no ID is required; at least I can't recall being asked for any.

The Royal Melbourne Golf Club is an elite, private Members’ club. If you don't mind waiting ten years, the joining fee alone is nearly $20k AU, plus an annual sub of about $6K. As an Australian, If I'm from outside Victoria, I would be paying $500 for a guest round. Guest fees are based on residency. As for Thailand, I vote with my feet. I'm not paying x10 to visit some waterfall. Double, no problem but not ten times. Maybe if I were on my first trip overseas, it would be different, but I've traveled a lot, seen plenty of wonderful sights. When I spent a long time in the US, I liked the National Parks pass you could buy that let you into all of their many spectacular parks for one yearly fee.

I also like Anitech. I've been using the one below for a while. I have three used with different computers. You can use as Bluetooth or wireless. They have forward and back buttons, which I find very handy. Battery life is decent. Available widely. Officemate sells them for around 360 baht, but you can find them lower priced in IT malls. https://anitechonline.com/product/w226-bk-เม้าส์ไร้สาย-ชนิดแบบ-2-ฟ/

They may have a point. I get varying speeds when I test, depending on the device being used. I pay for 1000/500 or 1000/1000, can't remember which. On a four year old budget Samsung A12, I get 100/150. On my wife's year-old, higher-spec Oppo phone, it's 300/270. On my year old medium spec laptop, 480/400. The interesting test result was on a seven year old desktop. I swapped in a tp-link Archer TX50E Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 PCIe adapter, and the download test speed went from 400 to 950.