Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭

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Born and raised in #Belgium 🇧🇪. Retired early 2020 from long career in software #development and #architecture, last 10y at #Microsoft.

Migrated to #Thailand 🇹🇭 with wife & dog at the end of 2020 and living happily in Khon Kaen, a city in the eastern #Isan region of #Thailand.

Staying busy with keeping coding skills up to date, visiting interesting places in Thailand, eating and learning to cook Thai food, and learning to speak and read Thai.

I host https://sea-mstdn.social

Pixelfedhttps://pixelfed.social/@patrickv
Bloghttps://blog.patrickv.be
LocationKhon Kaen, Thailand
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Apr 9, 2023
Linux Mint on my 3y old Dell XPS 15. Runs like greased lightning!
#shareyourdesktop #linux #linuxmint
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Apr 4, 2023
In good Buddhist tradition, we had our car blessed by a monk in #Thailand today.
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Mar 31, 2023

People often ask how long you need to live in #Thailand before you “acclimatise” and get used to the combination of heat and humidity of the hot season.
My answer is very simple. I’ve been living here now for 2,5 years, and I still sweat just as much as on the first day.

The difference between now and then is that now I don’t care anymore 😀

Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Mar 31, 2023
Installing a software update on an #Apple Watch is a stupid process. The watch must be on the charger. iPhone must be in range. You have to keep the watch app on the phone open during download & verification or it never ends. You have to wait for the update to be sent to the watch, then it has to be installed on the watch, both of which take ages.
But yeah, it’s from that company that values user experience over everything else, right? #Apple knows best, and we should never question that…
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Mar 31, 2023
timothyMar 31, 2023

Some #ThaiLanguage vocabulary from taken from a Thai Rath (media) online story this morning:

จ่ายเงินปิดปาก to pay hush money
- จ่าย pay
- เงิน money
- ปิด to close
- ปาก mouth

คณะลูกขุนใหญ่ grand jury
- คณะ council
- ลูกขุน jury
- ใหญ่ large

ตั้งข้อหาคดีอาญา criminally indict
- ตั้ง to lay down
- ข้อหา charges
- คดี legal case
- อาญา criminal (adj.)

อัยการ prosecutor

ทนายความ lawyer

#ภาษาไทย #ไทยรัฐ #คำศัพท์ #language

Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Mar 29, 2023
BkkGregMar 29, 2023
Also interesting - the Puffy-coat Pope was the first time I've (knowingly) just accepted an image as real and later found out it's generated by AI. We're all gonna need to re-train ourselves to have "Yeah right, prove it" as the default reaction to anything we see online.
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Mar 29, 2023

@eucopresident Care to explain yourself, Mr. Michel?

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-presidents-charles-michel-ursula-von-der-leyen-private-jet-climate-talks/

EU chiefs flew to UN climate talks in private jet

European Council President Charles Michel hopped on a private jet for 72 of 112 official trips.

POLITICO
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Mar 28, 2023

I sincerely feel for non-binary people in the US right now. I hope I’m wrong but I’m suspecting a wave of bigotry and hatred even bigger than what you usually must endure may be coming to hit you all.

Stay safe!

Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Mar 28, 2023

When I create a list on #Mastodon and add accounts (to whom I'm already subscribed) to it, is it by design that those list are empty and only new toots from those users are added?

What's the rationale behind this?

Why am I not seeing those lists populated with the toots of those users that are already on my server?
#mastoadmin #mastoadmins

Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Mar 28, 2023
DgarMar 28, 2023
The artist formerly known as Prince.