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recom273

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  1. And it’s not a good camera - I had a choice of a free camera or cash discount for a few thousand. I had already decided I was going to get the top of the range xiaomi - the quality looked great fir the same price as the toyota discount. I spoke to a fitter, who was reluctant to fit an aftermarket camera in a new truck. He’d had issues before when his excellent work had voided an Isuzu warrantee. Toyota confirmed this. I chose the Toyota camera. After testing, It’s not so good, there’s not a 100% chance of grabbing a number plate or drivers face from the camera, especially the rear camera - The wifi function is a but naff. The wiring job by Toyota was pretty slick but I needed to modify the cable holder a little and swap the sticky pads. An experienced Thai fitter will charge you 500B.
  2. I started watching the first episode of the 3rd series of One Lane Bridge - hmm, its ok - it started off as a crime / mystery with supernatural twist, seems more about the latter / and bridge now. Still a good watch for the scenery.
  3. Just get a paid VPN - The games are all shown free, split between ITVhub / STV with its <deleted> quality and iplayer in 720p. SBS is really easy to navigate around, maybe a free VPN will work, but you can get one month on PIA / Express / Nord for 400B VPNs will be blocked or streams buffering - lol, ??
  4. I'm sure they were. I did have a mate who protested outside a well known language school on Sukhumvit after he was booted and the school wouldn't supply him with his tax receipts, he was outside a shopping center, walking up and down carrying a sign written in Thai - So this kind of thing does happen. (he got his money that company had been deducting over the years)
  5. We agreed to delete the video and no further action. The officers didn't have a clue anyway, I pressed delete, but iPhones store it in a "trash can" for 30 days. Everyone totally missed the point - I was told that it could be very bad to send the video to their superiors or post online, because they could lose their jobs and could be embarrassing for the company. Like, no <deleted> Sherlock - that's the whole point, they weren't doing their jobs because if they were there would be no reason to make the video. Just sayin' - demonstrating outside a restaurant might not have the desired effect poster thinks. Just think, exposing their lies could lead to a loss of revenue or making their restaurant look bad.
  6. I kind of did that at an airport once - trying to change a flight, perfectly polite, I was told to wait - no problem, after 40 mins of standing I took out my phone and started filming the staff who were too busy to deal with my issue, lounging on desks, messing about, moaning about being hungry and tired, then the police turned up. Things like this dont tend to go the way you think in the LoS.
  7. LOL - I didn't watch it until the end. It seems PIA that I always connect to, and then just leave running for days because its often easier than reconnecting, is owned by a dodgy company. Hands up who still wants to run a system wide VPN on their router? I like the researchers enthusiastic manner for the topic, interesting to find that China runs a good percentage of the free VPNs/
  8. An interesting view, especially those on free VPN (or proxys)
  9. I have never had any issues getting a refund from Lazada, but I feel that everything is great with Lazada until it isn't. These occasions have become less an less recently but still .. As opposed to the other crew, how that trainwreck of a company is still going is beyond me.
  10. When we bought the past two ovens, a teka (which we returned 9 months later because they couldn't send anyone to repair the thing) and then an Electrolux, we bought an oven with an accompanying nicrowave, both were fitted appliances - the microwave didnt cost much more than the oven alone. We don't use it to cook, just a bit of reheating, melting butter / chocolate for cakes, heating water for a second or two to make bread - well handy.
  11. You will be fine on surfshark - they have an android app that you can just switch on and off. I don’t know if you can use surfshark to access itvhub - they are changing to itvx very soon.
  12. Surfshark works OK .. It's cheap, does what it says on the tin. I use the app on my firestick to watch iplayer. There are better VPNs, surfshark doesn't access all of the iplayer streams and it only uses openVPN protocol - this is fine for most. I use personal internet access - for one, it has a specific London server for UK streaming, they dont "guarantee" the other servers will be able to access video servers like iplayer and ITV. The service failed for a couple of days over the past year, but they were really transparent, and quick to respond - the work they did much improved the speed - surfshark servers are quite slow, again, it's fine for most. Take a look around to if the VPNs offer this streaming server in the US or UK (wherever you want to access), someone mentioned cyberghost - They are reputable, you can find a chat line on most VPN website, push them for a deal to match surfshark - express and Nord are also worth looking at. If you want to mention what you want a VPN, where you want to egress, maybe your devices or how you are going to implement the VPN the response would be more detailed.
  13. Lol .. Issan residents are lazy and uneducated? Ready to rip you off at any moment; corrupt, primitive? All those educated westerners got their lessons from those YouTube videos that start “When I go to the village ..” go on to talk about “.. a farm girl” and end with “.. i’m happy to be home .. all that sitting on the floor..”
  14. AFAIK the wording is "housemaster" the person who is in charge of the rental - in my case, I was fined for not completing a TM30 (when no-one did it) The landlord told my wife to tell immigration to keep their fine, he wouldn't be paying it, not his problem. They then said my wife could be deemed "the housemaster" because she was the Thai person in charge of the rental. When we moved to our current rental, my wife took copies of the owners ID, the house book (both signed) my passport and everything, wifes ID and she filed the tm30. Khon Kaen immigration mentioned that it was the job of the owner, but accepted everything after we explained the landlady was just some old village woman with no transport - and then I threw the slip away, so when we went to get my yearly extension, then asked us to file another TM30 which we did with copies of the paperwork that we had. Won't you need to have a copy of the rental agreement / landlords ID and housebook for your retirement extension?
  15. Lol - you wife is prolly a wise woman. I don’t use public wifi, I have my data plan. if you spend 1000thb a month - give your provider a call, see what they can offer, they all have a special number that gives discount overseas calls. You might find it easier and cheaper to get a post pay package. I never regretted it, but I figure “pay-as-you-go” is a good way to keep overseas calls in check.
  16. No need to purchase extra sims and whatever - if you are going to be using wifi in public areas like a shopping mall or supermarket there is a good chance that 3BB has a wifi hotspot. I don’t use it but I gather it’s free to home internet customers. https://fiber.3bb.co.th/en/ช่วยเหลือ/3bb-wifi/ worthwhile following the instructions and having a scan when you are in places - for sure bigc, central, global will have a 3BB hotspot. PS how much do you spend on phone credit every month? I never regret getting a post pay contract package, you save a bit on not going to 7-11 and buying credit and some snacks and whatever at the same time as topup (not too sure if that’s still a thing, but that was my driving force for moving to post pay)
  17. Oh my - I just had a look at that door place, hmmmm .. it’s a bit messy.
  18. You will spend a lot of time gatekeeping every thread on this site, in fact there is whole internet out there to manage. Good luck! The OP was rather vague, I was giving the OP a light hearted opportunity to give us more of a clue where he wanted to go and where from .. or if he just wanted to ride around in circles for fun. Then he could get some more specific info. Anyway, crack on ..
  19. No - absolutely not!! I have a lot of digitized copies of VHS movie / TV show tapes and laserdisc, the laserdisc rips are ok - but tapes don’t have any detail, I wonder how we used to watch it. I far enjoy watching a HD 1080 show on cinematic TV, perhaps not 75”. I think mounting it in or on the wall takes away the idea that it dominates the room. Also, a big CRT TV used to occupy the corner of every living room I ever lived in because the tube used to take so much room.
  20. I bought a month trial on Private Internet Access - I used it for a couple of days, and thought I would take year. They told me there would be a delay in refund, but to my surprise, it was almost immediate. So not all hold your money. Express, PIA, Nord - are all good, I never heard anyone having trouble with a ID/Password but I don't doubt you - slowdown, stuttering? Maybe slow equipment, router or local infrastructure. In one year of PIA, I had LOS for three day. I have a surfshark VPN which wasn't up to scratch, but its OK for getting iplayer on a firestick. When I read about peoples issues with VPN, I'm really confused, how and why?
  21. Yes, I have 3x Deco M9 I was using a TP link router, but it kept on falling down and resetting itself with the number of smart home devices, not good when you were in a conference call. I found the router (app) quite restrictive, it didn’t play well with my Pi-hole, and there was a limited amount of fixed ip addy you could assign, so I bought a unifi router, which is great and put the deco mesh into AP mode, and it’s been rock solid for about 3 years now, I keep on meaning to upgrade to unifi AP but there’s no real need.
  22. Agreed, they should have left it at the first series.
  23. 4 Nights? Repeat customer, how long did you stay last time? 5 nights? They didn't miss out on much by raising the price on you, hardly worth accusing them of no business sense.
  24. Just watching the first episode of The White Lotus - I wasn’t expecting a second series, so was a surprise. Currently watching Gangs of London - it has to be the most violent series ever, along with Atlanta and The Peripheral whilst plodding through the Bulgarian Undercover. Did anyone else catch My massive cock last week - Interesting.
  25. LOL - It won't have a nice shiny red plate then - girls don't like bikes without shiny red plates.
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