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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.
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What's life like for a single older expat in isaan?
recom273 replied to georgegeorgia's topic in Isaan
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? -
What's life like for a single older expat in isaan?
recom273 replied to georgegeorgia's topic in Isaan
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. -
What's life like for a single older expat in isaan?
recom273 replied to georgegeorgia's topic in Isaan
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. -
What's life like for a single older expat in isaan?
recom273 replied to georgegeorgia's topic in Isaan
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. -
Transferring subtitle files to program files.
recom273 replied to giddyup's topic in IT and Computers
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.
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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.
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2023)
recom273 replied to CharlieH's topic in Entertainment
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.
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2023)
recom273 replied to CharlieH's topic in Entertainment
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,
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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.
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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.
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2023)
recom273 replied to CharlieH's topic in Entertainment
Yes! I just watched the first two last night - Great to see the return of LD. -
What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2023)
recom273 replied to CharlieH's topic in Entertainment
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.
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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.
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2023)
recom273 replied to CharlieH's topic in Entertainment
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. -
What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2023)
recom273 replied to CharlieH's topic in Entertainment
Currently watching the first season of Dom a Brazilian series, from Amazon. https://imdb.com/title/tt13354188/ So far, so good - it’s just started a second series. -
What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2023)
recom273 replied to CharlieH's topic in Entertainment
Here is some gossip for fans of The White Lotus https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/white-lotus-season-3-location-thailand-1235565604/ -
Curfews considered in harsher measures to control forest and farm fires
recom273 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Apologies if I misread, I think you present some valid points. So what is your position on this? It seems by justifying the position of farmers that you are supporting their actions. ETS: OK, fair play, you have made your stance clear. I agree with you very much, and I dont see a simple answer to the problem, which may be your position too.