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“but without breaking the bank on power usage?”
For roughly equivalent power a new Ryzen 7 setup saves me about 20% in terms of power compared to a five years old i7. If you really want to save leccy take a hard look at your GPU as well.
We need to tell Boris to cut out his stupid school-boy jibes, and stop annoying Putin!
A backpack is fine and will give you plenty of security. I guess if you pretend to be one of the myriad of impecunious Asia back-packers it is even OK for bartering!
As said, KL is safe. What you are planning is OK even for the snatch and grab capitals of Ho Chi Minh city and Ha Long Bay. Those can be quite challenging areas if you get off-course. A friend of ours wears ‘gold’ rimmed specs and she even had these stolen in Vietnam – most inconvenient! That said, even the safest of cities has some scary areas if you wander away from the main tracks – Washington DC had areas that made me feel distinctly uncomfortable.
I should perhaps have said the very expensive (blank chequebook) Flying Turkey. It would seem that once again the MOD have been taken for a ride by the Yanks and we are going to have to pay yet another third of a billion pounds just to get the Flying Turkey into a state where it might possibly be able to both fly and fight! I’ll bet that isn’t the last money call that is made for this heap of ‘flying’ scrap.
Thanks again to ElReg for highlighting facts that the MOD and Yanks would rather were buried in an obscure Parliamentary response. link
I just use a filter on my emails which I only accept in text format (never html!). MailWasher Pro is my favourite for Windows as you can just tell it to delete all non-english font emails, or those originating outside a few selected countries. It may not help you now but mail filters is the way to go.
Others will tell you to use Google as that too has a filtering system. I personally trust Google only a shade more than I trust Facebook, but Android has me by the purse-strings so I do have a gmail junk mail account for use with companies that insist on having an email address
You have learned your lesson on clicking random buttons so I will not add to your woes..
KL is generally safe in the well-lit tourist areas. However as usual, avoid displays of copious wealth and clutch your handbag (New York style) under your arm. My wife used to eschew the bum-bag style of safeguarding things as nothing marks you out more quickly as a tourist, and she used to like bartering.
PM from your description I’d guess that the wires(s) on the socket or plug have come loose. Take a look at the plug asap, and if you have the skill do the same with the socket. Loose wires can be very dangerous.
As above, but you have a misconception over tax brackets. You do not push ALL your tax into a higher bracket, just the bits that do not qualify for the lower tax bracket. There are exceptions to this if you qualify for special allowances then incremental earnings CAN push you over a cliff. If you are in a position where you get special allowances you may well need expert advice. Try this CAB advice as a general; starter.
Like half these places spelling is arbitrary and what you are used to seeing. Other than this thanks for the correction – I should perhaps have said Kuching for its cats,
In and around the peninsular the following are interesting places.
a) East Coast beaches/turtles etc — Cherating. I’ll leave you to Google these places.
b) Camaron Highlands — go for a temperate break. Great tea, but lots of Casinos which can be a cheap place to stay if you can avoid temptation. (All the different teas are worth exploring)
c) Kukup – ethnic fishing village. The mainly ethnic Chinese look like everyone’s mental image of a Straits Pirate (and some may be!)
d) Malacca – Interesting, a slight step back in time.
e) Penang/Georgetown — go if you can.
f) Singapore – fantastically modern city but darned expensive and crowded. Very interesting place for rich tourists, great place to live as an expat.
If your budget allows do fly to Kochin, and Sabah and take a hike up Kinabalu. link
Imo avoid Terranganu, the almost entirely Muslim population are quite extreme in their religious observances unlike most of Malaysia. They were rumoured by the Thais to be engaged in terrorist activities across the Thai border.
Also avoid the Sepang F1 course – it is miles from anywhere and quite boring outside race-time.
Thinking about it, I probably misspelt ‘harm’ it probably was actually ‘haram’ which is the Malay word for ‘forbidden by Islam’. Whatever the word, avoid molluscs of any sort as they are great filter feeders and most prolific where there are none too sanitary outfalls from cities such as Johor Bahru.(JB).
Probably best if you make sure you tell your GP where you are going and get the appropriate Hepatitis jabs in addition to anti-malaria. On that latter score I personally avoid all the mefloquine varieties (was a UK GP favourite) as it is well known to cause depression and other mood nasties. As HuffPost states it is a neurotoxic! Both my wife and I had very nasty side-effects from it. UK GPs are generally not on the ball with this problem, so beware and read around the subject of anti-malarials
There are lots of places on that peninsular that are within a day-trip of KL, or do you mean within KL itself, or do you mean the whole peninsular?
I spent long enough in Singapore to be able to get permanent residence so I know KL fairly well, but to give a reasonably concise answer I would need to know your general interests e.g. cultural, sightseeing, history, photography etc.
If your question is the Malay Peninsular in general then you would need to hire a car and travel around a bit. (The roads are generally very good, the other drivers not — bribery to pass the driving test was not unknown !)
Note my opinions are now nearly 20 years out of date, and things change especially city centre traffic density (now fairly horrible I believe).
[edit] Cheating a bit, this link is pretty good for the usual touristy things. If you are interested in tech I’d ask a taxi driver to take you to Lo Yat Plaza. In all shopping markets be prepared to bargain like crazy and pretend to be an expat rather than an easy meat tourist.
My first link includes a lot of Street Food experiences. Do try and be cautious about where you eat. KL is mid-way between super safe and hygenic Singapore and Bankok where street food can be a real problem. Avoid ‘harm’, Malay lingo for clams it is really well named and can give you a nasty bout of hepatitis A -Just say ‘no harm’ in any serving of Laksa.
If sampling the food do try and sample both Penang and (my favourite) Peranakan food. To give your stomach a healthy start try and get a glass of Lassi on your first evening. The friendly bugs in this yoghurt-based drink really do help.
Get him to try Libreoffice that has full compatibility and is free,
I agree with Drezha, back in the 90s when I spent more time travelling on planes than at home, weight was the premium item. Only auditors got lumbered with the really heavy 5kg+ bricks (we had to slow them down somehow!) .
My own preferred piece of travel kit in those days was a <1kg Toshiba Libretto – heaven knows how I managed huge spreadsheets on a 6 inch screen – my eyes must have been 500% better than they are today! That said iirc the Toshiba bricks for the auditors only had a screen size of ~12 inches. Everyone must have had really sharp vision in those days.
The other advantage with the Libretto was the battery life, full charge plus a spare (small) battery pack took me right across the Pacific giving me at least an extra 6 hours to get ahead of the game.
Our boiler is starting to play up. (cretinous design has a fan sitting in the exhaust gas stream – mms out in fixing and the damned bearings fail i.e replace every couple of years). Now got fingers crossed that it will survive until the fan can be replaced – as usual two call-out charges – bah!
Too late to comment, but I would have taken her to a PC World outlet and let her look at the full range of makes and sizes. My wife thought that she wanted a large screen laptop until she got to play with a 13 inch screen then she decided weight and the i/o (keyboard feel, mouse pad function and or touch screen were) the most important elements.
In the end she settled on a Lenova MIIX that was on special (not at PCWorld), and loves its pad/laptop functionality.
Most of the common coins on eBay only seem to command scrap value – even the old silver joeys of Christmas Pudding fame are only worth scrap silver prices. I think you probably need uncirculated mint coins to get anything like the rumoured couple of hundred pounds for modern coins.
A mate of mine went that way. Spent too long in the Army (iCorps) imo, as when he came out he had been institutionalised for most of his life and was like a duck out of water. Soon turned to booze, and died from a blood vessel bursting in his throat. At that time (late eighties) there was very little post service support for settling back into civi life.
Just press the reset button?
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