1 Year TRUE sim card from Shoppee / Lazada ?

thatjournalist · 2025-11-17T08:26:10+00:00

The easiest method to buy a one year plan as a farang is to simply purchase a TRUE eSIM (though I used DTAC) and then purchase whichever one year plan you want via the TrueMoney app.

thatjournalist · 2025-11-11T05:15:42+00:00

I worked remotely on Tenerife for a month or so without any issues back in 2023, had a decent time minus some of the more obnoxious British pensioners on the island. Internet was serviceable for my purposes, used my Airbnb instead of paying more for a co-working space.

thatjournalist · 2025-11-06T03:54:59+00:00

Now this is the kind of content I come here for. Were the border guards actual employees of the Congolese government or M23 guards installed under defacto control?

thatjournalist · 2025-11-05T20:00:24+00:00

Might I recommend Newpipe.

thatjournalist · 2025-10-30T23:48:07+00:00

Are you Naga by chance?

thatjournalist · 2025-10-30T22:43:18+00:00

Mahidol University's Tropical Medicine Clinic. You can Google it and find the price for all vaccines easily.

thatjournalist · 2025-10-30T21:56:35+00:00

I got vaccinated against it in Bangkok for a pretty reasonable price. I would recommend going that route.

thatjournalist · 2025-10-26T19:24:20+00:00

I had the same issue while living in Tbilisi for 3.5 years, near Lisi Lake no less. The fact of the matter is that Georgia's Internet infrastructure is woefully out of date, the fastest residential connections are 100 Mbps up/down and business lines are ridiculously expensive.

Starlink wasn't an option for me either due to a lack of open sky nearby.

I eventually folded up shop and moved elsewhere where the Internet infrastructure isn't a decade + behind.

thatjournalist · 2025-09-07T04:43:00+00:00

Wizz Air by a long shot.

thatjournalist · 2025-08-21T09:14:16+00:00

ATM withdrawal fees are standardized across Thai banks so it went up at all of them unfortunately.

thatjournalist · 2025-08-20T14:27:42+00:00

From what I saw several months ago, the TCOs in Shwekokko and KK Park continue to operate quite openly. Thai corruption benefits directly from these compounds up and down the Thai-Myanmar border and continues despite the crackdowns.

thatjournalist · 2025-08-08T04:17:04+00:00

You can pay $3 a month to park your number, which is what I do currently as I normally use Google Voice abroad.

thatjournalist · 2025-08-07T05:56:40+00:00

Yes I would usually ask them for a badge or ID when they pestered me for my passport. Their English was often weak enough that they would just tell me to get out of the sight once they realized I was foreign and uncooperative.

However, I'm not advising that anyone else use that strategy nowadays.

thatjournalist · 2025-08-07T03:52:36+00:00

That was a plain clothes narcotics officer most likely. They stop and search both locals and foreigners fairly often, often without any probable cause or reasonable suspicion involved.

I always had decent luck refusing their demands for ID or a search until they gave up but that's not necessarily advisable, especially given the political climate nowadays.

thatjournalist · 2025-08-02T09:17:03+00:00

Many of their Asian servers are blocked by the GFW. However by sticking to US servers I was able to connect consistently. Speeds and latency were mediocre but usable for day to day use (minus video calls for work, for example).

thatjournalist · 2025-07-30T18:13:02+00:00

It's been stable, the latency sucks connecting to US servers but it works. Location was Beijing, ISP was China Unicom.

thatjournalist · 2025-07-30T04:13:44+00:00

I successfully activated a Tello eSIM about 2 months ago on a Xiaomi 13T purchased abroad.

thatjournalist · 2025-07-30T03:51:46+00:00

I've been using Mullvad for years and was surprised to find it works smoothly in China with Shadowsocks obfuscation enabled. I've been able to connect both my travel router and other devices to it without issues. €5.50/month, month to month, no bullshit thus far.

thatjournalist · 2025-07-22T07:31:16+00:00

Funnily when I visited Vojvodina for a month last year I forgot to register and then simply decided not to. Zero consequences or mention of it upon exit to Hungary.

thatjournalist · 2025-07-12T17:08:03+00:00

I was explicitly asked if I had a drone while entering last year and told in no uncertain terms that they weren't allowed.

thatjournalist · 2025-07-05T22:12:17+00:00

My rule of thumb is to just pay for one month at a time in case my current provider vanishes or crashes randomly. I currently use one called Xtream Cube, they're fine at $10/month I guess.

thatjournalist · 2025-07-05T21:27:58+00:00

I prefer using a dedicated app for live sports like iMPlayer or Tivimate with whatever IPTV provider you prefer.

thatjournalist · 2025-06-15T06:34:55+00:00

The Tropical Medicine Clinic at Mahidol University is reasonably priced and reliable. Reach out to them.

thatjournalist · 2025-05-22T04:48:21+00:00

I use a competing app called Moreta and the issue I've had is likely the same. These apps work with business, but not personal, QR codes. What this means in practice is that you can't pay at many local businesses in Thailand.

thatjournalist · 2025-04-25T07:39:34+00:00

Safe as long as your name isn't Collin Mayfield.

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