sometimewoodworker

If you look at reviews and examples you will find that cheap cameras are not good enough to capture the details you need. Good cameras start at about 4,000. The cheapest of the good ones are the Viofo A129 Pro Duo Ultra 4k Front + Full Hd 1080p Rear Dual Channel Wi-Fi Gps Dash Cameras. I can't comment about the Xiaomii as I haven't seen reviews of them in comparison to others, they certainly cold be good. The Blackvue are excellent but are very expensive in comparison to others at over 2.5 X the price of the Viofo, for me I can't see the value. As to wiring in or using a cigarette lighter plug, wiring in is neat and simple for any accessory shop it takes about 30 minutes and is invisible using the 12v plug is a pain as I need it to charge devices. If you want the cameras to be on standby when the ignition is off you really want a battery pack designed for the job. I haven't bothered with ours.

Neither did I nor do I use DTAC, however DAGS is usually a good first step as it keeps up with changes. Useful to keep in mind. ????

It is often though to be only specifically used in electrical cabling to stop water ingress. However if it can stop water getting into a joint it can (and in one of my showers it does) stop water getting out. I have a stainless steel fitting on my shower that has cracked and a replacement would be a few thousand Baht. The first application was not quite strong enough to resist the pressure but as it is amalgamating tape a subsequent extra few layers both stand up to the high pressure water and look reasonably neat. short of a replacement or stainless steel welding I think it’s the only way to fix this problem. it isn’t inexpensive but for the jobs it can do it is cheap. It is infinitely better than electrical tape as there is no adhesive to get sticky

Why not start with DAGS??? You do not need to travel to register. DTAC registration

There is one possible problem that hasn’t been mentioned, that if you apply for a Non-O visa in Thailand for the purposes of retirement, the regulations actually require that the 800k be transferred into Thailand, this requirement is not always strictly enforced if you have had this on deposit for a reasonably long time. the enforcement for this differs from office to office and even from IO to IO in the same office. This requirement does not apply to getting a Non-O in Thailand for the purposes of living with your wife. So this detail reinforces the benefits of getting a Non-O visa (to visit your spouse) in the U.K. before returning.

A solution that is missing, so far, is the 3M amalgamating tape it is 23 Rubber Splicing Tape this will resist pressure and you can just add to it if you don’t have enough thickness. This would be my first choice as though you do need to clean the pipe it is reasonably easy to fit, it will also fit on bends and other shapes.

The best wipers are BOSCH AEROTWIN they are easily available on Lazada, certainly not the cheapest but no difficult getting them.

I prefer, and use, the very smooth plastic ones that have no adhesive. If you get eye windscreen completely clean the hold with no problem. I hate the the ones that have actual sticky on them.

Further to the above, if someone has a need for a MacBook Pro that is good at video editing then waiting for the currently announced M2 is a poor idea as the only one is the M2 not the M2 Pro or the M2 Max. So with longer high resolution video the M1 Pro or M1 Max are a far better today and better than the announced M2. prices are from ฿46,900 (13” M2) up to a maxed M1 max ฿215,900 So bottom line the best MacBook Pro is extremely dependent on the use case and an M2 is not the automatic choice, neither is the memory or storage.

Mine is in for service at the moment and because of that I have no idea when it’s going to be back ????

Google maps are excellent at telling you how long a current journey will take. It will not do a good job of a journey in the future. the reason is that it has current information on traffic and current jams or slow areas. It doesn’t know if there will be slow traffic at a time in the future. Some trips take 20 minutes in normal traffic but your actual trip time can be 2 hours, for example a Friday early evening with torrential rain. So is it realistic? Yes if there are no traffic holdups. Or No if Bangkok traffic is having a bad day

For a beginner getting a pack of 1.6mm, a pack of 2mm as well as the standard 2.6mm will allow for rather less burn through on the commonly available steel stock these are available on Lazada if, as is usual, your local shops don’t have them

Yes they are, but easier does not equal easy

There is no single cost per unit and the bill never breaks it down. then there is the fuel tariff on all units and the standing charge the fuel tariff currently positive, it has has been negative for a while if you want a rough approximation that some people are happy with then just divide the total cost by the number of units. if however you want to be exact then you need to know the tariff you are on (usually 1.1.2)

No kind of lecky, But I certainly have an ability to write English and proof read my posts so they are at least understandable, even if misspelled. ????

Well Mr snarky. I was also addressing the OP’s question. Just because someone is looking for a MacBook Pro doesn’t mean that they have a need or use for the currently unnecessary (unless you are doing 8k video export on a regular basis) extra 8GB of integrated memory or an extremely expensive 1 TB internal SSD. It equally doesn’t mean that if they have a use for that configuration now that they should not get it. So the advice to get 16k integrated memory and a 1TB SSD disk now is only worthwhile for few users and poor for many The M series is in its infancy so projecting 5 years into the future is far less sure than with Intel CPUs

I think that that demonstrates the point I was making. I am using older machines with older Mac OS versions running older SW to do a job. I also have several/many external drives that I use to boot into different MacOS versions as needed. So I don’t need/want a machine that gets locked into upgrading to the last available OS. If I want the current OS version I boot into an SSD with it to run the latest SW I don’t know how easy it is to switch to older systems on a single machine with windows or Linux I do know that it is trivial on Mac as well as running as many versions of windows as I want to go back to. For me the integration is key not just nice, and everything just works. I maybe locked in but having everything jut working in HomeKit makes a huge difference, adding an item I just scan it’s Qr code and it’s in. If you aren’t running HK as your primary controller it’s advantages are not so easy to realise I do have some devices, mostly smart plugs, that are outside HK and it’s rather annoying.

Boo hoo, it has not been unnecessary, it’s reduced the speed of the spread saving the lives of multiple thousands who did not overcrowd the hospitals Lucky you, many have died, many have severe consequences, you didn’t die, you don’t have long COVID-19 We did over the last 2 winters. Social distance, masking, hand washing and chemical sanitation. All of that dropped the influenza deaths. But great!!! throw away masks, Social distance, hand washing and chemical sanitation let’s get back to passing on disease so the usual number of people can die USA estimated 2017-2018 season (61,000 deaths). 2018-2019 season (34,200 deaths) 2019-2020 season (22,000 deaths) 2020–2021 season (700 deaths) but of course many vulnerable people died of COVID-19 so there won’t be as many to die from the flue

They can keep it indefinitely. Customer and government pressure will persuade them to relax it, so you will be free to catch and pass on colds, flue and COVID-19

You buy tickets and loose your money. simple ???? But there are many more tickets sold for those 2 so the chances of winning are much lower, also the 1st prize is shared between winners in those 2 dropping the value of the first prize. Absolutely true, but the prizes are not shared here

Well the HomeKit integration with security cameras with secure cloud data storage and Aqara sensors and the Hue Items, the AirPlay network as I mentioned all of these can be done using different apps possibly better but not as easily is there an integrated windows or Android app? As I get older I find the joys in using my devices to do stuff not in doing stuff to them. when I was 20 I stripped and rebuilt my motorcycles today if I had one I would pay someone to do it for me. Android and windows seem like I would need to get my hands dirty, with apple I don’t need to but I can go into the guts and, for example, edit the apache server configuration if I get the urge

What is your definition of the effective lifetime of a computer? I suspect that we may differ on that. Mine is that it continues to run and runs the programs that I need it to. I have a 2010 Mac mini that is on 24/7/365 it runs a few programs it could be headless. The main one I need it for is Eudora. It’s fast when I need to access it. It has paid for itself many times over. My main computer is a 12.9” 5th Gen. iPad the desktops are mostly a backup for my wife’s iPhone 11 Pro my 2020 iPhone SE this iPad and all the others we have around. I really should get round to getting rid of some of them.

I was dragging kicking and screaming into the Mac world in 1990 using Macintosh Plus computers coming from DR-DOS CPM and other esoteric options like 6502 eeprom writing. I hated it, but have since then have used every OS from system 5 to the current Mac OS The advice on the machine to buy is tremendously dependent on the usage and internet access available. Certainly the intel Macs will drop in value quite a bit faster now the M series is here but that may make a buying opportunity in a nearly new used machine. I doubt that I would advise the majority of users to go to the spec you suggest

A point that is missing from your analysis is the useful lifespan of apple products along with the great tech support. With the phones a 2015 iPhone is still supported My 2017 Android phone stopped support 2 years ago i have Wi-Fi end points from 2004, 2008, and 2011 that still do a good job, I haven’t tried the flying saucer one in 15 years but it probably still works as well as it did. with computers my current desktop machines are from 2010 and 2015 each has it place and are still completely functional. That doesn’t cover the iPods that still are in daily use I am thinking of getting yet another as some software is only supported by current models and I could do with a faster Mac to run my virtual windows machine for the one piece of software that is windows only So on average the usable life span is double or greater than the competition. Yes I’ve had machines that had physical problems, they were all dealt with by apple tech support, one laptop was replaced with a new model 3 years after purchasing it, so the price you pay when buying is a poor way to judge. Where else will you find a manufacturer that has a machine collected on a Tuesday afternoon, delivered back on Thursday morning with a replacement motherboard all at zero cost? However despite all the above for the majority of windows users all the undoubted advantages of the Apple ecosystem do not outweigh or compensate for the difficulty of switching, so my advice is to stay with what you know and upgrade more often, it’s the same for Android phone users stay with Android and change your phone more often. For myself I only got my first new smart phone 2 years ago to use CarPlay on our new car I had to buy virtually no software as the iPad programs just worked I had no learning curve. The Android phone I don’t count it was inherited from my brother and was only useful for a few weeks. Now it’s mostly a paperweight. Apple has a ecosystem with most parts adding or multiplying its benefits. Take any one point and there is probably something as good or a little better, with the whole there’s nothing that can possibly compete

I’m sure that you can get those but you have missed out on the number size drills, so there are 3 different size sets or series, metric, imperial and number. With wood screws they are still generally sold in the imperial number sizes, though you can get the metric sizes from specialist suppliers often with Torx socket heads. And that doesn’t go into the different ways of driving or head forms Slot, Philips, Pozi, Roberts and Torx are the main ones along with Coffin, and various other usually specialist ones. Then with metal fasteners the possible series of thread forms is numerous and getting a specific one is a bit of a crapshoot