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I thought the first episode was a bit dull, but I enjoyed the second episode last night - the trailer looks good. I just noticed it gets some great reviews on IMDb and rated one of the most anticipated releases of the year.

I thought the prisoners slept on mats on the floor, with 50 other inmates? This guy seemed to be in the VIP section. Why is this different for him? Well, I know why, but why not for others?

It’s only been shown on Israeli TV with Hebrew subs - Apple have postponed the worldwide release because of the ongoing conflict. its a matter of waiting or hacking, I use infuse player which allows you to put a dark background behind subtitles. They missing episodes are available, I can make them available somewhere if they can’t be tracked down.

84 weed shops! When I first went there (only visited twice) I dont think there were 84 buildings in the village.

The poster says, that he doesn’t experience any slow down either using bridge mode or not. I posted that if he doesn’t use his router in bridge mode then he will create a double NAT.

Damn, I thought the some of locals were stupid. Committing a crime, on a rental motorbike, presumably with the plates on it, and wearing recognizable clothing. Classic.

Yes, I loved the first seasons, funny as .. Season 4 is upcoming. I watched e02 last night, wife gave up on it first, wishing for the new episode of the “hotel” to drop, and my mind just wandered, just too much going on. Bambi is dead? Wt? I thought Richard Gere was a good choice for The Agency but I thought DeNiro was just thrown in there to add to a bad concept.

I bought an sh optiplex from Lazada - now you mention it, it was missing the power cord. Mine was the cheapest SFF I could find (3000B) with an i3, was hellishly sluggish even tho it had an ssd. I used it for testing out docker containers, it didn’t get much use and then one day, I went to it and the power supply had gone south. I would buy another USFF but not an i3 maybe i5 or i7 like the Lenovo posted above, they are ok.

You may not notice any difference when not using bridge mode on the AIS router, but you create a double NAT - https://kb.netgear.com/30186/What-is-double-NAT-and-why-is-it-bad it makes it difficult to be connectable to the outside world which may not effect you, depending upon your setup, security cameras, maybe if you play online games which depend upon speed, torrents will find it difficult to connect, but peers will eventually connect to you. It’s not really good practice to have a double NAT.

Oh. The new series of The White Lotus appeared.

I like it, it’s a bit sci-if, a bit conspiracy mystery. I just finished Tehran S03, was good, maybe a lot more action than previous seasons, a bit more like Fauda - the subs aren’t with the file, so needed to be pulled from another source, but then I leaned that I can set the background to 100% opacity and block out the Hebrew subs. I tried watching Prime Target and gave it up after two episodes .. is it worth continuing? I started on The Sketch Artist a Canadian drama, French language - maybe worthwhile, it was on Walter pres. last week. and a new series of Yellowjackets, im still confused.

It’s “veg material” totally unbelievable, unbelievably craap - Thai subs, the missus likes it, it’s a winner if it means Thai TV is on hold. Talking of carp, I just started watching 2025 season of pawn stars seems so dated and cringable, unbelievable that they made so many series. Another missable series is The Hunting Party

I have had a couple of calls from immigration - they go along the lines of “Hello, your darling? Yoo? Darling - - yoo?” or “S-peak Thailand?”

Coming Feb 20th

Nice .. do you really benefit from two subs? I have a Polk 5.1 system, i have the capability to add a second sub but not the floorspace, just wondering if I am missing out. Do you have neighbours btw?

Have you tried contacting the ISP? They might be able to help. If you want to ditch your router and want a cleaner solution, you could use a Huawei EG8010 ONT. You can find them on lazada. There is a guide here on how to put them into bridge mode. I am on 3BB which has been bought out by AIS. I use the Huawei ONT which I get from the ISP, it’s rock solid, apart from when I move house and then everything goes to crap - there is a guy at the 3BB office who actually does understand and he helps me out, there is a bit of config on the isp server afaik. You could try contacting someone on the ISP team and explain that your want to use the SPF port on your own router. I was a structured cable engineer, it’s not really my dept. but there would be a cab in a data center that would contain the kit for the ISP. You wouldn’t have a bank of cheap wifi routers in bridge mode hanging off the back of the shelf. What do they do in Thailand? Try speaking to anyone at the ISP about enterprise solutions and no one can speak to you. Good luck, just out of interest, what are you using a unifi or fortinet router?

Smart TVs are generally underpowered, our Samsung would never run the AIS play app, always stalling and buffering - I changed over to an android TV box and all the issues went away - If you use an iPhone, then consider an apple TV, it’s a pretty slick experience.

Yes, this is the way - I was busy at the time building, so I had other things to think about. Some may not think it’s just being “ridden” but during my time here I have had a couple of visits from the police who didn’t bother to do any homework. One Sunday evening we heard the gate of our town house being shook and pulled, the wife and I poked our heads up off the sofa to find a couple of police trying to get in - apparently there had been a report of domestic violence, somewhere, not in my house. It was comical, but I wouldn’t be happy if I found my old bike had been used to transport yabba and for the front door to come off its hinges at 5:00 am or something similar.

Yes, this is not necessary in all DLT offices. I have both bought bikes and sold bikes in various offices and the seller was never required to provide a certificate of residence, just copies of the passport and valid visa stamp, however, a certificate of residence was always necessary to register a bike in your name. This isn’t the case for all offices, for example, in Udon Thani, I gather it is necessary. This wasn’t the question, but you would think the buyer would have noticed that the extension expired in 2022 and he was to change the name before that, what would have happened if we had left the country? Or hadn’t just moved around the corner.

thanks, yeah .. I gave the full story as a warning. If i had to do this again I would take the buyer to the dlt and get it out of my name. I think 3 years is pushing it to return and start demanding photocopies at 8:00 am. Im sure there is a time limit which I could have quoted to him.

I think you are incorrect here. How about hen riding, was involved in an accident, and the police came knocking at my door.

I stopped riding over Covid and in Oct 2022, I sold my bikes, a versys and a CBR. A policeman wheeler dealer type from Udon snapped up both, I followed his instructions, I signed some transfer documents and gave him copies of all the relevant pages of my passport, as requested. Never even saw the guy, just his minions. I got them to sign a receipt and my home made declaration that the bike was no longer mine. Fast forward to February 2025 - we have built a house in the same village and have moved, this morning, one of the same minions shows up at my new house, didn’t call, just appeared - he drove down yesterday and couldn’t find us. The police guy had just sold the Versys and couldn’t transfer the bike. He took all the papers to the DLT, apparently I had signed something wrong and also understandably, my visa stamp is for 2022. The minion didn’t have a clue what he was asking about, couldn’t read English, I had to explain why it was knocked back by the DLT. I presume this is general practice amongst second hand dealers, to not transfer the bike to their name, but to sell the bike and paperwork and let the new owner do that. How long does (read, did) he legally have to transfer the bike? I was a little annoyed to have my morning coffee interrupted by some idiot who just gave me two blank forms - Im a little concerned as the bike has had my name on it for 3 years, who knows what it has been used for? Also, How long am I liable to provide documents? sure I can oblige all I can. My passport is being renewed in the UK, I didn’t take a copy of my current visa stamp before sending, I couldn’t help him with a copy of my visa stamp - but I’m not going to bend over backwards for the guy, I sold the bike 3 years ago! The police guy has been riding it and now sold on. Anyone?

Yeah everyone loves pizza, but did anyone tell you that Thai people like Thai food? 🙂 The biggest problems with pizza restaurants, and actually we have a wood fired place in a little village down the road from me. The ingredients are expensive, to run the ovens is expensive - as westerners, we don’t want to work our lives to come here and work 7 days a week. So “we” start a business, carry on with publicizing the business, get on everyone’s nerves on Facebook with the constant posts, very few people buy pizzas, it’s costly to heat the ovens up or buy the wood for little return, we start ploughing more money into the business, we get disillusioned and start taking holidays in bkk or Ko Chang and close the restaurant, next people visit during those times, and it’s closed. They vow never to return because you are unreliable, next thing, ovens are for sale on bkk bought and sold fb group. If you want something for your wife, then find something with low startup and overheads. This is where I have total respect for my wife, she has a trestle table, a tent and some fabric - she gets up at 4.00 am and sets up a market stall, stands in the morning heat until 10:00 - 1:00 time, breaks it all down, throws heavy crates of clothes on the truck and comes home. Most wives will be angered you suggest this to them, they want to control staff in an aircon instagram cafe. If you want to do something here, think about how you can utilize Thai people to do it. Some ideas work, specialist and niche concepts are good, but need work. But doing something that everyone else does, you might as well put your money in the bank and live off the interest.

What do you do in Texas? It seems, although not doesnt always follow - use your existing skills - Butchers and bakers do well here. You dont need to make big money every day, just enough. Whatever you do, like others, little startup cost, no rent, is the best. Again, clothes, my wife sells something that local people can't get hold of, she sells at local markets, maybe two or three times a week, the goods are imported second hand, her rent for the pitch is about 40-100B per market, and the profit is 250%. For fun, I also grow hydroponic vegetables, it's ok in the cold season - trouble is that everyone copies each other here, but luckily they dont continue past one season. You say Issan. its a very varied place, you have big cities, small provincial capital towns, even in a rural district you might have a rich village that is inhabited by the families of local government office workers, the next village might be filled with older people with little disposable income - there are some areas that are really poor, no infrastructure and and another area, maybe has a big river, for example, these can be very rich areas due to natural resources. I wish you all the best. Dont think about investing in a coffee shop.

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