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Says it all. So you made a stereotypical generalization about Thais when you haven't seen middle class Thais enjoying craft beers because you yourself have never been to such places and haven't met any Thais who have. Meanwhile you're under the illusion that somehow all farang have better taste than Thais (Chang, ha! Leo), and ignored the fact that Stella Artois, AKA "wifebeater," is the leading beer brand by sales in the United Kingdom (UK). Laughable. That piss water's in about the same class as Bud or PBR.

Bring USD from the USA, transfer USD into USD FX account in Thailand, OR just change THB to USD at Superrich for the best exchange rate. Carry a big wad of USD to Cambodia in bills of various denominations to avoid getting many Riels in change. Guard your stash. Sorted.

Yep, a screwup. Probably should stick with pre-builts. Advice has some custom jobs that aren't too bad. Rarely works. I described how to migrate Win 7 installations above, which you dismissed as "not the main topic." Except, no booting remains a mystery and looking at your BIOS seems getting old. As a sanity check, I'd try a boot disk or bootable USB stick. That could be Linux, too. Pleasantly shocking when that repair works. Bare metal restore or Paragon's boot repair (on a bootable flashdrive) is the way to go. Personally, I never reinstall Windows, just move it around and upgrade it when I feel like upgrading. Now, I do like Win 10 better than 7--though I loved 7, and 8.1 was pretty good, too. Don't see much point in 11 yet. Internal graphics can use embedded generic drivers. Your old Windows installation won't boot because it's not bootable on your different hardware, period. Drivers and config are different and Win 7 isn't smart enough to deal with it. Anyway, this isn't your main topic.

Farangs seem just as price-conscious. Hence Chang, and the beer bars selling the cheapest. But I see Hops in Pattaya packed out with Thais drinking their specialty brews. Sorry. You only know the impoverished peasants, as most do here.

I never understood why Brits like warm beer until it was explained that Lucas made their refrigerators.

Perfect! You have Gold Standard confirmation from our classic ANF Poster Inverse IndicatorTM . Notify landlord, buy ticket to Orlando Sanford (SFB) Airport tomorrow. You're outta here, problems solved. T should be elevated within a month or two w/ exercise, good diet, and plenty of free sex.

Updating the BIOS is one of the first things you yourself should have done. Not surprising in the least. Win 7 doesn't migrate well; people seem to have forgotten about that. Typically you use Sysprep on the old computer first or use a backup and universal restore program from a third party. You can also use a program like Paragon to repair the boot. Otherwise you can use Windows repair media and get into DOS, cd to the target disk and mess around. Our Experts here, esp those on the cutting edge, will recommend you clean install Win 11 pronto. Bonus points: use hacks to get around the hardware requirements if needed.

It's more obvious than ever that, as discussed in another thread, a retirement community (The Villages) is the perfect place for you to live. There you'll have the facilities to exercise, trainers, classes, a counselor, and free pickup at your door to keep you to a schedule in the pool and gym.

Why?

Winked.

OMG, you read my mind! The Saranchol slum was in fact my backup in case I couldn't find the Royal Cliff unit for less than 700,000. You know ANF Poster Economics: Thais raise prices when things aren't selling. I know that 25 milllion is simply a failure to update the database. For the last 20 years or so. I'm also not seeing any of those pitiful little handwritten For Sale notices on the notice boards at Foodland or Big C, however. @Keep Right, please put us in touch with all those owners in these slums desperate to sell and heading for the exits! We're ready to buy!

No, you didn't. The complaint about "No root partition" comes out of the "Do something else" manually partitioning options, where you failed to create it (and others, probably). It can't possibly come from "Erase Disk and Install" because using that method, Ubuntu automatically creates a root partition for you.

Great news! I'm glad an expert has finally weighed in. How much are condos now in that 26-year-old Royal Cliff Garden slum? Been wanting to pick up a 2-bedroom for a song. Down to, say, B300,000 now? Should be cheaper than Nirun anyway.

That appears merely leftover from a Windows installation. Ubuntu doesn't use NTFS natively. A Windows disk partitioned into system and data normally uses NTFS for both, was the point. If you'll let Ubuntu erase and install automatically, you'll end up with a SMALL EFI system partition, 512 MB, and an EXT4 partition taking up the rest of the disk. The Ubuntu installation medium includes a number of programs. To access them, you have to select the TRY option, not the Install option first. Gparted is among the programs. Use TRY first. You can install from there later. You may not need this step but it seems not a bad idea. You'll be SURE that Ubuntu will use the entire disk, not a partition. That video leads to mucking about with manually again creating partitions. At 0:69 it deselects the Erase and install option you need and goes off into the weeds. Get over it. You've been in the weeds already. Why go back? I know well about manual partitioning and have done some more challenging installations, like a portable SSD Mint to boot under both EFI and legacy BIOS. I currently dual boot OpenSUSE Tumbleweed manually partitioned (encrypted /home only, XFS format), /root Btrfs format for snapper rollback, etc.--and Windows. In your case, I don't see WHY you think you need to manually partition. Do you know? If not, why? BTW, Ubuntu updates itself when a new version comes out, after you're notified and you ask it to. There's no reinstalling with threat of a Windows-like erasure of your data, which you're going to backup anyway with the Ubuntu Backup program. Let Ubunbu do it automatically and be done. Reboot, start using your computer. It's really quite simple.

No need. I've got both High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way and The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer:The Art, Science and Philosophy of a Bodybuilding Legend. Greatest student of Arthur Jones. I add in Ken Hutchins, Drew Baye, and the consolidator, Doug McGuff. P. D. Mangan applies the principles to fitness training. Efficient; safe; fast. Typically, our members here are outdated and think weight training has to be about masochistic, time-consuming, soul-and-joint destroying bodybuilding--and only Arnold-style bodybuilding they learned from old muscle mags. Fitness sites constantly promote it to young men with dreams of babes. Complicated routines, schedules, diets, and dreams make big money. Low carb, HIT, HIIT, super slow, light weights, one or two sets a week, same basic routine, are so utterly simple they can't make money. So you never hear of them.

If you "like" brushing your teeth, then that's all to the good. Ultimately it's not about "like." I've no "like" for exercise in general. As P. D. Mangan says, I suggest not to look to food and exercise for entertainment, that's not their purpose. If you want to be lean and fit, find your entertainment elsewhere. Lee Priest, bodybuilder, was once asked what body part he likes training most. "None. I hate them all". Even Jack LaLanne never particularly enjoyed working out. The schedule is paramount. You have to create a schedule and it has to be a priority. And you don't need a gym. I stayed quite fit at home during COVID lockdowns using my TRX suspension trainer, resistance bands, a few dumbbells, and interval sessions on a treadmill (for which you can substitute an exercise bike or elliptical machine). I made good use of isometrics. It was never easy; intensity is necessary. If you're not trying for gains, you're just going to lose muscle faster. But, big advantage: I enjoyed watching vids and listening to my music. Numbers stayed with range, and the transition back to a gym was fairly painless.

Worst time to give it up. Evidently you were already maxed out and ripped as Arnold. Even so, there's maintenance and metabolic health to consider. "Gainz" are for young men hoping to impress babes. Still, if you aren't maxed out (5 years of serious training, roughly), you can still gain muscle and more importantly strength to be maintained to slow your progress towards frailty and chronic disease. Your body fat increased for dietary reasons and body composition declined party for lack of strength training. To stay healthy in old age, research finds building muscles is key 13 Benefits of Strength Training for People Older Than 50 Metabolic Syndrome and Sarcopenia The association of resistance training with mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis Yes. No, "like" has nothing to do with it. Do you "like" brushing your teeth? Most likely owing to a lack of aerobic fitness and hence low VO2max. One can become fit via swimming, but few will push themselves to the intensity needed to do so. Not to say it isn't better than nothing. You can publish all your numbers and meds (as @scubascuba3and I have, both needing no meds), and we can take a look. Some time ago a member was sneering at guys lifting weights in a gym as he touted his own smarter, genteel exercise, swimming. Turned out, after a long back-and-forth, that he's actually just an old fat keyboard warrior on meds, now paddles around in a pool sometimes like the old guys in my condo building. No doubt he remembers past glories.

You don't need any partitioning skills. When you install Ubuntu, when you come to the partitioning dialogue, you simply choose erase disk and install Ubuntu. Period. Your BIOS is complaining about the lack of a bootable disk. But first there's the question of "disk." It's hard to tell from your screenshot. But looks like you may have a huge FAT32 partition and an NTFS partition on one disk. As a guess, it was perhaps partitioned previously into system and data partitions. "Experts" typically do so, needed to reinstall when they can't fix anything. But they're usually both NTFS. That suggests your Ubuntu "installation," if any, is totally unbootable, lacking any small EFI system partition, which Ubuntu correctly sizes and configures, with the boot, esp flags set. And you lack the other partition, EXT4 by default, containing /, /home, /var, /swap and everything else you need. Hopeless. You might disconnect the larger disk to prevent yourself from becoming confused. Boot the Ubuntu installation medium and run the included Gparted program. Use that to erase all the partitions on the target SSD disk so that you see the total 12? GB in one partition on one device. Then let Ubuntu do its thing without manually intervening. After you install correctly, take out the installation medium and your installed Ubuntu will boot. BTW, on many machines you can choose the boot device on the fly by pressing F8 or F11 during the initial boot sequence. May need a BIOS tweak, however.

Need to be some way to protect the unwell with their various deep-seated insecurities from their propensity to visit the testosterone clinics. Later they'll be walking around in bras for their moobs, panting with high blood pressure, popping estrogen blockers, trying to locate their balls, and writing numerous confused posts on our beloved forum, making excuses to continue the "addiction." Needless suffering for lack of caretakers to save them from delusions (some about their actual location), confusing past with present, fanciful, time-wasting dreams (buying a gym, renting out condos), smugly belittling others, seizing opportunities for schadenfreude, and engaging in frequent self-defeating opinions and behaviors. What happened to lobotomies as an acceptable treatment? Never hear about them nowadays. I think electroshock is still used, in some cases.

Peter Jackson Said More Beatles Music Is ‘Conceivable’ Via AI After Release Of ‘Now And Then’ Whenever anyone asks why I like the Beatles, I say they make me happy. With the world in the state it is, we need the Beatles to appear again, as if a flying saucer has touched down and they’ve got off and are providing us with their one last song to cheer us up.”

Modern Ubuntu normally has no problems booting under EFI. Did you reformat the disk beforehand and then just accept the default Ubuntu partitioning scheme? Sounds like you were doing some manual partitioning that didn't quite work.

Back in the early 2000s I visited a small, local TT&T office about my landline. Three ladies were working close together at the small counter. After some discussion among themselves, they concluded that I'd have to come back the next day for necessary paperwork. One of them told me so. In the USA when you ask a shop owner/store employee, "What time do you open?" it's immediately understood you're referring to the shop's opening hours. Somewhat idiomatic, perhaps. Without really thinking it out, I mentally translated that question literally into Thai and asked it of the lady who'd just spoken to me. All three burst out laughing.

How so?

Yes, exactly what you need. Which you also need, to protect yourself from yourself. With all those stressful decisions that you'd make wrongly already made for you in your own best interests, you can just relax and enjoy the amenities.

That's in Thailand, where the Thais tend to live (surprisngly enough). You don't like them. And they surely don't like you. That problem all goes away in The Villages. NO Thais. If you lived out in the sticks, you'd whinge about boredom, as you do now. You want service, at your door, plenty of things to do. People enjoyable to interact with, not in rush, not stressed out. Quiet, discreet. Close your curtains, and you're alone—or in private with a babe enjoying some o' that free pussy. Enough with the excuses.