BigStar

And you have no opinions about the stats and facts, and are merely acting as our very own little Farmer’s Almanac. Spot on; what a valuable service. The OP is expressing an opinion that Thais are annoying. My observation is that most such negative opinions about Thais and Thailand are merely about the posters themselves. So actually it is the OP who’s annoying. Other members here, and Thais, might well agree. Given your own unquestionably high intelligence, you’re disturbed about the possibility that our posters’ common opinion that Thais are stupid may just mean that they are stupid. True, they may, like yourself, have observed an indisputable fact. Shockingly, now, often the facts given here by our inevitably smarter-than-Thais are wrong or merely hearsay. Countless examples of such in the Visas forum. But that really isn’t the issue, you see. To continue, a few prominent examples illustrate my point. A poster insists that it’s stupid of Thais to charge him a baht or so to traverse through a BTS station. In fact, they do charge. After a few pages, it’s found that there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for the charge, and he’s stupid for his inability to figure out what it is for himself AND thinking it’s stupid of Thais in particular AND moreover displaying his stupidity on a public forum. At bottom, he doesn't like paying anything. But that’s an average poster whinging about some practice he doesn’t understand or like, poor thing. In view of our most cherished stat (right up there with our bigger willies) that the average Thai IQ is 88, it’s instructive to observe our forum intelligentsia in action. Among many others in the rarefied atmosphere at the top end of the IQ bell curve, say 140+, we have, for example, our Economists and Construction Engineers. Our awesome Economists observe a true fact: the Central Festival shopping mall is being constructed on Beach Road in Pattaya. A chorus of sneers promptly erupts led by the Economists. One of the most knowledgeable explains bankruptcy will ensue because the fools are trying to charge Bangkok prices! Yeah, nobody will shop there. 🙂 Same with T21. Same with Big C Extra, Pattaya Klang. Even today, they may insist all the malls are always empty, though they never go there. And the greatest example of our high IQ Engineering idiocy involved the construction of the Tunnel at the Sukhumvit/Pattaya Klang intersection. Fact: Tunnel. But Thais are too stupid to construct tunnels! It would never be finished. It would flood immediately: Thais never thought about that. Members joyously entertained themselves with rubber ducky cartoons, hee hee. Then it turned out that our Engineers hadn’t known that water doesn’t run uphill. I could go on for pages. Bigotry is behind many of the negative opinions, so therein lies the explanation of why they typically say more about the poster than Thais. Often, they're excellent inverse indicators, as in the above.

Almost all complaints about Thais and Thailand boomerang and actually apply to the poster himself. After a complaint about Thai stupidity is analyzed, it's discovered that the poster is stupid. That is, in this case, it is merely you who are annoying, even to yourself, and just not enjoyable to interact with. I don't find Thais annoying and I find it enjoyable to interact with them. That's one of the big reasons I live in Thailand. Even in tourist-shocked Pattaya, I can simply speak some Thai, smile, show good manners, and then, having distinguished myself from the idiots, I get friendly responses and service even from all those tough vendors.

I should also point out that Apple gives you much better tech support than M'soft. Friend of mine, utterly clueless about computers, was having problems getting his Mac and all-dancing printer to communicate. Got Apple on the phone right away, and they spent 30 min patiently walking him through everything, click here, there, blah blah. He's a big user of support services and hates most of them. But he LOVED Apple's support, couldn't praise them highly enough.

He didn't mention tabs. He said windows. He also didn't say "switching" between windows but closing and opening. That implies starting up a program. All programs, or particular programs? When? Any time? What other programs are also running? Oh--Norton😉 doing a scan, which he's installed and don't need. He would have to provide more details to analyze what he really means and fix it. Our forum experts will simply recommend a clean reinstall on an SSD. Fixing? Whassat? In any case, commonly used programs don't by default open slowly nowadays on Windows on reasonably modern hardware. Hardware and resource usage are in fact under control of the user by choice, whether he realizes it or not. Now, I run Fedora XFCE on an ancient throwaway netbook I keep around to tempt maids to steal in cheap hotel rooms. It's light and lovable, but it ain't fast. Open 15 tabs on Chromium, and it slows to a crawl, if Chromium doesn't outright freeze. Fedora itself don't crash, though, whereas Windows did. So that's all to the good.

Bigger 'n' badder than ever, partly owing to low carb, just more bored w/ the forum. Rain's arrived in our beloved cesspool, as you've noticed. Stuck inside the other day, I decided I'd finally jump back in and have a few smiles. May not stay long. It's mostly a waste of time, talking to yourself. 😉

OK. Fastest way would be for you to right-click on the underlined sentence. Very useful acronym. It can be googled, BTW.

OMG. But GIYF. --https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/widows-11-setting-default-program-for-jpg-files-is/f70ec1d9-3c63-4b80-9c80-fd91e19685f8 But enough spoonfeeding. Windows always has little issues, no matter the version. Linux, somebody would have to set up carefully for you, taking into account your sensitivities. MacOS is what you need. Meanwhile, while getting answers yourself, you're ignoring:

What Is PEBKAC?

You seem to have missed the point. Incidentally, I note that @BritManToo, biggest fatalist on the forum, after numerous smug assurances over the years about being ready to go at just any time, seems hardly ready to go after all. What a big effort at "recovery" in the hsp after his recent motorbike accident. Recovery? Why?

Ah. Yes, there is. Oh, Google around and learn how properly to change Win 11’s default apps. WOT? You mean when you, say, open a .pdf file with Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe also suggests that you should use Edge instead? OMG. It's a conspiracy. 1 GB occupies your almost full hard disk? ☹️ Why don’t you just go in and clean out all the crapware that’s tracing your habits and publishing the resulting crap? Have you received a Low Disk Space notification? Let’s have a screenshot of Disk Management to check the space on your puny drives. Now Google is suggesting you use Edge instead of Chrome when you check your email? M'soft has its tentacles everywhere! But in fact, if you use Edge for the purpose, Google will suggest you use Chrome instead. Why not? However, you may find that suggestion stressful. Some computer geek could probably tell you how to remove it. Using an email client will end your distress over that issue. Consensus holds that MacOS is about as dumbed down as a serious OS can get. Mac users love their Macs, love their apps, and never complain about any crapware. Favored among Thai ladies. Deprived users, now, might contend that a sunk cost fallacy lies at the bottom of such adoration, but—sour grapes, no doubt. Apple does have much to recommend it.