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recom273

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  1. Ahh yes, I now notice the .. still need help? contact us option. I followed the faq and it didn't suggest calling, it said send a report and we will contact you in 24 hours. I was trying to recall because I called and spoke to someone about a taxi booking in the past. I thought they may have cancelled the helpline. The easier option would have been to keep the phone line open for a period of time after delivery. I could have voice called the guy uptown the the time he dropped off - I messaged him to tell him where he was. GRAB replied in a follow up that they encourage their drivers to send a message when they dont deliver to the hands of the customer, but the guy just dumped and ran. Really annoying, when I have had deliveries outside the home, the riders have been really good and messaged me - to walk around a big Toyota dealership asking for my McDonalds pissed me off, when I got it, I didnt want to eat the cold muffin. First world problems.
  2. One problem I found .. you can’t contact the driver after he has dropped off your food. I was sitting at Toyota getting my car serviced, waiting for mcD breakfast, watching the little map. Then I saw it had been delivered .. to where? No way of contacting him. He ignored my request of a call on arrival, took the food to the post room where it sat for 30 mins as every employee denied even knowing what McDonalds was. No way to contact grab apart from an email two days later. Will try food panda next time I’m in this situation.
  3. If you are after a non-EU or US based provider, then I assume your after a more secure service. Maybe take a look at https://mullvad.net/en its one of the most trusted, in terms of security. They are based in Sweden, I'm not sure if that fits your non-EU requirement.
  4. Yeah, in some respects I’m lucky - in a sad way. Mum left when she was 3 years old, Dad, who raised died a few years before I met her. So she doesn’t have any responsibilities to the family. I don’t think I could function as the family bank. Her mum calls round the whole family asking for 100B for food, most of the time wife doesn’t pick up the phone and mum sends a message saying that she will never speak to her again .. the wife types back “fine by me” and we get. 3 months of peace. ????
  5. Actually the original comment made me chuckle, I had an experience like this the first time of going back to the village. They rented a truck and driver from a cousin at some extortionate rate and we pushed the trolley around Big C and they bought so much stuff that they would never usually buy, they made a massive feast and what seemed like half the village appeared from no where and ate it all over the next 24 hours. I was well and truly rinsed. I actually took 20K out of the bank, and told the gf that I left the ATM at home. I saw it as an initiation ceremony, it ended by the gf telling her family to GTF, and 15+ years later we are still together, happily married (for the most part). I would say it's a necessary experiment, just keep your head on swivel and your eyes wide open. Write off the money spent over the weekend and use the time to see wether or not you are being played and if you can become part of the family unit. I found I couldn't which is why we live 50km away from them and the MIL knows the answer when she calls to catch 100B to buy rice.
  6. I understand what you mean about trying a keyboard, they have physical stockists https://keychronthailand.com/pages/where-to-buy I bought mine in a pre order and was quite a bit cheaper. I was always under the impression that the colour keys used on all these mechanical keyboards were made by the same manufacturers. Not too sure about the hot swap feature, seems a bit of a gimmick. People pay a lot more for mechanical keyboards, these seem reasonably priced - I had a couple of Logitech keyboards like a k380, that would always stop working with dust and crumbs under the keys, I took a gamble on this company. The mechanical is a little high and took a little getting used to, but after that - it’s solid.
  7. I have a keychron mechanical keyboard, I really like it. I can connect it to up to 3 devices. They do a 10 key version. https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k10-wireless-mechanical-keyboard If you can’t wait so long, it might be an alternative.
  8. I don't like to get into these discussions, however, just to stand with you. The difference between 128 / 320 CBR / FLAC is very noticable. I never even used 128 back in the day, I would rather have had less albums than use low bitrate. It sounded like a cat inside tin can. I now stream FLAC from a Navidrome server (no transcoding) to my truck, sometimes the power goes at home and I'm forced to listen to 320 CBR stored on my phone, the difference is clear even on my standard, but pretty decent Toyota factory head unit.
  9. Not too sure of your angle .. I bought land for my wife to build a house in the headman's village. The guy has always got his hand out collecting for some thing or another - a stage for a concert or some Loy kratong event, all involve large speakers that vibrate the windows until 2.00 am. I pay for the water I take from the village water supply, even tho I had to buy my own pipes, I pay my subs for the garbage collection. Not too sure why I would pay him for anything else, the guy is paid by the government.
  10. He's a paid public servant. The headman is always on the take and on the make. You decide wether or not he deserves a drink or not, wether you want to buy into the corrupt system. Will you need his assistance in the future?
  11. I had read reports on another app that you had to go to the center and watch the video, so I was glad to read your post. This is one of the most revolutionary things introduced by the DLT over covid - along with the online queuing system. I hope they never return to the old method of making us waste a few of hours sitting in a room while locals play on their phone. I renewed mine the other month, not in Phuket, but I was out within 30 mins, great!
  12. Yes, download the iTunes Store on your apple device and you can select and purchase, you can then stream to your tv - you can install Apple TV app on your android tv or whatever, you don’t necessarily need an Apple TV box connected to your TV.
  13. Perhaps he doesn't want the job. We are building and face issues like this all the time. You didn't say where you were, but like, if he is busy then he's turning down good paying work to do your job then its understandable. I got a guy atm, he gave me a price and I asked him how he got to that, he said, 7 days @ 2000B a day for his crew of 4 = 14K. I also thought it would take 7 days, the bonus is, if they work harder, which they are, they will finish in 5-6 days, and they get the bonus. He's a great guy and a great team, but it took a lot of time and luck to find him. Other guys that came asked for 60K for the same work, a few others came and asked for 10-15K but with less guys, and they couldn't even read the plan, which is a big problem here, builders that cant read a plan .. jeez. If they were laying blocks it would be 80B/ m sqr, or thereabouts, render is 90-100B / m sq but you couldn't expect that on four rows of bricks. q-con are 36B each, a bag of cement 150B. I would look for a guy on day rate. 500 for a tradesman, 400 for a laborer, 1000B for the boss who supplies lunch and fuel. Thai builders are obsessed with "Mao" or price work. I used to do price work on big sites in London, it was reserved for the best guys after proving that they could do a good job on day rate. It would be an opportunity for good workers were rewarded with more money in a short time by working harder for long hours because the client wanted the job done fast. In Thailand, they think it's a right, a way to charge more for less work. Apparently, the work will be better if its on price, on day rate its slow and not good quality (not my words)
  14. I have a feeling you have posted on this subject before. Have you an apple device or tv capable of loading Apple TV(+) app? I don’t know if you get movies if you subscribe to the monthly service, but you can certainly rent movie titles for 129B, once “rented” you have 30 days to watch them, but once you start a movie, then it’s 48 hours to finish. If you have a vpn, then you may be able to subscribe to Hulu, that’s $7 a month, but not available in Thailand, hence the need for a VPN. Both offer free trials from 1-3 months. If you get bored of Netflix, there is nothing stopping you from cancelling, and hopping to another service for a while, as suggested, HBOgo, Disney+ - if you have a vpn then you can still access bbc iplayer, usually tv shows but you can find some movies, SBS has some good older movies for free .. https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movies - if you use a vpn to access a legal but georestricted site, is it still legal?
  15. Must have felt like 3 hours!
  16. A FYI for those who use pirate streaming services that seem to be popular. https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2019/05/malware-illegal-video-streaming-apps-what-know This is a warning, from a government source, so to be taken with a pinch of salt, but it is a real threat. There are safer ways to get your content than visiting these sites or installing their apps - subscribe to a IPTV service, download torrent files. Stremio is considered pretty safe, and also the torrent steaming plug-in on KODI is a good source.
  17. I wish it was 80-90 mins - The wife likes to watch a movie on a Sunday night, we have watched a few things recently - Fast X being one of them, I think John Wick 3 (which I must admit, I like the different fight scenes) every one of them, more than 3 hours! That's almost half a working day!
  18. It seems you have omitted the rest of the article explaining how torrents work, it’s not a warning anti-torrent article. https://www.lifewire.com/torrent-file-2622839 Torrents as a protocol are not inherently dangerous, The video files that others are talking about are not executable files, so the chances of a video file containing a bad actor are very slim. If you read further into the article it specifies mp4 files, in any event you would need to run a process manually, it wouldn’t be a scene from Mr. Robot, where a video is played opening a back door to a hacker. However, that being said, what concerns me is the light hearted way that people recommend torrents on forums to people who may not be totally computer savvy. You are downloading an application that automatically opens ports within your firewall to the outside world which can be exploited. Maybe you have your crypto wallet, financial details, a backup and details of an encryption file on your computer, bad network and security practices are far more dangerous than the possible threat from a movie file.
  19. I just found this https://my.racknerd.com/index.php?rp=/store/4th-of-july-2023 $11 a year, they seem to have offers for anything .. for 35B per month.
  20. I thought the first scene was awesome .. tbf, I don't remember the first two seasons, it's not the thing I watch for the deep storyline, the fight scenes remind me of updated shaw bros. I don't think you will be disappointed. Hijack is going down well. It's hard to get my wife to sit and watch a series, she recognizes Idris Elba and its got Thai subtitles, although maybe a little slow going, a winner all-round.
  21. I admire the effectiveness of the police, assuming the woman made a return journey to work from Monday to Friday. It took them nearly 6 months of close monitoring, using an ANPR system to catch a woman with fake red plate, Kor Kai 8888. Great work guys!
  22. https://mega.io However, if you do a bit of sharing then it might be an idea to set up your own ebook server on a small low powered computer like a raspberry pi. I guess you know calibre, there is another app called calibre-web which is a web GUI for your calibre library, both my parents have access, they send me requests and I grab them, put them in my calibre library, then they download them straight to their kindles at their leisure.
  23. That's balls, yup, only the first two have English subs, there are also 3 offshoots of it too - all without English subs. I thought I would start the series as I saw notifications for S05 and I remembered your recommendation - it didnt cross my mind that they didnt have subs. Same as Line in the sand, its now got an English name "The Cops" and no subs available yet. Unknowns is a bit slow, more of a drama than action, but still interesting. This starts this week sometime.
  24. I saw that Line In the sand is back for a second season, but no English subs, so started another Israeli drama, unknowns which looks ok, but lacking in guns and drugs. I think @Mutt Daeng mentioned Mocro Mafia a long time ago but I never got around to checking it, now in a new fifth season. It can make up the drugs and gang quota.
  25. Of course he drowned, some bastard chopped his hands off!
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