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I took a gamble and watched The First Omen - worth a look, if you are a fan of the Omen movies. This is a prequel to Omen I.

The reason I clicked on the title is because I just came back from my building site, so this is a general observation - I spend a lot of time lifting the drill to level it when my Thai workers are drilling, they struggle to understand that they should be drilling at 90 degrees to the wall, otherwise when you put in the raw plug it does off at an angle and the thing you are trying to screw to the wall, goes off level. You cant use a drill .. neither can a lot of Thai workmen.

Does anyone really turn around like that and smack someone in the face without provocation? I think I might do that, but only after I have really had enough of someone - as per normal, maybe this is just a culmination of the manager being a prick over a period of time. You can see him prodding the guy when he's clearly talking to the security guard, looks like he's getting a telephone number as he has his phone in his hand? idk .. just saying, there is usually more to these than a 15 second video clip.

And two weeks before you arrived it was the Swiss. Now its the British. A nation doesnt produce the characteristics of a person, everyone is different. We all know the old one about selfish Germans, I have never met a German who set their alarm for sunrise to run down to the pool to put a towel on the sunloungers. Next week it will be someone else's turn, it will be the Russians in Phuket opening businesses, it will be some Danish guy for some reason or maybe the turn Americans renting a luxury villa and loud motorbikes .. I find it easier to just avoid joining the local pastime of racial labelling.

Thanks, I stand corrected - tmdb seems to now changed their categorization to returning series. I thought Colin Farrell was good, and I liked the edits and his narration, it reminded me of a George Pelliecanos book, but the concept of his group (sorry, trying to be purposely vague as to not spoil) was just too far fetched.

Sorry to disappoint, It was a one-off mini series. I thought it was a good detective story, with the old cinematic clip edits - until he .. at the end of e06 then I lost interest. If it’s a sci-fi mystery then I’m more into Outer Range which I feel has a The leftovers vibe although just half way through the first season.

It runs Android OS - not too sure if it's a straight up android or if it has restrictions, does it have google play store? If you want to get overseas content then you might want to buy a sub for a vpn, they can be more reliable than a free one from wherever, they will have an app to use the vpn and then download the tv stations own app. If you want to view YouTube, ad-free then use a VPN to select a country that doesnt allow monetization https://isthischannelmonetized.com/youtube-monetization-countries-list/ Yup, smart TVs collect data from your viewing habits and send them back to the manufacturer, who then sells them on to interested parties. It's called automatic content recognition. It's not just smart TV's - the android boxes collect data, apps, services that provide video content and media players all do the same.

yes, trakt.tv will do that for you. I have it sync'd to my media server, so if I download and watch something at home, it adds the tv / movie to my profile and suggests movies. I also use a thing called mdblist.com which I think syncs with trakt, this sends instructions to my media server to download video, I have it set to download the top 10 on Netflix or amazon. You can set up mdblist and use it manually - or maybe just get an rss feed from it.

He likes to promise and promote an idea, but there don't seem to be any results.

Tizen OS is difficult, you might find a lack of apps. If you go to settings and network, you could enter the home wifi credentials. I have a samsung Tizen TV, i dont use any apps on the TV, its really slow. It has an AIS app which allows the wife to watch all the Thai channels, but it's really laggy. Samsung won't help you, just get the Android box GUI up and use the scan function to find the input, which you already have by the sounds of things and then forget the Tizen function. Focus on your true box, add YouTube, the Thai channels should be there on the true app, what else do you want to do? Do you have a VPN and want BBC iplayer?

Binged (for me) over a few nights on @giddyup suggestion Under the bridge, a pretty interesting show focusing on the events around the murder of a Canadian school girl, based upon a true story. Cheers for the suggestion. Just started Sugar Some returning shows in the next couple months - BBCs The Outlaws on 31st May, The Boys on 13th June and Stuff the British stole later in June - Australian documentary series about all the good stuff we stole during the empire days and mostly never gave back.

This guy is awesome http://www.machomeservice.com You put emphasis on speaking directly with the tech, there is only one tech, the owner. He can speak a little English - but speaks clear Thai that you understand. He isnt afraid to give you a ball park quote (on the phone or LINE) which saves you a bit of time when you are shopping around. I have always had good luck with my apple computers, but have used him for the past 15 years when things go wrong. Well recommend.

I use a Huion tablet 1060 plus - I didn’t have the use or the money for a Wacom and this came recommended, I’m happy with it, have had it for 5 years. Sometimes the drivers need reinstalling but it’s ok for the money.

This has to be some of the best TV in years. West Oxfordshire District Council must be fuming every time a new season appears exposing their petty bureaucracy in every show. In the first season I thought Caleb was the star of the show, but I love everytime Charlie appears - watching him last night as Clarkeson was attempting to cut a branch with a chainsaw was a classic.

So .. should chipset fans run or only when under load. This is a server, so spends most of the time idling, which may be why it’s not running constantly. As I said it runs for a few seconds when booting, so demonstrates it works.

I’m not very good with hardware .. I build machines, connect everything up, test and replace cover. Last night one of my servers dropped a drive and I had to open the case. I noticed this fan isn’t working, just wondering what purpose it serves? It does spin for a couple of seconds when the machine is booting up but then stops. The heat sink that surrounds it is quite warm. CPU fan is working fine. Does anyone have any clues? The mobo is a MSI X570.

I can't focus in this heat wand I decided to rewatch James Caan, in Las Vegas, from the early 2000s. Kind of like a Baywatch set in the desert. I will never grow tired of watching Vanessa Marcil. Has this been mentioned before? Ripley I have never been a fan of noir - but watched the first episode last night, may be interesting .. idk.

TVs are smart because they havest the data - which is then sold. This may sound a bit tin foil hat but they have ACR (automated content recognition) which monitors your viewing habits - if your TV has voice commands, it may have microphones that monitor your room. This is why you can't find a dumb TV. My Samsung doesnt have to be connected to the internet to function, I didnt have the internet for a week or so when moving in to my current rental. It worked. Currently, its ethernet wired because I want to use "wake on LAN" function, but if I wanted I could quite easily put it on a separate VLAN and isolate it from the outside world.

as in China, every seller in our local market, about 15km from the center of Khon Kaen had a laminated qr or two tangling upon string ready to be scanned. Interestingly enough, the wife tried to buy a couple of doughnuts as we were leaving Thai Watsadu last week, Dunkin’ have a little portacabin shop in the carpark. Cash not accepted, scan only. The managment don’t want the trouble of collecting and banking cash, no need to trust the sole employee with cash - the truck just drops a few trays of doughnuts off in the morning, the shop runs itself - seems like an efficient business model. Agreed. Cash was king.

The OP is after "Hi-end" but then mentions high street brands. There are high end audio suppliers here, but the price is so inflated. I wanted some things and I contacted the manufacturer who informed me even tho' the kit is sold here, there was no Thai distributor but Singapore was the closest. I think serious audiophiles would purchase their equipment and import. I imported from the US, the import duty was lower than purchasing from SG or BKK. There was a hi-fi shop in my local big C, he had second hand gear from Japan, but the price was silly for really outdated tech. idk about anyone else, but if im going to spend anything over 500B, I dont want something with chips, dust and scratches on. There are warehouses in BKK, but the gear isn't cared for, its just pulled from a container and left on the floor. For my listening rig in the man cave I ended up with a pair of Andrew Jones Elac speakers, then I struggled to find a decent priced amp. Living here, you need a simple solution, big boxes on shelves and loads of cables all collect dust, and sometimes fail. I so wish I had bought a pair of integrated speakers as you did, I encourage the OP to do the same, the end result will be the same.

What was the guy thinking? He thought that the police had a similar purpose to those in a western country. I had trouble with my next-door neighbour, I have reasons to suspect at the start of the problem he went to the tessaban and dropped a few baht to take his side. Then the issue continued and he threatened me (he’s a bit of a nasty guy, he’s a loan shark, he’s already in league with the headman offering his financial assistance) we went to the police, not to report him but to just say, look if you have a problem, speak with my solicitor because we don’t want to deal with you / the issue. The police offered to sort the problem, up to me how much I could / would donate. It always crossed my mind that the police are just “guns for hire” once you start down the path of offering money to do their job then someone can just offers more cash than me and then you are the target.

No, I don't have time to sit around - The wife and I have to be on-site, babysitting the construction crew, we are just dreaming of moving in next month and just doing nothing but watching videos. I am really struggling this year, it seems that it is exceptionally hot, but I think I just forget from year to year.

@GammaGlobulin I think polished concrete looks great - the wife doesn't. My original idea was to have a polished concrete floor, in our new build, I contacted a member here who had got some local village builders to do his, and it looked great. We looked around for quotes, the place we are building is 200m sq, we have about 80m sq of open plan and we had issues - the guys who can do a perfect job tend to work in commercial, and they can get easy money doing large areas such as DIY superstores and garages. They have the space to use those propellor floats, and cover large areas = more money/day. A couple of renderers told us they could do it, but tilers who could also do it (by hand) warned about the cost of the epoxy. I'm told that a really bad polish looks really bad .. the epoxy is expensive, liable to hairline cracks, wear with office chairs and needs yearly care. In end we found a nice cheap porcelain tile that has a concrete look to it and im really happy, we are at 50% completion. We have pretty pricey cotton tiles in the bathroom, the same color, I think that if I were using cotton throughout then I might look to microcrete or something similar, but the house tiles were peanuts. I am also told that areas of concrete aren't aesthetically pleasing, as they have no breaks for the eye. I would beg to differ. I still have the dream. We still have a garage / workshop / store room to complete, 65m sq and had quotes of 20K THB labour plus materials, in comparison my tiler gave me a quote for 5K labour + materials - the cement would be roughly the same, but added the price epoxy needs to go on top. I'm told that epoxy goes cloudy in strong sunlight so you need to use some kind of other paint (we would use grey). Im always interested to hear others experience - I can't work it out because when you visit old village houses they all have floated concrete floors or painted with some kind of red rust paint, it should be cheap as chips and everyone should be able to do it.

I was just reading through the comments shaking my head. Yes, some girls are available - I found my wife when she was working in the Emporium. A lot of her friends, all the same, 20-somethings, all had boyfriends / tom boyfriends who would come and pick them up at closing time, or they had lazy husbands and kids in the villages. Just because a shop assistant smiles and giggles, it doesnt mean that they are single and up to date a foreigner - that being said, if you Thai is good, you look good, then go for it.

Thanks, and forget it .. the guy hasn't yet caught up with the digital age - Spend two mins clicking a renewal button on the email from Mister Prakhan, check that you are getting the correct excess, life insurance, etc included in the policy and then transfer from the bank or waste a trip to the nearest local vehicle testing place, then try and fathom if you are getting decent cover from a girl who sits there playing fb all day. I have only had to deal with M. Prakhan a couple of times, the customer sales reps are some of the best I have encountered in Thailand. I wanted to find a similar post, because these were the same kind of replies "it isn't costing you anything", "why are you so important" or inferring im trying to save a few baht - it's because I want to continue my business with Mr Prakhan and the insurance company because of good service. The insurance company already know the state of the car, they repaired it 9 months ago. lol .. that's exactly what the wife said. Understandably, the first thing they do is schedule a visit to take pictures of the car.