u/ishereanthere

I signed up last night for light plan.

During signup it asked for my name. I notice a note on the side saying "This doesn't need to be your real name click here to learn more"

I click there and it is 404 / nothing.

So I use "Admin Account" as my first and last names.

Go to pay with credit card (12 euro). It doesn't ask for my name or billing address. Only card number, expiry and security code. My banks regular verification thing pops up. I choose to verify in the bank app instead of SMS. Then on the payment flow in mailbox my banks verification thing say "error please try again later". However in the app it seems fine. I select "yes" to approve the payment and it says it was successful.

Now it's 12 hours later. I am trying to see whether the interface received payment or not and i'm finding this interface really confusing.

Just a simple receipt or confirmation email is all I need. I see neither. In this case then I would expect to see an invoice invoicing me for the payment under the invoices section. However there is nothing there.

"Contract" says I am on trial.

"Change plan" says I am currently on the light 1 euro plan. Contract end date next month.

"Payment" comes up with options to pay 12 euros.

"Invoices" - "Currently no invoices exist".

My bank shows no payment made but this is often delayed for days anyway.

I would have expected either an invoice or a receipt. As I am writing this though I am wondering if there is no invoice because it still sees me as on trial plan?

Also noticing in this subreddit quite a few posts about unreliability and poor experiences that I didn't see before. Can people share whether their experience has been good or not.

Hotmail / Live recently started sending me emails about "Age Verification" so I am jumping ship. It was a minimally used account anyway. More of a secondary account for where you need to provide backup eails for github, proton etc. However I do use custom email in Proton and was also looking to evaluate alternatives should I need to switch one day.

Still confused about the name not needing to be a real name yet are they matching this to your card information? That's the only reason I can think of for my payment issue.

Been in Thailand around 15 years. Had some tutoring a bit before and somewhere along the line have managed to mostly teach myself to speak, read and type Thai.

Spent a few years working and speaking Thai in workplaces with little English and in those early years put in more of a focused effort on learning and learnt quite fast.

I feel for the last 6 or 8 years I have plateaued a bit and if I put in a dedicated effort for 6 months I could level up from intermediate to advanced.

In my mind I can read, speak, type but it is vocabulary that limits me in everyday conversation although I manage quite well when I need to. Vocabulary and making more of an effort to speak Thai everyday is something I feel I need to focus on.

Years ago I had a close friend start to teach me live and dead syllables and it was going really well but then I moved away and years later when I came back she had moved away.

I wonder how important or beneficial learning this properly could be? To be honest as far as what tone rules are applied to what consonants I would struggle to say.

I have often asked Thais about this and many have said they don't even understand it themselves. Which reminds me of myself when Thais ask me about nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. I just speak English and never really took all these things on board or took the time to understand them myself.

I'm about to hire a tutor again and dive in but I wonder if I should abandon my desire to master this live and dead syllable thing or learn it. To be honest I don't know why I want to, it just seems kind of fundamental and I thought it may really deepen my understanding of Thai and help me get past this plateau.

Can people tell me how important it is. If It's a waste of time or I should just forget it. If it has helped them etc. Does it help with understanding tone rules?

I also have a thought that perhaps some tutors might struggle to teach this or steer me away from it given how many Thais have told me they don't actually understand it themselves.

Probably just a case of finding the right tutor.

Thank you

I messed up when I signed up for Tailscale and chose Github (Microsoft with a mask) when I should have chosen OICD.

I understand the reasons behind Tailscale offering these shitty big tech providers as sign in options and it makes great sense.

From what I can see it is also not possible to change the way you sign in in the settings.

So my questions are any open feature requests or plans to implement this?

Any workarounds?

Can opening a support ticket help?

From what I can tell self hosting an IDP on a server that relies on tailscale to be accessed is a nightmare waiting to happen as well.

Tearing down my whole network and setting it up again, editing configs, compose files etc is a bit of a hassle.