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I used an agent for the past 2 years as I didn’t have funds. i still had to show up and go through the song and dance. Yesterday I renewed on my own, bank was a lot easier - the two times I was the bank, reception was frosty. Last year there was a mess up, the agent assumed I would bring copies, I thought she would bring the copies I emailed her. We left it to the day before the visa expired because the crooked immigration officer was on holiday. It was stressful, trying to cobble documents together and relying upon him to print. Yesterday, the documents were printed off and checked 2 days prior. The actual procedure was 20 mins, and was mostly her shuffling papers and taking selfies rather than the interview I used to get. If I know there is a lot of walking, pressure waiting for me or standing around I may use a wheelchair. I itv regard to mobility or stress, I don’t see what an agent does apart from complicating things. I wish there was a way to not attend, I don’t know how approach the subject if I get to a point where I physically cannot attend.

Sorry, I misunderstood - financials - I just checked, the guy I used charge 1000B to use his credit card. I posted his name earlier, I dont think I need to advertise, most people know who he is.

Ahh, ok, fair play. Yes, the price of the UK passport included - you need to use a UK credit card, Thai debit cards aren't accepted, or are at least problematic, so the advice is not to use. The agent I used offers the use of his cc for a thousand baht - but the passport is what? give or take 100 quid - 5-6K THB? (idk) then someone is making some good coin! The guy I used in Chiang Mai is really popular. 3500THB gets him to act as knowledge base, check your documents before you send to him, taking it to VFS and return registered postage. ETS: I just checked again .. it was 2x payments, sorry, one was 3500 and an initial 1500 = 5000THB, still 3K less.

This thread is about renewing a passport? Yeah, agreed - on the visa - I paid 23K for mine when I found myself temporarily embarrassed - but I never gave the passport to anyone, I still have to attend and go through the motions - the fee is just to borrow the money for a few minutes and to not look too hard at the statement.

Do they still make Tippex? I remember the double packs with the thinners that you put on the cuff off your school jumper and took a good hit. I think in the UK, my father was able to apply for a renewal using his webcam, it gave an instant confirmation (or am I confused, due to excessive use of tippex thinners) - even still, going to the photo studio is so redundant these days, I did mine with my cellphone and an app that checks the dimensions, it may just aswell all go 100% online.

Where did you get the idea of 12,000THB? It's only 3500THB. Hardly worth worrying about, I make more than that in the days I would have to take off to go and deliver the documents.

Another thing that is nuts. Even tho, as mentioned the passport with a cut corner is virtually worthless. You take it to immigration and transfer all your extension stamps, I think mine was a free service and really effortless - it occupies the first two pages. But every renewal I need to take the old passport and copies of original visa sticker from idk 12 years ago, plus entry stamp, even tho they have been transferred to the new passport by immigration.

Correct .. makes no difference whatsoever. I paid for the convenience of not having to repeat the process again, I did it once when they first started using VFS - 4 flights and a hotel plus days off work plus whatever expenses for 3-4 days in Bangkok cost way more than the agent. Your document are fine, just one, the bank statement is sufficient. I made the comment and then realised that I sent mine and the agent informed me if I wanted to go the DL route he would need an original - not just a copy - if you are submitting yourself, you will probably have it in your pocket. Actually the process is really easy, I remember the first one I did, I needed a counter signatory from a UK doctor, engineer, accountant or priest - and was sent to Hong Kong via DHL. The process now is quite easy and fast, I wish we could post our own tho’ or even online - I used an app on my phone to take the photo, the app knew all about size and proportions, so easy.

I used a guy Mark Jacob, in Chiang Mai to process mine, was cheaper than the flights. He drops the papers into Chiang Mai VFS. They called me to tell me to pickup, they asked if I was using Khun Mark and to just send him a message to pickup. That was about a year back.

(I just remembered, I applied by an agent which makes a big difference) I was told if you are applying for a UK passport renewal, you need the original document - you can use a Thai DL but you need to produce the original. I was recommended to get a stamped bank statement from kasikorn, it was easy enough. If that helps you any. I just used an agent, the flights alone would have cost more.

I know ... I thought the first season was good. The one where they deep fake video, The second series was less believable as far as I could remember. There are 6 episodes .. someone mentioned there are only 2.

I just noticed The Capture is back, E01 must have been last night .. The first season was good.

You can just use a small UPS, to power it, the cheapest you can find on lazada. Then it would click in when the power goes off. You could use a car battery and an inverter I guess. TBH, I tried a UPS, but it didnt work, although you have local connectivity, the local internet is might be reliant upon power, if the grid goes down, then you dont have any connection.

No, im talking about using a unified system to improve my yields in my garden. Youtube seems to be full of tech-bros saying they are making $$ but really they are grifters with no real use case, if they are making money on something other than selling a coures, its all very vague - some people admittedly are using n8n or coding in commercial workflow, but prolly a small percentage. I can see a few use cases in my life here, just wondering if anyone else could. I should post your replies into openclaw, to see if it comes back with a one sentence explanation.

errr .. ok. You often rattle on about AI, so you just use a chatbot to chat over using it in the real world? good idea - I could do with some assistance - I have had a good week, its all about teaching the model, I could do with building the instructions.

And Sam Altman bought openclaw .. This is really exciting, the security issues need to be addressed, and hopefully more people will understand. Just one thing I’m working on, I want to get more vegetables from my garden, so my agent is logging weather data on influxdb, it’s written the code to build a local temperature sensor using a spare nodemcu, it’s built a database in obsidian - which I have no clue about yet, a dashboard in grafana, and it has access to a calendar in Apple calendar. I have a page in bookstack for each of the vegetables, it researched and wrote a garden guide. I added some data this year from when I planted and how long before I saw some activity, I guess that will move to obsidian - the agent will start to cross reference times and weather patterns and adapt the calendar, letting me know when I need to start to plant seeds. I started creating a calendar myself a year back but now I have more data to apply.

lol .. the ‘s’ in openclaw stands for security, I think there is a lot of hype on both sides, like the guy who claimed his assistant stole his credit card details and purchased a 3000 USD course to allow it to fulfil his task lol, rrrright. I find a lot of times Apple have placed a lot of control in place to not permit actions, I wanted the assistant to write notes for me as I use notes / reminders / calendar as my main productivity suite. The skills are unreliable and I gave the assistant its own google account, it has a calendar thats sync’d one way. It doesn’t know any email addys other than my family. I think it’s important to distance the ai. So far I have had it writing arduino code and it did a really good job of listening to what I wanted, fulfilling the brief and producing a fun little toy. I have been using discord to interact, but yesterday I had an idea to do some research into LINE messenger, maybe there is some mileage there offering services to businesses. Every idea I have is not possible to implement, the Japanese developers don’t allow these actions. I cant open the link you sent, but for sure, there are security concerns, I have seen all the videos, but at the moment it’s quite fun, I have a daily limit of tokens and I’m working on setting up services, developing skills and working with the assistant until the tokens run out. I was just wondering if anyone else is experimenting and how we can use this technin Thailand.

Is anyone else using it yet? https://openclaw.ai

I saw this being mentioned - I will start tonight

Indeed, he was also in Jay & Silent Bob, and Exective producer of City On The Hill

Lots of shows are available on amazon - but not in this region, so you might need a VPN to access them, along with an amazon subscription. Some services recognise a VPN, for example C4 and they block certain things, I can download and decrypt on my computer, but after installing the app and VPN on my appleTV doesnt let me access C4 shows. Amazon may be like this, idk. Your show is on britbox, so if you have a britbox account, you might be able to stream with a VPN. Most expats would use one of the clandestine streaming services, (which I would advise not to use, but many use them quite happily), downloading torrent content, or some folks use dedbrid, which I can honestly say I have never looked at, it uses torrent distribution to stream content, actually quite clever but I would rather have something in my home rather than wonder why the stream is slow or buffering (im not even sure it does that)

https://machomeservice.com He works on vintage Macs - you might need to go there to his little workshop and plead with him, but he's a nice guy. I hope you have success. Post back, if you dont, If I finally get around to getting my little workbench setup - I could probably help you. good lighting and a comfortable environment is all thats really needed with iPods.

I have done mine before, it was a while back. I bought a new back, new front, battery, new wheel, the board for the sd cards. I'm not really setup enough at home to take it on for you, but its easy to do yourself, its just clip-in ribbon cable. Where are you? im sure macupdate in Khon Kaen would do it .. also machome in BKK, he messes around with vintage iMacs. Maybe he would take it on.

My wife is fine with the phone, but its the first 5-10-15 mins, she might have not understood its a decent movie yet - so she decides to do something else, maybe checking her phone, going to the toilet, etc .. It wasn't until the second act of Sisu, did she realize its the kind of movie that she likes and then started watching it properly. The classic was during one our favourites here, Gomorrah .. after 50 hours of it, she sits down during the final episode, watches like 15 mins of it and asks "who is that? why did he do that for?" - I could have screamed.

I was just thinking to myself as I watched Sisu 2 last night - it's great to have a better choice of Thai subtitles these days. Although not a great deal of dialogue, I was glad the missus doesnt have to pester me to find out what was going on. I enjoyed it, as entertaining as the first, thanks to whoever mentioned it last year. She loves Selling Sunset and all the selling.. spinoffs (if you haven't seen it, just don't) so its great that Netflix has subs and she understands all the politics. Im finding Fallout series 2 a little boring - There's a some new 24 hour in police custody - last week about the escrochat hack. Two more unrelated specials to follow this week. Currently watching Thousand Blows first series and a sci-fi from 2018, The First https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7412482 ETS: Oh, and Industry, returns