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So, @Jingthing, you can just pay Grab delivery to go pay your tax for you. It works extremely well on your phone. Or a motorcy taxi driver. I used to pay one to do my 90-day reports, before online and before the new paperwork requirements and longer waits.

Where do you think your data is stored in the cloud? As of the end of 2023, Backblaze was monitoring 270,222 hard drives used to store data. --https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2023/ OH. Hard drives.🤣 Why be obligated to make recurring payments for storage on their hard drives, w/ slower access, dependent on their service, when I can just have my data at hand locally? Unless--I have only a laptop.

Life's too short to waste 2 minutes of it scanning something. And I'll just keep that money, thank you. It seems others don't find it easy, however. Best make a video for them to follow.

But life's not too short to waste time going to the Tax Office year after year or otherwise screwing around trying to pay the tax.🤣

You seem to be getting a little hot under the collar here. Nobody cares if you prefer laptops and need to tout your preference in a topic about desktops. Yup, like most desktop users, I need, or prefer, a large desktop screen for day-to-day routine computer use. A laptop doesn't come with one. So then I'd have to buy an external monitor, having paid for a laptop screen I don't really need. I'd have to buy an external keyboard (I don't like laptop keyboards) and an external mouse. Furthermore, I can't fit in 3 SSDs and 2x6 TB HDDs in a laptop. No, I don't want an external drive docking station or NAS. I also have a SATA mobile rack in my desktop case for hot swapping external SSDs or HDDs, very useful. I still have the DVD drive (just in case), and a few other bays for any new panels I might add. And, in your haste to "make sense," you ignored my point about laptop repairs, maintenance, and upgrades. The possibilities are limited and often excessively expensive. Me, I hate working on laptops. Similarly, my desktops have been with me more than a decade, BUT they run far better now than they ever did new, owing to upgrades and repairs that cost far less than buying new laptops. I recycle parts to other computers or keep them around as spares. Well, I guess only the cases are now original (LOL), but they're both great, love both of them. Yeah, I'm a big advocate of buying investing in a quality case. But that wouldn't concern you as a laptop user. 😉 Now my Dell Latitude laptop is about 10 years old and runs Linux quite well. I don't see a need for replacing it in the near future, since it's just for occasional travel. I'm impressed w/ Dell quality, the reason countless old Dells are still around. That's why I said in my OP that I'd take a more expensive Dell over a questionable custom build.

But TAT didn't claim success, nor did anyone say they did. In fact, they announced a lack of success, explained the reasons Challenges include economic slowdown in critical markets like China, where flight capacity to Thailand is still only 75% of pre-pandemic levels. and suggested ways to help ensure the goal might be met. And though myopia might suggest that all projections in corporate business and government agencies are of equal importance, in fact the degree of importance differs markedly among them from nothing to critical. I'm not going to bother elaborating such an obvious point, and you probably aren't competent to discuss the subject. You may relate the hard numbers you have on the economic devastation wrought by missing the mere projection. We'd love that. But in any case it's one of the Known Truths among our ace Economists that TAT tells porkies!

No need, just ask to watch. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

And happily countless others arrived and then stayed.

Better yet, just present your yellow book to the Tax Office and get a permanent exemption from paying any tax on your condo. 🙂

It would appear that the Scottish lady's tolerance didn't extend to approving of an old pervert splashing around in the kiddie pool with her children. You haven't been a parent, but most parents would understand her viewpoint perfectly. I guess tolerance has its limits. Surprise.

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I'm aware of that but I don't need a powerful laptop. When traveling, I just surf the news and check email. I bought an old Dell to travel with so that I don't need to worry about damage or theft. If I had to undergo months of rehab in a hospital, I'd like to have a gaming laptop to fight boredom. The day hasn't yet come. This might be argued in context of needs. Where's the laptop with a 32-inch monitor? Oh--that'll be extra. (For just ONE example.) Repairs, maintenance, upgrades also come into the picture. Well, let's hear now from our hipsters who only need phones, not desktops OR laptops, yawn. "People still use laptops???"

It would seem so. I understand. I've built or rebuilt so many that it's just boring. JIB will build one for you, and if I were buying a totally new machine, I'd let 'em do it, too, and just go behind and improve the cable management. I only use a laptop for traveling. I'm glad to get home to my desktop, among other things.

Up to you. I haven't.🙂

Good! Me, neither. Welcome to the rebellion, brotha. Indeed so. AMD has recently announced some new CPUs on AM4, so it's not dead yet. And you'll have an upgrade path there in the future. 7500F isn't the only option on AM5, by any means. 🙂 That will free up a SATA port on the Gigabyte B550 (if needed), though you didn't specify the exact model. I'd say, prepare to be less than totally impressed w/ the M.2 speed. Though it's incredibly faster according to the specs, it (cough) may not seem all that much in everyday use, unless you really want it to. But that, plus the CPU and RAM will be a major improvement. Hopefully the small rear retainer screw will be included w/ the M.2 or the motherboard. Look for that and don't let it get away. So enjoy your new machine. Night & day from your old FX-8200.

Maybe it's just that you can't afford better. Aren't there ghettos in Australia for you to obsess over? But move there and be done with it.

True. I ignored when they gave me notice, no problem, as it's not a regulation. They make no record of whether you submitted it or not. The bank book shows whether you had the funds or not.

Yup, that's the knee-jerk, expected and inevitable. Actually, some of the discounts are substantial rather than "little," for the budget minded. Me, I've bought from Aliexpress for years w/o problem. In fact, in my spare computer I have a used I7-4790k I bought there cheap, runs great. I'll buy from JIB if they have what I need and if I see no real advantage to buying elsewhere, And that's pretty often; I like JIB, except I don't much like their online checkout and payment workflow. Last time I just bought from them through Lazada and paid the shipping fee. But I've never had problems w/ Lazada, either, 'cause I buy from reputable, well-reviewed vendors. Our shrewdest members will claim all the reviews are fake. Cue: horror stories! Only problem I've had w/ an e-commerce portal was with a vendor on--Amazon! 🙂

Why are you so obsessed with Flybird and Nirun?

Call a Bolt. Sorted!

A shortfall of a mere projection. And we sneer at TAT's projections anyway. It's not like Thailand's now in debt an additional 500 billion or going to suffer immensely. No effects of that "shortfall" are even noticeable. So it's mainly just a meaningless "issue" for posters to bash, when they should be chortling and gurgling over their initial disbelief proving "true." IF they really believed anything; beliefs conveniently reverse in order to maximize negativity.

No problem. FX-8350 TDP > Ryzen 5600X TDP, if that's your FX. BTW, Aliexpress has some good deals on selected Ryzens, mostly Ryzen 7s, but of those some are AM4 if you want to stay in that bracket despite our ace future proofers. I read about them on reddit, one redditor writing a glowing review.

And 3 trillion ain't a bad place to be. We keep ignoring that fact. 🙂

But that would have greatly added to the cost of the road construction, unless the same cheap method was used as in the paradise of the UK, the former home of our most educated, highly qualified Engineers. That method has proved suboptimal, however. The life cycles of roads and utilities are rather different, and you get what you pay for. One of the maddest things about our congested road network in the UK is the way the authorities chose to place most of the crucial pipes and cables for water, electricity, gas and telephones under the carriageway and then seal them in under piles of rubble and tarmac. Each time they need to replace or repair expensive roadworks are undertaken, disrupting the highway, increasing the costs of the utility business, and creating tensions between the utility customers as road users and the utility managements. --Pipes and cables should not be buried under roads At the time, and later, the ace Electrical, Civil, and Cable Burying Engineers of the authoritative Pattaya Urban Planning Bureau, writing in the Pattaya Mail Mailbag section and later in the forum strongly opposed the idea, no matter that Brit electrocuted in S. Pattaya waddling around in flooded water. The reason was obvious and a forum Known Truth: Thais can’t bury cables. The insulation would rot underground; the entire cable would need to be exhumed to fix any break; rainy season would mean months without power; and flooding would soon expose the cables, leading to mass electrocutions.🤣 Similarly, The Bureau experts sneered when the construction of The Tunnel was announced, since Thais can’t build tunnels. They continued fun sniping throughout the years of its construction, complete with Rubber Ducky cartoons. It was never supposed to finished anyway, just as with the cables: We All Know that construction in Pattaya is just to line certain pockets. However, most of our ace Engineers have already jumped off the balconies of their flophouses in Soi Buakhao after learning of the successes of the Tunnel construction and of cable burying projects on Beach Rd., Walking St., Pattaya Nua and Klang. Posting is so much less fun now. The remaining lesser Experts have contented themselves with sneering that only the power lines were buried, not others such as internet cables. Therefore. the burying can now continue, except for the complaint is that it’s supposed to be accomplished with no disruptions whatsoever. Yet the most recent disruptions on Nua and Klang for burying cables wasn't so bad. Not really the same as for laying huge drainage pipes.

I'll have to walk this back, as Steam will automatically store saved games for you. But not for all games, and there's a usual space limit of 1 gb per game. It's not a lot for a big game. Not all games are Steam games, and many notable games, such as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, pre-date their Steam debut. Me, I have plenty of disk space, and do regular backups on other disks, so I don't worry about limits. And I only play on my main desktop. If I wanted to play on my spare desktop, I'd just manually synch. Never had a need for a gaming laptop. Can't imagine playing on a phone. I leave that to you hipsters. Still, that's Steam, w/i limitations. It's really not just "using Chrome."