ukrules

7 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Does it have a scheduling feature that allows you to set it to automatically do the backups every day or week or whatever?

I believe it does as it specifies 'scheduled backups' in the features, but I shut down my system every night and don't leave the backup destination drives lying around and definitely not connected to the computer unless they are bign used to create a backup so I don't use the schedule.

When I do a backup I need to unmount my encrypted filesystem and I back it up as a single large file and then backup 'the rest' of whatever I backup as separate tasks.

You can specify many tasks and configure them separately.

Have you tried 'GoodSync' - it syncs files one or two ways to a local destination, keeps directory structure and leaves the files intact and usable directly on the destination with no 'container' creation - that's one of its selling points :

"Access: Unlike traditional file backup services, GoodSync directly backs up and updates the actual data files themselves in their native formats rather than images of the source data. In the event of data loss in the source folder, files in the destination folder can be launched immediately, thereby reducing any unnecessary downtime."

https://www.goodsync.com

Not sure how it handles cloud drives though.

It's not free but does have a free 'tier' that is no doubt limited in some way, but you get what you pay for which is why you're having problems. It's $21 for the paid personal version - this is your solution.

It works very well and I've been using it for many years to sync to USB / thunderbolt external drives.

2 hours ago, george said:

 

@ukrules Politics?

Or a harbinger of things to come elsewhere.....

6 hours ago, JoePai said:

Makes sense, thanks George

What doesn't make any sense at all is the crazy new visa fees announced in NZ

Them elephant farms must be real profitable to pay 1 million baht a month in rent

6 hours ago, lkn said:

With a treasure asset though, somebody is owing you money, and they will pay you interests on that money.

 

If you buy BTC, nobody will pay you interest, and nobody owes you anything. So a better analogy would be a commodity. You can place your money in a commodity (corn, oil, wheat, copper, etc.) and you have the commodity until you sell it to someone else.

 

Main difference though is that you can pretty much always sell corn, copper, or oil, because there are people or industries that depend on these things. Not sure who depend on BTC.

You're right of course, I'm just 'ahead of the curve'. Look back on this post in 5 to 10 years time, it will still be here.

12 minutes ago, lkn said:

There are a bunch of technical problems that just makes it a really bad payment method

I prefer to think of Bitcoin as a treasury asset

6 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Is it the Laptop?

I doubt it - how much did this new mouse cost?

22 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

I don't know what I was thinking when I bought it 4 years ago at just over 6000$ a pop.   But I guess you are just a bit smarter than me eh?   

Did you sell it all already?

9 minutes ago, timendres said:

 

If I read this correctly, the exemption applies only to VAT, not income or capital gains taxes.

In other words, brokers will not have to pay 7% VAT on transactions they perform trading.

However, I believe that if you realize a gain on your trading, you will still likely be liable for

income and/or capital gains taxes.

Correct which means personal income tax rates apply, that they wanted 7% on top of this was an industry killer.

What Thailand needs is a bunch of crypto ETFs which are treated the same as all other stock exchange funds - which means you are not taxed on profits, only dividends - of which there would be none in an ETF holding only crypto.

So - when will Thailand get a Bitcoin ETF which makes it tax efficient to invest?

4 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

When you refer to 'They'.....  [hate us]... are you stating to ALL Thai's hating ALL foreigners in Thailand, or are you stating ALL Immigration officers hate ALL foreigners ??

 

And, where did you get this attitude from ???.....   

I'm saying that immigration officers who act like this hate us, definitely not all of them, in fact most of them are pretty good and efficient at their jobs.

This attitude? I was born with it.

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

Great question

No....it didn't,strangely it stayed at around 140/87

 

It then got me thinking and this only like 10  days on 5mg a day , but it got me thinking ," crikey I hope I don't need to take 10mg a day 

 

But by then the ankles had swelled ,the muscle aches set in ,the fatigue so I have stopped Amlodipine now for about 4 days and ...I'm feeling much better , strangely my BP is still around 138/140 and I'm just going to accept it 

I don't need all this medication these doctors are trying to put me on 

You need a different medication, that's what you need, if any. Your BP is not that high.

Check out this website for BP ranges : https://bloodpressureok.com/

There are many alternatives, discuss this with your Doctor, Amlodipine is merely one of dozens of commonly available medications.

There is no reason to ever put up with medications that don't work for you especially if they introduce side effects when there's so many alternatives available.

For example my father was taking Lisinopril (Lispril brand here) and was also on Furosemide (a diuretic) for a separate condition (Oedema of the feet) which made his BP too low (like 80/50 low) so they dropped the Lisinopril as it really is so very effective at reducing BP, one of the side effects is low BP and reduced the Furosemide, now he's just fine.

If your normal Doctor is not too familiar with all the treatments then go and speak to a Cardiologist who most certainly will be.

On 2/28/2024 at 11:15 AM, georgegeorgia said:

My BP before Amlodipine was 140/87 

The dr said that's too high go on the Amlodipine

Did the medication lower your BP?

2 hours ago, noobexpat said:

Unless you believe in a never ending supply of fools.

Doesn't have to be never ending but lets say it lasts for 100 years, is that essentially the same as forever?

One day longer than we live and it's not a zero sum game.

It doesn't need to 'go up forever' and the supply of fools is in great abundance.

7 minutes ago, OneZero said:

Somebody educate me.  If these people legitimately own the car & are simply waiting for the legal plates to arrive, what is the incentive for them to spend money on forged red plates? 

Yeah, I find it really weird too. Fake plates were used in the past to avoid detection of stolen cars, not to brag about special '8888' lucky numbers which are obviously fake.

I think these people are more than a little dim

4 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

Yea....viral....and there's only 300 million Indonesians...and agree, let it pass. But, Thais must have the last word!

They have now revealed a 'weak spot' on which they are ultra sensitive.

4 hours ago, george said:

They only snail mail the physical card to Thailand at your request, but require an address in your home country, on file (TIN tax reasons). 

But my 'home country' is merely the country that prints my passport every 9 years. I don't even go there any more.

Does this mean I'm excluded or need to be scrutinised by the UK tax man?

I guess what I'm asking is do they open 'offshore' accounts for people living in Thailand?

37 minutes ago, ukrules said:

 

Once day in the next 3 to 6 months I suspect the total AUM of all Gold ETFs will surpass that of the Bitcoin ETFs.

I wrote that the wrong way around - Bitcoin will surpass Gold ETFs.....

2 hours ago, Heng said:

Where do ya'll think (guess) btc will top out this time around?

No idea, I've always been way off with any predictions, and that's going way back more than 10 years so I don't even bother.

I'm still amazed it ever got to $10k

I think the ETFs are a game changer though. I also notice that the Gold ETFs are seeing outflows while the Bitcoin ETFs are seeing large inflows.

Once day in the next 3 to 6 months I suspect the total AUM of all Gold ETFs will surpass that of the Bitcoin ETFs.

Of course the Gold ETFs are just a small part of the overall Gold market, wonder if the Bitcoin ETFs will scoop up a lot more of the Bitcoin market, it's considerably easier to buy it if you've already got a brokerage account that provides access. That said there's a lot of brokers who don't as they're still in the due dilligence stage, but it will come.

5 hours ago, Pdavies99 said:

It looks like New Zealand is on Thailand's "s..t" list

Question is, why?

I popped into my bank, updated the address from Thai to English and had them print me out a fresh statement to prove my address.

I used it for a proof of address when opening a Bitcoin exchange account overseas, specifically in the US and others.

In fact I opened a whole bunch of exchange accounts while I had the fresh bank letter.

Kasikorn.