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It was harder than it should have been. I ended up paying an extra month, then you need to go back to the shop with the box, then she had forgotten her ID card (not sure why) and they wouldn’t accept the box - I used a long hdmi cable because their short cable would reach my storage unit. Because I didn’t return the cable they tried to charge me an over inflated charge to replace the hdmi like 700B. I don’t know where the original was, we paid around 1500-350B a month at different times for 10 years and they were quibbling over a cheap Chinese cable. Then my landlord wanted the dish gone, they refused to remove it. It was harder than should be, almost to the point of it being petty. The reason i moved was because AIS was offering free IPTV (Thai channels) and I was saving myself 4000B a year, True were offering something similar but their sales guy called me, didn’t want to speak English or Thai with me and put the phone down 4 months earlier, the offer expired. I asked for a refund, no can do. I offered them a couple of ways to make it right, then took two phone a numbers and TV services (which I had had for 12 years) to AIS. Then every month for the next 6 they would call and ask if I wanted to return to them. Strange company.

@parafareno I’m with you. I can’t stand the texture and the flavour any longer. I must say, if you can get it from farm and mill it yourself (not yourself but at a local mill) then it does have a lot better flavour. If I’m out and about I would prefer some cheaper rice that has a nuttier flavour. At home I prefer to eat increasingly more bread, pasta, red rice and French fries (Chinese potatoes are also a bit disappointing). I also along with loss of love for Jasmine rice, I cook a lot more indian or Chinese food - Thai food doesn’t seem to have much depth, just ingredients tossed in a pan with fish sauce / oyster sauce. It’s all a bit lazy and one note. Each to their own, just sayin’

I don't see the connection, your original comment infers that there is a lack of Westerners, lack of western restaurants, lack of diverse culture in Issan. The comment I quoted corrects you. For crying out loud, you are now telling us that Ao Nang is the center of the cultural universe .. LOL. It's a tourist ghetto. Even when I lived in Krabi province, I would never go there.

You use mobile data - just like you browse Facebook or use LINE when out and about - I pay about 300B a month, post pay for my package which includes a certain amount of calls, which I use in excess of atm. I find that works for me, I use the data as a backup for work and have burnt through a data cap before. No, I dont use it as a hotspot, you just plug the phone into your car and you have a navigation / entertainment / talking computer system.

How old is your car? I have a carplay / android auto equipped “radio” I just plug any phone with mobile data. With iPhones there is never an issue, often there is a bit of button pressing with androids where it often forgets the permissions. I think you could get away with a 300B/ month data package.

Where do you get these ideas from? Ever heard of freezers, growing your own and home cooking? Like broccoli, that's a plant, you can grow it yourself, it's the same thing if you are in the city or country. Do we not have the same high speed internet as the rest of the country? Do we not get the same video streaming / pirate services / free IPTV over VPN as the rest of the country?

I lived in Hat Yai for 12 years, now in Khon Kaen - western restaurants in Issan? there are more western restaurants than I have ever seen in the last decade. I am starting to sell my Italian basil harvest to restaurants, I find a new Italian every week! There are two (BIR) Indian restaurants in town, one is part of an expanding chain of 3-4 throughout Issan, and the food is excellent. Lets not even mention Japanese or Sushi. Buriram has changed a lot, so I gather - but I loved my visits there, the sports bar, the Irish bar (and Im not a drinker) - you have the most excellent Buriram Pie man, im sure others, as you mention. Westerners - Going to Big C in KKC, there are more westerners pushing shopping carts than Thais. Nightlife - I wouldn't know, but if im driving through any city on a weekend night, there are countless places - small western dive bars, big Thai live music venues, they are packed and buzzing. Anyone who thinks of Issan as some backward Hicksville needs to catch up.

Renting a place in the city would be the same as any other city in Thailand, quite impersonal. You might meet people in or around bars, you see a lot of westerners in the markets / supermarkets, some exchange a nod, some put their heads down. Most westerners live outside, either in "Farang" mansions in the village or in the private estates on the ring roads. Life would be pretty boring in a condo. --- Yes, not so difficult to rent out of town, but not easy - one of the issues is the houses are quite basic, maybe not really western standards.

For a single older guy, life in the sticks would be difficult, but in some ways easy. I know one other westerner in my area, I have seen another couple around and about, I know a couple of westerners homes but I don't want to intrude. But you can make western friends very easily, westerners need to get along and life would be very difficult if you were really on your own. Us folks up here tend to have decent lives, decent houses and gardens, far nicer to sit on the verandah with a beer than at some crappy bar listening to the same ole (maybe with some silly girl a small fraction of your age "where you come from?") I think if you came here thinking you might find a local farm girl or divorcee, I think would be difficult. There is a massive age void in the village, lots of left behind kids, lots of grandparents.

You can do it in handbrake, as mentioned, but it would reencode, depending upon your computing power, it could take some time. The best way would be ffmpeg - this would mux the subs into the file, its command line, so may be a little difficult to get your head around, but it's the fastest.

Then I have the greatest of respect for you, however, you didn't mention "say something" you inferred that you would physically intervene. I would put my own personal safety and my permission to stay here before physical intervention. Nothing wrong with telling him to stop or similar - nothing wrong with shouting to the local Moto taxis / security guard to come and sort it.

The general answer is .. keep your nose out however, that may not sit well with your conscious. You don't know the whole domestic situation, maybe you go to give him a dig and he pulls out a knife or gun - also, you are a guest here, you are on rocky ground with the police if you start brawling in the street - leave it to a local to sort out.

Interesting - I hadn’t heard about this one. It seems although it was made, it was announced that it would air back in August ‘22, but maybe it never did. My auto-DL program scraped up a report that it will air on ITVX, no date given. I could be wrong, I would like to see it.

Apparently so. I have one, I find the amazon App Store too restrictive, it's georestricted .. you can side load apps from a secondary App Store. I use it to add a VPN to my TIzen OS TV and then watch BBC Live, other than that I have an Apple TV.

I have been waiting for this one - Don’t leave me - from the makers of Gomorrah - appeared this week on Walter presents .. now I noticr that it’s was on SBS since last July. https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2022/07/14/italian-crime-drama-dont-leave-me-gilded-gothic-beauty-even-it-plunges-deep

What cards have 10 sata ports? I have a Dell PERC H310 in a box and a LSI 9240 in one server. I didn’t see your server creation before, nice, I prefer to keep everything rack mounted,

He can use a PCIe HBA to add up to 8 HDD. The biggest problem I find is finding a case to accept 8 drives here.

If you have space in the case for multiple HDD and use your machine for seeding torrents 24/7 then buy a new PC for your editing and admin and then use the old case and HDD as a media server, running unraid.

Yes! I just watched the first two last night - Great to see the return of LD.

Thanks, I was having a crap morning until you made me chuckle with new terminology. I will certainly use in the future.

Already mentioned, Rabbit Hole - well worth a look, I just watched the first 3 episodes in an evening.

When I was a BKK bar lurker, I remember not all bar girls were young - hardcore - tattooed - aggressive types that I see on Pattaya YouTube vlogs. I remember, there were a lot of girls that never used to get picked to go home, they would all scuttle down Cowboy and at other times I would see them heading back to their apartments on Suk 71 where I was living at 2.00 am. When visiting BKK, I never had trouble convincing most of them to take the night off to go somewhere else, or to make a phone call and pick them up after work. I rarely paid a bar fine, I was always given the opportunity "up to you" (I mean, obviously the same ole same ole, I was young, hansum with ..) - There were a few that were big trouble and were only interested in doing the business and moving on to the next customer, but most were nice girls. I still have a few bar girls in my fb, they are in their mid 40s now, seem to have done really well for themselves and look happy enough, not all of them with Western guys, some hooked up with Asian guys in SG or HK, some are married to handsome Thai guys with kids. So i'm not too sure that the old phrase of "you can take a bar girl out of a bar .. " is always true.

Absolutely true, this is what I mean - For example, we also feed chemicals to the Salmon in Norway and no one bats an eyelid, they just think its great to get cheaper and pinker fish in the supermarket.

All intensively reared fish are given antibiotics and hormones, it's included in their feed, it gives them the right flesh color for the supermarket, changes sex so they dont waste time and energy developing reproductive organs, allows them to build better use proteins in the food. I don't necessarily know of the specifics of Pangasius culture but after agricultural college, I spent 10+ years working in the UK aquaculture industry. Another concern is the high levels of heavy metals in the Mekong delta. There is so much negative press on Pangasius, I am sure you can do your own research. Like I say, I wouldn't say im a fan of them, but I certainly don't rule out eating them once or twice a year. It can't be much worse than eating the products of shrimp farming in Thailand.

Now that’s scraping the bottom of the barrel. there is a series called “crossroads classics” at 21GB and some year packs from 1977-1981 which are about 30-40GB each out there, if you use other methods.