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After years of using services, such as google, dropbox, online cloud storage for your CCTV .. it amazes me that people still want to trust "free" pirate TV streaming apps. An alarming number of the free VPN services and free ad-blockers are owned and controlled by Chinese companies. Traditionally, the video streamers are Russian, due to lack of IP enforcement. There is no such thing as a free lunch, these services exist for a reason. Some are more clandestine and invasive than others, some are just mining your online habits, others you give access to your home network, the same network you are doing your financial management with. There are safer ways to get your viewing content, although I dont use it, KODI has a plug-in that streams torrent content, that seems quite popular with AN users. I don't particularly care either how people manage their online security, maybe im a little more concerned than others, but users should be aware, free isn't always free.

I think the golden years were pre-taksin. For example, does anyone remember visa runs and border bounces without leaving home? Who needed dodgy retirement agencies then. Back in those days you could party all night, everywhere. MF can’t do much worse to effect expats than the last PMs tenure. I don’t see it as just visa related, or whatever, but the economy certainly need needs a boost. Theres also a lot of things that need changing, not least the mentality of the nation before things improve or change radically.

It’s usually a year minimum contract - Do you really need a specific service? I just tell 3BB that I don’t want their free router, they mumbled, and the fitters took it back with them. AIS is a hit different as they seem to offer packages where you rent a mesh system.

Easiest, but not the best as you create a double NAT - maybe for some people who have a cctv system or use torrents - Putting the GPON into bridge mode is as simple as calling up 3BB, they can do it remotely or send an engineer and assist you on where to put you PPoE credentials, if required. Double protection from hackers? It takes about 3 mins to hack your wifi - why anyone else would want to get into your secondary router? 3BB provide a letter when you first sign up, they send the credentials and then the router arrives later. The technicians ask for the letter and enter the details. A little while ago they stopped giving the details verbally from the helpline, but there is a delay of maybe upto a day before they send via sms. The girl mumbled something about security, which is fair enough, but annoying if you are looking for that first letter they sent 15 years ago.

3BB offer a ONT - you connect your router, enter you PPoE credentials, and the local area VLAN and you are away.

Guessing he uses it as surge protection, which isn’t quite correct, but whatever. Actually, putting a monitor on a UPS is not bad, I need to do it. I have a nice rack mount UPS that will run a couple of servers for an hour and a bit, but not my desktop and monitor - so when the power goes, I can’t shut down the servers, I need to connect a laptop to the switch. Lol.

Fatal Attraction lasted 2 episodes before I gave it up. Just started on this

Are your forks leaking? You just need a service / rebuild - if you trust the garage, I think that’s an OK price, I think I have paid that before. I blew a seal before, I was in Laos, we did a temporary fix and I limped back home and my local trusted bike shop serviced both, for about this price. The chain, I would buy an EK chain or similar and get the garage to fit it, KTM aren’t going to make a chain for you, they will just buy from a distributor and put it on for you. You can search for Magnum, they are the Thai distributor for EK. The rear brake does not have enough info to give an opinion.

Oh, wife just got off a call to a friend in the south - The democrats were paying 1000B per vote in Songkhla. The friend was bemoaning southerners reluctancy to change from the democrats, as MF would offer a better manifesto for all. Then the wife asked "So did you vote for Gor Gai (MF)". "Oh, no, I wanted my 1000B" she replied.

In our small Issan village the first people to stump up were Auntins crew, they paid per person to attend a rally at the temple, I forget the price, next came Phua Thai - they were offering 300B per household to attend a rally (to say rally, it was a couple of people showing a video of a big provincial rally). I dont know the ins and outs, but we live in a rental and we don't have the tabian baan, the owner went and took the 300B so "we" didn't go and didn't collect the payment. Then yesterday, the wife went to the voting station at the temple with a friend and voted for PT. I asked did she collect her payment, she asked her friend if she could get her tickle, but had been told that the landlord had collected already our fee (300B) for the house. The friend knew of a local person who was in charge of distributing the pot. It's not a case of someone standing outside the door and handing out brown notes. I don't think MF were interested in wasting any money, I never heard they they were offering anything in our area. It was foregone that PT would get all the votes in our area. I don't even think it was necessary for PT to put their hands in their pockets, the hate for Prayut is so deep and voting red is is engrained that they would have probably won anyway.

I guess we all have a different experience, I moved from True to AIS, because True customer service is really bad. As mentioned, DTAC is soon to become True. So you may be jumping from the frying pan to the fire.

Mayans final season starts May 24.

This thread is totally derailed, so may aswell continue. KKU Dental Hospital is amazing, for about a year now I have been in a program to address some issues that have been neglecting for years now. The waiting times are quite long, but i think it’s worth it. The appointment system is a bit bewildering, but the dental students knowledgeable and understanding. (To say they are students is a bit loose, in the specialist clinics it’s post graduates and the lecturers who do the work). The new wing where they do the general work and the special clinic are a clinical environment, the lower floor isnt so high tech but ok. The dentists usually speak good English, they will always try to speak Thai with my wife which is mildly annoying, but the cancellation by the dentist was most unusual. Pricing is very transparent and clear, you pay something like 50B to use the facilities and they tell you the price at the start of treatment programme (not when you arrive or surprise you when you go to leave) - for example, my first visit to the general clinic, he wanted me to go for x-rays, he asked if I could walk across the road for x-rays and said it would be around 500B, am I OK with that? I am never upset when I am presented with the bill, they even asked if I wanted to be prescribed some I paracetamol, I had none at home so accepted, it was cheaper than 7-11 ???? . In comparison to RAM hospital that once sent me home with a pack to change dressings consisting of things that I could have bought in any pharmacy at a small fraction of the price. Some guys on Facebook talk of rough treatment at KKU, but on the whole for me, can’t praise them enough. This isn’t the first time I have tried to use a uni dental clinic and the only info I could get from the hospital reception was that it was only evenings and I heard it was difficult to attend because you had to arrive early and join the queue with a possibility of not being seen, at KKU it’s certainly not the case.

I think if you move out of BKK or any tourist destination, I think the English proficiency of doctors in private hospitals is pretty low. It may be that they lack practice, confidence and enthusiasm. Yes, they are required to pass some kind of test but the level isn't that high, attending class and improving their ability is low on the list in comparison to their other studies. Some doctors speak English for their own personal development, others need to take a TOEIC or similar because it's demanded by an overseas university, but being Thailand, there always seems a work around for the basic Thailand qualification. I don't have any experiences in Bangkok Hospital, but I know a lot of the specialists move between hospitals, and agree, English ability isn't that great. I had a appointment cancelled the other week at Khon Kaen Uni Dental Clinic, the reason was, the guy didn't feel comfortable speaking English .. he was only pulling one tooth out, we could have spoken in Thai if he wanted. The whole point of the clinic is for practical experience, so the mature students are exposed to all situations before they enter the field, this went over this guys head.

Good call, I love this show. I was dragged screaming to musicals by my parents when I was a kid - I hate everything about them. Schmigadoon is just half an hour of nice TV, No gangs, no drugs, no guns, no police, no murder mystery. I haven't seen the second series yet, but the first was quite enchanting really simple and an update on a theme, I thought Apple did well here.

Despite getting rough reviews here, I thought the first two were interesting, I think the story has yet to reveal itself, we have seen Common as the judiciary for 60 seconds, I’m pretty sure we will see him more as the plot expands. E03 just appeared - I might just put it on to pass a wet afternoon.

He was rather silly (and lazy) then - it’s not a problem to get a work permit for ASEAN workers. afaik the penalty for illegally employing westerners was increased quite substantially a long while back.

Then this is something that Thailand could be a leader in, there’s always plenty of waste flip flops on the tide line, plenty of marine plastic. I wonder if we could avoid the step of dumping it in the sea first, and just use plastic bottles.

Yes, it changed over 6-12 months ago (as far as I can tell, because that's the gap when I did my bike renew and car test). No need to go to DLT to request a certificate.

No, you cant watch video, you plug in a data cable into your phone (although there are bluetooth adaptors, they have a tendency to be unreliable) Then a limited number of apps become available on your cars touchscreen (for your own safety) Basically, Maps / Google maps / Waze, spotify / Apple Music / some other music apps are CarPlay enabled, Messages (SMS) / LINE / Telegram - you can get your messages read out to you, you can dictate / send and Calendar, I think that's about it, although you can do a fair bit of funky stuff with shortcuts. It's rather annoying, because you cant use Soundcloud app, and YouTube. I understand what you are saying, but I dont think there is the ability to add additional headrest panels into the system, it's quite primitive in some respects. The phones screen becomes inoperable, but you just need to confirm you are not moving to use it. The wife has android, she uses spotify / google maps - I found it a bit tricky to find an android data cable, a lot of the cheaper ones are just charging cables, fwiw.

Where are you? This used to be the way in Hat Yai, so I rode there to get the letter and they had changed the procedure, I didn’t renew my license because of Covid and the non-Thai online application then and then when I moved to Khon Kaen, immigration wanted a letter from DLT - then when I went back to do my car one, they dropped the procedure of requesting letter from DLT.

Cool .. glad you saw the post, I forgot who posted the request. If you cant find it, I can upload somewhere. Im looking forward to this one, not that I have an interest in kiddy fiddlers. I find it fascinating that as a kid during this time, it this was just totally missed. There was another, National Treasure, National Disgrace about Stuart Hall, Rolf, Jimmy and and the Netflix documentary about Saville from last year.

By law 24 hours but when we moved during Covid the local authority wanted us to isolate for 2 weeks. When we did the tm30, immigration didn’t care about a thing, if they did we would have just changed the date of arrival. Your landlord is kind of correct, I got a 2000B fine once, it only came to rise when I visited to get a certificate of residence. Immigration probably won’t be actively hunting down tm30 offenders. The technical term is not the possessor - it’s the housemaster which could be the owner, landlord or the renter. When it was discovered that I hadn’t filed a Tm30, this was back in the day when no one filed them. They called the landlord, he said, didn’t know, didn’t care, wasn’t his responsibility, no he wouldn’t attend immigration, no he wouldn’t be paying a fine, all he did was rent a house for 5K a month. In the end I paid otherwise they wouldn’t issue the certificate. Hotels may be different, but anyone who thinks immigration will go after a private landlord is dreaming, it’s the ultimate responsibility of the “housemaster” who is the person who signs the lease, out wife or girlfriend, which in turn the westerner pays.

Someone posted a question about Rolf Harris: Hiding in Plain Sight It airs on 18th May on ITVX, 2 parts https://www.itv.com/presscentre/presscentre/presscentre/epweekweek-20-2023-sat-13-may-fri-19-may/rolf-harris-hiding-plain-sight

Damn - I just watched third episode of The Citadel last night - I finished the episode and I had no idea what I had just watched, total pile of steaming crap. Paramount+ has had some decent stuff recently, I downloaded Fatal Attraction, will give it a look along with The Silo - I think this series of The Curse is slightly better than the last, good for a 30 min break watch.