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Nope .. this has been predicted on a website that can’t be mentioned here for a while, PT to team up with Prawit, getting rid of Phrayut. I would love to see Thai people rise up and make a forceful protest that changes something, but I really don’t see it. Active protesters are such a minority here, but let’s wait and see.

Prawit for the PM job .. Thai people will do nothing. Not the result that I want to see, but I think this was planned all along.

I am going through this at the moment .. tradesmen in general have no respect for others work and don't ask. I know this is a small issue, but related. I put up a 3x3 metal post outside my wall, the power crosses the road from a PEA pole across the road to the 3x3. When the contractor was up the post installing the insulators, I got him to put a conduit for the internet fibre, and a conduit and boxes for CCTV cameras on the side of the post. He slung up some temporary power, terminating in a box on the post. He took all afternoon, but he built footings out of rebar and cemented the post in, did a good job, considering it was just a stop-gap job to keep him busy. Roll on 6 months, the electrical contractor comes to install the permanent mains, we went out to get some supplies, 15 mins tops. When I returned they had needlessly taken all the conduit and CCTV mounts down. Why? "Well, there was nothing in it" .. that's because we only just run the underground conduits in yesterday, do you remember doing it? But not only that, they had thrown the "C" clips and screws into the neighbors hedge. They got told to re-instate everything. In the end I had 2 clips holding each conduit, and a plastic bag of clips in the tall grass next to the post. They shot themselves in the foot, we planned all the installation with him, he spent time and money coming site, discussing the job on two occasions - then when it came to run the mains as we had a digger onsite. He turned up 2 days late, left early, "oh, I have another job" leaving some technical college kids to do the job. After this display he got told to do one, and we got another contractor.

Expat myth - if the landlord owns over 5 properties, he can only charge 1+1 as a security deposit. If he is the owner of less than 5 properties, then he can charge whatever he feels appropriate, you can agree or walk away.

You can study at Chula, online. https://www.arts.chula.ac.th/CTFL/intensivethai/ I’m guessing you could even start in the UK and then come here to finish. I learned at UTL and AUA - the guys who I knew who were at Chula were way more advanced in a shorter time than myself and my colleagues, they worked hard tho’ Incidentally you can watch the lower level ALG lessons from AUA on YouTube, it’s interesting.

I’m quite enjoying Shrinking, I like the interaction between all the characters. I’m sure it won’t appeal to all. Just 30 mins at the end of the day is good.

Yes - I know people who also use a dns service https://dns4me.net/ Yes, it doesn’t have a detrimental effect on your speed, their servers are a little slower but you won’t notice the difference. It’s just resolving the DNS query in a different location. The reason why I don’t use it, is because it’s system wide, you need to config your router. It’s cheaper than a VPN and you can get a free months trial, no need to even give your credit card.

@xylophone I use PIA without any issues for a year or more. One thing that may help you - I use firefox, just for accessing iplayer. I have it set to clear cookies every time I close it. PIA have a server for streaming UK content which they guarantee works, and it does, but hey had a three days of downtime when something changed and they needed to reconfigure, during this time they were efficient at replying to enquiries.

Weren't you monitoring it? I'm not one to talk about this either, you give a simple task and expect it to be done "surely they cant f this up?, can they?" - yes, they can.

As the process has carried on, I think this was just a game or an experiment to him. I think he knew the result, even if he hadn't been in possession of the shares, it would have been something else. He knew it all along. The past two weeks, traveling the country to whip up a protest if denied the opportunity. Now it's all over, what will people do? I would love to be proved wrong, but they will just roll over and accept the decision of the people calling the shots.

Not too sure what zero knowledge is .. all cloud companies are going to mine your data, that’s why they are free. If you want privacy then you need to setup your own, then there is nextcloud, https://nextcloud.com which is an open-source alternative. You could do this on a vps or even a small computer of your own at a remote location or on your home network. I run a nextcloud server at home, I just sync folders like Dropbox, I can access files remotely, for example documents for immigration, they have a whole suite of phone apps. I don’t pay too much attention to the development but I now see they do have companies offering managed servers, you can get 1GB free here https://www.hosting.de/nextcloud/managed-nextcloud/

I have a little folder of Chinese kid giving me the finger from my online classes. I just laugh, sometimes I send them to the parents on WeChat.

I once saw a documentary, it was following an incident in the west when a kid got a foot and rubber boot dragged into the escalator. It explained how it happened, it was actually not easy to replicate. Maybe an elevator engineer can explain, The bottom line was, there is a yellow line on the side, keep your feet away from that area, when your kids are using the escalator - control your kids, it’s not a play ground. The owner of that slipper must have not understood he needed to lift his foot to step off the machine. Pure hype.

I used a place in Bangkok. Just send the .stl files and they return the items. https://www.maliev.com I did some home automation projects, and realised I had spent the price of half a printer. So I bought my own. If it’s small, maybe someone here can help? The materials, hobbiest time, etc are cheap, but commercial printing isn’t.

Agreed, I think the best lunchtime chicken is in HY Nai, late afternoon - Tiger Temple Market. In the evening I was surprised how busy that stall under the railway flyover / not far from the stadium. Having spent over a decade in HY now living in Issan, not all fried chicken is equal. If you live in HY, you have your favorite places, you know which places are open at different times of day, some places are just too popular and the competition to grab the chicken as it comes from the wok is brutal. The chickens in the south have just about the right fat content, there are a couple of stalls up here proclaiming to be "Hat Yai Chicken" they cannot replicate the texture of the chicken or get the garlic / pepper ratio right or the coating. There are a couple of places in BKK that manage it. Just as "Gai Yang Khao Suan Kwan" cannot be replicated in the south, the free range chicken comes from a number of farms in the area, its has little fat content, the skin turns super crispy, chicken isn't just chicken. So, No. its not.

Totally agree, but maybe the road to democracy may be a bit longer in Thailands case - I think I recall reading somewhere that it may need a two or three step strategy. One of those steps was for Prawit. It can only be a good thing if that step was skipped.

As I understand it, 6E is not only related to speed. It does have lower latency, idk, maybe benefiting gamers (but then who would be gaming on a wifi connection). 6E offers a better channel choice in areas of high congestion, 6GHz has a greater range, it also uses WPA3 security. If you are in a high traffic area, with lots of different networks, with a greater chance of someone trying to hack into your network, then I think, if available a $199 router is pretty good value and a worthwhile upgrade. Just out of interest, what phone uses 6E?

Didn’t see that coming, not. It’s been planned for the past year.

Did you watch the news yesterday? The debate was primarily about Article 112.

Take a look at the Russian Facebook equivalent .. https://vk.com - It's just a social media platform, so I presume safe to post. Within the site there are of groups for ESL / English learners where material is shared - the IP laws in Russia are pretty slack, so stuff is generally uploaded without fear of prosecution or take-downs. You can search with keywords like "books" or "English books" "ESL" etc and find the right groups. Also, don't use your google credentials to log in to unfamiliar sites, unless you are really sure - I heard of a couple of phishing tools (ahem) that use fake google login - take a look at evil twin attacks like this https://github.com/kleo/evilportals (this is for a free wifi login) but there are similar for web site logins.

They certainly have a great selection of ugly black boxes with an excessive number of aerials - invade say it’s 60GHz but all the 6E routers I saw have E in the product code - netgear seem to be XE. https://www.howtogeek.com/797523/best-wi-fi-6e-router/ I don’t doubt you, but take a look. 20 000THB is a lot of router, I wonder what actual benefits a 6E will bring, I’m happy with my unifi wifi6 APs and a decent router.

Wondershare used to have some shady practices - HB is fine. If you have a Mac, then FCP is pretty straightforward after watching enough video tutorials, but like adobe premiere, it's can be a pro-tool. (if you have a Mac) iMovie is already installed on your Mac and even easier, just edit your video and then clicking share will give you an option on quality / compressor / resolution. Easy.

I use handbrake on a daily basis, but I dont use it to compress home video. It's the standard open source, free app - nothing to fault it. There is no need to look at any paid app, some of the "free" ones are a bit suspect tbh. What are you using to edit your video? Your editing suite will usually do the legwork for you. I use finalcut pro occasionally, and that's pretty intuitive, it gives approx file sizes and time to render when you export, no need to compress further with HB.

Can you buy a 6E router in Thailand? It took quite a while to get Wifi6 routers, now 6E.

I think that's OK, I only heard of an original Honda keyless prices, which I think are a lot more - Are aftermarket keys reliable?