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recom273

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  1. Also think about value for money and quality of life linked to general peace and quiet. Rental in BKK - 5000B for a two bed/living room/kitchen and bathroom on the balcony shoebox. Was OK for a while. Rental in Hat Yai - 5000B for a two bed townhouse, new build, was great, nice neighbors until for the last 6 years - a loan shark and his gang, who walked in and stole the wifes bag, then after they moved on a gang of yabba dealers partying all night, guns were drawn outside the house with a rival gang, then a tobacco smuggling ring whose deliveries would show up all times of the night. Life in a Khon Kaen village - Rent 5500B temporary rental while we build - 200m sq house in 1 rai of land, neighbor who isn't there most of the time, vegetable plot and hydroponic salad greenhouses makes enough to pay the rent in the cold season, far enough from the temple and headman's speaker system. We never saw the need for a truck until we moved out here, but it was a good purchase, the wife made the downpayment with her buisness savings and makes it work enough to pay the installments, I pay 2500B/month for petrol. We don't need to go into town so much but we make our own indian food, pizza, bacon, muffins and crumpets. Mango trees in the garden. Rice is pretty much free, multiple people give us 10kg as a gifts, which is free to mill, We cook burgers. Japanese curry / dishes, Pasta and salad at least once a week - We keep Guinea fowl and spend time hunting down the eggs. KKC is only 20 mins away. If its the right place for you, then its the right place - Saying that, I couldn't live more than 15-20km from town - the guys that live out on the borders of Udon are brave, I wouldn't want to waste an afternoon doing the Makro run.
  2. I use infuse on the Apple TV, it has the same feature as you mention with VLC - I already have Thai as my main subtitle, and English as secondary. It just searches opensubtitles and adds them to the menu as you are playing. Automatic subtitles make life so easy.
  3. nickserv is an IRC command. IRC is internet relay chat - although there are some modern day benefits, there aren't many uses for IRC these days. If you need to use IRC then you know about IRC, its clunky and cumbersome. Every time I need to use it, I have to relearn the commands and often I mess up and get banned from the server - its a decentralized chat, servers are hosted on an organizations server and the chat logs are kept by the organization. It's good for anonymity, unless the server is compromised. It's used by tin foil hat nerds, digital pirates and probably kiddie fiddlers, people who have something to hide. https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat Thunderbird also has XMPP. I remember using this back in the day, I think ICQ, yahoo, Windows live, google talk all use XMPP. Anyone else use IRC? for what?
  4. They have had a shake up down there recently, there would be a post in the fb groups if there was any major changes, sounds like you caught someone on a bad day. I live in Khon Kaen and have a non-o based on marriage, currently on my second, and I did my last after they changed the staff out. Every application in the two offices I have used required a bank statement on the day of application. Maybe you upset them from the start. Never a new photo on the TM7 application form, I did 20x a few years ago and that will be enough for 10 years, unless I lose them again. Certainly not photos with the wife in, she's not applying for the visa. Never been asked for my wifes bank statement or a yellow house book. 4x photos is sufficient (one infront of the house number, one infront of front door, one in kitchen, one on sofa) I have seen some people posing with their wedding certificate which I find ridiculous. They did ask my wife for some small things - the first house page of the rental shouldn't be signed by the owner, just the page with the owners name - that needed to be whitened out and copied again, I always supply them with a copy of every stamped page of my passport as fb posts have suggested they may need them, its easier to just scan, keep in on file and print them at home than argue and walk to the copy machine. I am not doubting your post, but it's really strange - I used to use Hat Yai and they are nightmares, you would expect to write off a full day, with a couple of extra documents from the landlord and an 20 questions interrogation from an immigration officer. I thought KKC was really good, down at the bank at 8.00 am, immigration by 10:00, back home before 12:00. The whole thing is (was) a formality, pass them the papers, oblige them with a couple of visits to the copy machine and smile, I don't need to open my mouth, send the wife up the stairs in a month to pick up the stamp.
  5. I am slowly setting up an automated garden irrigation system in my new build, so far, even though the house isn't finished I have a "drip" sprinkler under a planted hedge and want to setup a sprinkler system before I lay the lawn but already I can see that there is not enough water pressure and I will need to put a pump somewhere in the build. Could anyone point me in the direction of a good / reliable / cheap pump - Are on demand or constant pressure pumps available here? I saw a small 1KW pump which looks like it could do the job, not too sure where to place it in the system, there are solenoid valves and power supplied to every zone, along with smart relays, so I could in effect set up an automation to switch the pump on at the same time of opening a valve or write a flow to to check if the pump is running before releasing the solenoid. I would love to see some other small / DIY setups.
  6. I believe SCCE have / were advertising a course and are able to offer a year visa. 087 631 7880
  7. Yeah, that’s pretty standard wondershare MO, loads of processes running, some difficult to remove. I am not really familiar with home video encoding, however, from what I can see, you will notice a difference - if you were reencoding a tv broadcast, either 720 or 1080 to 720 then you would be looking at a bitrate of around 3500kbps. For a 1080 encode you wouldn’t encode less than 5000kbps, you need to adjust the slider to a higher number, to give a bitrate of 5,000-10,000kbps. Yes, social media rencodes look pretty horrid, streaming platforms host their own files - is that what you mean? Does your camera have manual setting? Whereby you adjust the aperture and frame rate rather than using preset. I used filmic pro on my iPhone in the past and it gave me this flexibility. I’m not much of a videographer, but if you are looking for realistic output, I think you would go for 30 frames, 24 for a cinematic feel, if you were shooting to use the footage for slow-mo, then you shoot at high frame rates, 60 or 120, right? Are you using a professional editing suite yet? Adobe Premiere? I use Final Cut Pro on a Mac, and it has decent output presets, that would encode on export.
  8. I was recommended Hierro a Spanish-French production from 2019, set in the Canaries, it reminds me of Plastic Sea, a whodunnit - one initial suspect, who it will probably turn out to be innocent, multiple characters who could all be suspects, cool scenery. All write ups on imdb are positive. Just started series one. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8337662/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
  9. Yes, it’s malware, these apps used to load out your inbox but I there is more money to be made by silently collecting your data these days. With regard to your quality, in the video tab, what have you set the bit rate slider to? Or are you using abr? What target bitrate do the tutorials suggest? If you are noticing a drop in quality, it may be down to this setting. Another app you should use in conjunction with handbrake is mediainfo, you can check the bitrate and other facts and refer to them if you notice any issues, also get the info of your successes for future reference. Have you tried setting chapter markers or editing a 30 second clip and then encoding one chapter or the short clip and experimenting. Saves a lot of time.
  10. Rich for the day, until that 500B is spent.
  11. I think this means it hasn’t got onboard graphics or graphics integrated into the CPU, so if you remove and sell the graphics card as suggested, you will need to replace it with something.
  12. I don’t know enough about graphics cards, I always buy onboard, but the 1050ti seems to be purchased for 3K now. Hardly worth removing and selling. The mobo is 1500B new. I don’t think it’s worth 10K, is it?
  13. Top.Boy.S05.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.Atmos.H.264-LLL
  14. It's easier and cheaper to make a curry base mix from a recipe on YouTube .. I made a load and froze the packs, along with tomato paste and ginger and garlic. I really miss the Chinese take away curry and made a load of that too. I eat that once a week, without fail.
  15. @Ben Zioner @lopburi3 That's a load of old rubbish, I'm not having a word of it, everyone knows you need one of these.
  16. I believe that's an over exaggeration, I thought it was about a ratio of 1.5-2 to 1, even that is wasteful enough. I really need a whole house RO system, our only water solution is very saline and expect problems within a year, so am interested in hearing your comment. What did you do with the waste water, you could fill tanks and use it to water the lawn? Also, could I ask the price? How about the service, were you not warned that its a very wasteful process and perhaps you wouldn't need it? (this is the issue I'm having, just dropping into random water purifier shop "yes, sir, you need a RO system - how much? and the specs? - yes, very expensive sir" - like no facts. These are the same kind of shops that have sold particle filters to locals, there's very little in the water in the way of suspended solids and extra chemicals, the problem is the salinity.
  17. I think you need to ride a bike in the UK for 2 years and take a further test after passing the A2 test to have the entitlement to exchange your license here. I was just checking, the rules seems mad in the UK, it was much easier in the old day. Not that has any relevance to the OP, he has doobie squat, was just looking out of interest.
  18. That’s just you! imagine how many takes it must have taken an hour before everyone had a straight face and get that picture.
  19. Already half way through the fifth series of Top Boy
  20. No .. he can’t get a Thai bike license with this license, that’s just a basic entitlement that allows you to ride bikes up to 50cc, or a moped, however, some people might have been able to convert it to a Thai license, with a bit of luck. He needs a license with an “A” prefix - I am unsure wether he can exchange an A1 or A2 for a Thai license, but for A riders, they can ride unrestricted.
  21. Some truly saddening pics, I guess by the fact that they are straddling the bays that they know full well what they are doing and think that this is some kind of excuse for their behavior. I am not disabled but have needed to use the parking from time to time. I try to park close to the store, leaving the bays free for people who need them more than I but if I do have to use them I'm really happy I have the opportunity to, I just need to explain to the security guard why and its never an issue, I think in the UK I would need a disabled sticker in my car. I also think that ignorant people parking in disabled bays is also an issue in the UK, its not exclusive to Thailand. One time I tried to use the bays at KK dental hospital and there was a mini van waiting for a VIP party blocking the bays, he wouldn't move even when the security guard asked him, his reply was, its for people who cant walk, this guy is too young. I was behind the wheel, so i'm confused how he could assess my needs. I don't have to use the bays at Makro as there are always bays close to the shop that are free, but I appreciate that they are secure and guarded, Big C doesnt offer any facilities.
  22. I had a Big C dome tent, and I used it a few times, motorbike camping in Malaysia. I picked up a few bits of nature hike kit and before Covid upgraded a lot of my kit, the tent being one thing. I'm not really into the technical aspects of tents, it had some good reviews, was readily available, fitted the purpose.
  23. I have a nature hike one I will sell you, never used.
  24. Its big news, Sorayuth just mentioned it on the weekend news.
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