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Patron saint of Scottish golfers.

You can still run locally and use your GH or Alexa - I don't use HA but homebridge, I pay a small monthly subscription for a skill that allows me to integrate my existing voice assistants in the apple ecosphere. The skill is maintained by a long standing HB developer, no data is harvested. I can use it to control lights, but rarely do, I can do fun stuff like nag the wife for a coffee in the morning when she opens the fridge and get alerts when someone presses the doorbell amongst others. Basically it uses a cheap Alexa in the same role as an overpriced homepod. I know HA has their own voice assistant, but I would be really surprised if you cant integrate your existing devices into HA. I do pay for a deezer subscription, because It allows me to download the FLAC files and store them locally. Music can be played via a Navidrome server, streamed to your in home devices or car - I don't trust the music streaming services.

Don't vloggers prefer those osmo pocket things these days? Small and have a gimble function, Dont you already have a vlogging camera? On your phone? I have an zhiyun smooth gimble for my iPhone 2000B, you can add a wifi mic for 600B, not sure of the quality, a wired mic is even cheaper. A cheap LED panel. You dont mention what you intend, maybe a YouTube channel - knowing the success rate, I would spend as little as possible to test the water.

@Mutt Daeng I remember you posting a few months back. I also use PIA VPN, I think it’s one of the most stable companies - I also received the $49 renewal notice, I had intended to renew, I didn’t enter my new debit card number and just let it slip (it expired in the early hours of today) - I then received an automated email for an offer of $39 promo. To which I accepted. lol .. I have been a PIA customer for a fair few years, last year I just asked for a coupon as a regular customer, “can’t, but you can apply as a new customer and get a discount” .. I couldn’t work out the difference (apart from the $10, that is)

Where are you? Or where are you delivering to? Maybe I have a number. My wife gets bales of clothing from the Cambodian border, there are haulage services in most cities, you just need to know where to look. It’s small change, i think she pays 150B, way cheaper than any other courier or post office, you wouldn’t want to send anything delicate, but clothes it’s fine. Usually it gets delivered to the house by pickup, the guys are good at moving the bales, I would say they weigh 30-40kg. Other times big lorries deliver manned by a couple of migrant workers, sometimes the sender messes up and we have had to go pickup from a depot or side of the road.

He’s being sarcastic. I don’t know what the mother is worrying about, that’s a nice shiny adv150/350 I am sure as they could afford a new bike like that, the kid had full class 1 bike insurance. Leave it to the investigators to pursue. That’s also /s. Maybe it’s time for Thais to realise that insurance, consideration for other road users and rider training isn’t something that applies to other people.

This may be worth watching, just watching e01 - I feel I have been watching too many “guys-in-black-suits” series recently.

I think Thailand should enter into the 21st century, they are a country where a proportion of their money comes from tourists and expats. The university’s and schools are filled with kids that speak a variety of different languages, yet nothing changes. I don't know about anyone else’s experience and it’s not really necessary to me as I can conduct myself in Thai, but every year I process my visa and the only thing the immigration officer says is “sen .. here .. here”. Why are there not competent foreign language speakers working in key positions, at very least there should be a phone line where there is a Russian speaking Thai, for example. Why is there not a government department, staffed by uni graduates who are proficient in other languages who can create and maintain websites, create coherent forms that both Thai and westerners can understand. How many times do you complete a form with the assistance of your wife and the clerk takes it and says “no, no, no” and rewrites it. Even Thai people don’t have a clue what info needs to go where. Like you say, how can retirees from European countries all be expected to speak English to complete critical financial forms, what about if that applicant ended up over paying 100s of USD because of his inability and the inability of the Thai government to communicate with him? This isn’t a rant that Thai government department should all speak English, it’s why don’t they use their human resources available to them and improve their services? Instead it’s the usual inherent laziness and nepotism.

@Mutt Daeng @Will27 All 10 episodes of the agency s01 are available. “Martian is a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.” features Richard Geere, produced by George Clooney - some great locations and colours, if you know around the barbican and St. Paul’s. A worthy binge.

Wow! That is interesting. I have never heard from any other teacher that they have needed to show a tax receipt, but it does show that payment of tax could easily be demanded at visa application. When you are a teacher, the schools and the directors are known to the immigration bosses, some schools send an assistant to make sure there are no hitches when applying for an extension, it seems there is a certain amount of leeway. Anyway, let's all wait and see. I will use an agent to process my next visa, so I presume I will have a years grace to assess the situation.

I posted a similar question when we were building - our troublesome neighbor pointed a camera at our site, for some reason - I just built a garage infront of his camera. I never really got any real answers then. You should check out the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (the “PDPA”) - it seems even the police say "the installation of CCTV will not require a warning sign if it is intended to prevent crime and boost security" - so I think you might be out of luck. If it were me, I would speak to my local tessaban, who would send out an official who would give me the official line and maybe speak to the neighbor, perhaps he doesn't realize. If the official says there is nothing that could be done, you might be quite within your right to put up a camera on your land looking into his window or over his property (even a dummy camera) but it seems a bit antagonistic, how about a solar floodlight pointing level with his camera. Perhaps he just doesnt realize what he's doing. You can just put up a wall, some trees or even a sheet of plywood on the wall, blocking the cameras field of view. You could use a laser, but in practice, it's quite difficult to keep it trained upon a camera sensor. Thais dont seem to be too clued up on CCTV, they often just use mains powered wifi cameras, in which case it would be easy to use a deauth attack to continually take the camera offline. If you search YouTube, it won't be long before you come up with a cheap method to solve your problem.

And I have three accounts, one is an account that is used to keep 400K in for the purpose of visa. The money is never used for any other purpose, it just sits there. I dont know what I will do in the future, it appears that Kasikorn are not interested in a TIN for the purpose of reporting to the TRD, but for overseas reporting. I get the impression when posters have returned the forms and informed the teller that they have no need for a TIN as their pension is taxed in their home country, they have been met with a smile and the paperwork accepted. Am I correct?

My local immigration asked for a tax receipt when renewing extensions to teachers, the first year of enforcement they asked, some schools are supposed to file your tax that they deduct but never produce a receipt or TIN, the school I worked at, you were supposed to file your own, but no one ever did - when applicants didn't have the receipts, it was a "mai bpen rai, next year na" - the following year, they had given up asking for them. The immigration department are just RTP, they have no interest in enforcing all laws, only ones that they can profit from - maybe we will see an increase in visa applicants using agents if it is enforced.

The Night Agent - a Netflix series, S02 seems to have just started, did anyone catch S01? Worth a watch? There was another 24 hours in police .. last Monday, again, not really interesting.

Fifine, also make some mics that may suit. I spent a few days watching YouTube videos and deciding upon mine based upon budget, but you may find that a fifine mic in your price range may be a better bet. You might even be better with a USB mic, straight into your laptop, and using a software mixer - then polishing the recording with audacity