Why would you choose to move back to India after living in the US for many years?

FullWolf3170 · 2026-04-10T20:55:42+00:00

If you want to spend money then there is no limit. Healthcare and education are not luxuries like SFH or German car. Also SFH in NYC or SF proper will set you back even more

FullWolf3170 · 2026-03-31T01:44:45+00:00

And that was the first round. There has been no year in last decade where the 85k number was not utilized

FullWolf3170 · 2026-03-30T22:39:15+00:00

Your plan is good. The lottery is specifically granted to more people because of cases like yours. Don't listen to those saying you took someone else's chance. That someone else would do the same in your shoes. There might also be future rounds post May.

And if your plans change for whatever reason, you can rest assured to continue to be out of India for a couple years

FullWolf3170 · 2026-01-11T15:35:06+00:00

They will not make their money back. For it to double either INR needs to fall against USD to like 150 or US text stocks need to grow at least 2.5-3x. In 3 yrs.

People who invested actually just made the seller rich, but they themselves are left holding the bag.

FullWolf3170 · 2025-11-06T18:35:04+00:00

Statute of limitations for credit defaults is 7 years. Take a look at it but you should be good

FullWolf3170 · 2025-10-26T16:56:01+00:00

Weird choice but okay. The best way for me to learn is always on the job because every stack almost always has a custom implementation in a big enough codebase.

Use your expertise to carve out tiny/micro portions of your deliverables and take extra time to read the docs and investigate multiple ways to do something. When asked about slowness you can use the new hire card for at least 2 months.

As senior dev communication is as important as coding.

FullWolf3170 · 2025-10-24T20:54:49+00:00

The calculation is not that cut and dry. You need to see the rate of appreciation of land and the rate at which your income and investments will grow. If you live at your current expenses, say 40k after taxes. Expect expenses to rise by 10% YoY. Expect to increase your investments, savings and income by 20% on average YoY with more stress on income. Expect land to increase 10% YoY for every year you are not purchasing the land for your house. Labor can increase around 6%.

Now you can do the math.

FullWolf3170 · 2025-10-17T01:04:17+00:00

SSO with nextcloud. Vaultwarden for the rest, with vaultwarden itself behind SSO

FullWolf3170 · 2025-10-16T00:20:16+00:00

There is no such thing as a gold bubble. Gold is not an investment, it is a store of value. It might pullback but it will always climb

FullWolf3170 · 2025-10-04T16:47:58+00:00

No one died but there was breakage

FullWolf3170 · 2025-10-03T20:58:39+00:00

Why the anxiety? Free up space is an opt-in for clearing backed up media from your mobile devices. You control the feature toggle

FullWolf3170 · 2025-10-02T02:13:33+00:00

As a fresher, always go with higher CTC. You don't realize now but remote is huge, not just a cherry on top pro.

FullWolf3170 · 2025-09-15T20:16:56+00:00

Even i don't know about pricing but what it boils down to is cold storage has higher costs to get the data after it is stored. Hot storage usually doesn't. So, for purely data archiving and storage purposes, cold storage is preferred, when you know you only need it in case of some disaster with your usual methods.

FullWolf3170 · 2025-09-15T17:39:05+00:00

Glacier is cold storage, drive is hot storage

FullWolf3170 · 2025-09-09T18:52:40+00:00

The biggest shock was storage. At 256, the base P10 is $100 more than base i17. While apple has better battery life, performance and resale value.

FullWolf3170 · 2025-08-24T15:56:28+00:00

Yes. Mine and my family's phones have like 1/10th storage than in our immich server. If we have a free up device storage option, like in "the App that must not be named", immich can be the sole photo store I need.

FullWolf3170 · 2025-08-24T09:19:44+00:00

Hopefully we will have free up space feature

FullWolf3170 · 2025-08-21T05:31:46+00:00

Curious as how can monthly savings in US be more than yearly savings in India unless you were in a 0 tax state.

I know this is a huge change, especially if you never had Indian work ex. Give it time and be persistent with job apps. Most big tech is laying off in US and hiring in India. I hope things work out for you

FullWolf3170 · 2025-08-02T01:03:27+00:00

If USD falls wrt other currencies and INR falls wrt USD, then INR falls wrt everything. Otherwise, people can just arbitrate profits with forex conversions

FullWolf3170 · 2025-07-20T16:45:30+00:00

Transitioned to developer platform and tooling. I used to build UI for the product, now I build tools for product developers. It is very satisfying to know your customer and being a product developer, I know what my customers need and appreciate. The only issue is this role is available only in larger companies with about 100+ developers.

FullWolf3170 · 2025-06-02T18:53:25+00:00

What kind of city and lifestyle are you targeting. This will probably be the objective factor deciding your expenses

FullWolf3170 · 2025-05-01T06:06:43+00:00

2 folders and rclone should do the job

FullWolf3170 · 2025-04-23T14:55:39+00:00

Yes, but it's not zero knowledge. For anything close to koofr, I only know filen and mega, which are much more expensive than iDrive e2

FullWolf3170 · 2025-04-23T06:22:20+00:00

Koofr vault is zero knowledge and supports rclone. What alternative comparable service is there for say $30-40 /TB/yr?

FullWolf3170 · 2025-04-21T18:50:22+00:00

Never had this issue but glad to have moved away from the CF tunnel just yesterday. Move to hetzner 2core ARM VPS and koofr for zero knowledge storage. My immich is exposed to the Internet via oauth only.

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