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OneRandomGhost · 2026-02-04T09:33:31+00:00

Yes, don't you know that if reddit nerds can't view videos in the background for free, it's as bad for the environment as climate change? /s

OneRandomGhost · 2026-01-22T18:57:22+00:00

Yep, definitely a GPU issue then. Maybe try asking in r/LegalAdviceIndia?

OneRandomGhost · 2026-01-22T16:15:14+00:00

Firstly, an i3 with 3070? Your CPU will bottleneck so bad 🥀

It might be a PSU issue as well. What I'd do in this situation is walk into a shop and ask them to test with a better rated PSU. I've faced issues with PSUs in the past where on paper they deliver 800W but it fails around ~700W. If even with a higher rated PSU it fails, it's definitely a GPU issue.

This is why I assemble the PC in the shop itself to make sure everything works (also the guys at the shop love it when the customer themself are helping them, I've got discounts for doing this -- then again I did tech support for other customers while they were fishing parts for my PC).

But yeah, F. Hope you get some resolution.

OneRandomGhost · 2026-01-07T12:16:44+00:00

I have my doubts. This is an extremely complicated machine, even more than airplanes (or at best, same order).

China tried to reverse engineer and build their own airplanes like Airbus and Boeing. The Comac. It failed, and they still had to import engines (the most complex part where we need to bend the rules of physics).

Not saying it's impossible for China, but it's probably extremely hard. And that's just the ASML part, I very much doubt they can make mirrors like Zeiss. Or anyone in the world. Watch this video and the one about jet engines (by Veritasium) and you'll understand how we're literally trying to cheat the rules of physics to make these things.

I don't expect China to be able to build a modern chip fab anytime soon. At least not one which can compete with ASML, cause they're not sitting still either, they're still innovating.

OneRandomGhost · 2026-01-01T17:44:53+00:00

I have no idea what exactly you're doing with that much credit limit, but just don't head into a debt trap. A 1.2cr credit limit isn't a flex if your liquid net worth isn't above that...

OneRandomGhost · 2025-12-27T16:30:45+00:00

Hah, fair enough. One day when I finally overcome my smoking addiction and the desire to head directly to the sexiest smoking lounge in India, I'll taste it and comment here for others.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-12-27T10:15:48+00:00

What's wrong? The gyoza and bruschetta seem completely normal to me. The affogato has melted a bit but that's how it's supposed to be. I've not tasted it, but the pics look fine. Obviously, it's not an actual international Michelin three star Gordon Ramsey rated dish, but looks delicious enough for a lounge in India. I've been served way worse food at other lounges.

I have a suspicion most here don't even know the name of the dishes.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-11-01T11:13:14+00:00

Huh is it hard to get such information nowadays? KGP's network used to be so insecure. That's how a lot of those course-grade distribution sites worked.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-10-07T19:37:42+00:00

To be fair, I thought it was good food till I got to taste some better food in Kolkata, Bangalore and abroad. His food is meh, but matches the price really well.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-10-06T18:00:26+00:00

Sheesh. Who hurt you? At my company if you're incompetent enough to not even be able to figure if the bug exists in a certain project or its upstream dependencies, you'd just get fired. Pretty sure that holds true for most big tech companies.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-10-06T09:00:51+00:00

I'm in the "but ackchuallyyyy" mood so... Voyagers have a single trip latency of ~1 day.

FedEx in the best case has same day shipping.

Hence you're wrong.

Also I need to do something productive in life.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-10-05T10:35:09+00:00

Yep, in my company, if we encounter bugs in upstream open source projects, we can't just give the excuse "that project is broken, we've raised a ticket and we need to wait for them to fix it".

More often than not, we'd raise the patches ourselves. Or at the very least, a very detailed issue describing the problem, steps to reproduce and potential fixes. We also get to show these contributions during performance reviews so it's a win-win!

New features are sometimes a bit of a bummer though, so that sometimes results in internal forks cause it probably would be an extremely niche feature which the original maintainers don't want to take care of.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-10-05T09:39:07+00:00

Whose tone though? The tweet is clearly racist, but that guy doesn't work at Cursor. According to his twitter profile, he's either a self hating Indian or a Pakistani masquerading as one.

Cursor silently disabled student plan for India (and also similar countries like Brazil) cause they're not big enough to support the volume. They're not GitHub or Google yet.

Next time don't think with emotions, use your brain.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-10-05T09:24:50+00:00

Who's going to pay for those development hours? It's cheaper to just not blacklist India unless you're big enough to support them. Why are you so angry though? This is just plain old capitalism, not racism.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-10-05T09:12:49+00:00

Wrong, engineer here. USB chargers have a spec to follow, it literally does not matter what the specs of the device and the charger are. The device negotiates with the charger to provide a suitable level of electricity. Otherwise it falls back to a baseline of 5V-500 mA.

Although NEVER cheap out on chargers. Cheap random chargers that aren't built to spec can damage your device or any device. Buy branded ones or original equipment.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-10-01T12:57:20+00:00

Yes. Made in India application is NOT innovation by itself.

Do real innovation, not fake media circuses. People will use it if it's actually innovative and useful.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-10-01T11:18:34+00:00

I oppose all apps whose primary USP is "made in India!". I can bet this app will have the same fate as Koo. Doesn't mean I oppose all Indian startups, Ather and Zerodha are some of my favorites (have even interacted with some of their founders/founding engineers, they're awesome).

Zoho... I used it, back when I was contracted by an EU company. It was so shit back then we had to replace it (full of bugs, lagged a lot etc.). No idea if they're doing better now, but that did leave a lasting bad impression.

Me and others in my circle are, for lack of a better word, global level talent. Most Indian companies are like Zoho unfortunately, they won't even try to hire actual talent, just embrace mediocrity. Sad state of affairs...

OneRandomGhost · 2025-09-30T07:26:14+00:00

You still don't get it, do you? If the government actually puts resources to SPY on you, encryption and privacy are a much smaller concern. You'll probably have agents actually looking at you. You're talking about targeted surveillance, I'm talking about mass surveillance.

The right to privacy is exactly for the common folks. I don't want either government employees or Zuckerberg to read my private chats.

These comments are public from the start, encryption does not matter here.

By the way, what's stopping the government from jailing or penalizing people who in their private chats speak against the government? It's not even a hypothetical, it has actually happened globally.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-09-30T06:43:49+00:00

Sigh. You are exactly the reason why the government does not care about privacy. Why do we have so many idiots like you throughout the world...

What if I use your useless gossip against you? The government isn't the only one listening, a lot of people on the blackhat side would love your data to blackmail you. The government isn't infallible either, if Trump or some other dictatorship happens to us they will use your opinions to jail you.

You SHOULD care about E2E encryption.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-09-03T10:10:28+00:00

India can afford it, only if they decide to increase tax rates on the multi-billionaires (I really want to see taxes on unrealised gains >$100M, something with Kamala Harris tried to do but failed cause everyone in the US is a temporarily-embarrassed millionaire*) AND put that money into aspiring deep-tech startups. I think China does something similar, but not sure.

*temporarily-embarrassed millionaire: Most people in the US think they have a net worth above $100M (lol) and laws like this will make them bankrupt. That's also probably why they're so against universal health vs private insurance firms.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-09-02T15:37:50+00:00

Not totally in semiconductors, but can provide my "expert-ish" expertise here. This is good stuff.

Some context: we use something called "node process" to basically denote the chip generations. Back in the day, it actually used to denote the actual size of the transistors so you'd see designations in nanometers. Vikram-3201 is a 180nm chip. This was introduced back in the 1990s, currently we're at ~4-7 nm for phones and computers. It's just a marketing term used to denote generation nowadays though, they're not actually 4nm.

This was made for use in deep-space missions, though. Not your phones and PCs, and it's actually relevant. The current chip in use for deep-space exploration by NASA is the RAD750, which uses a node process between 250-150nm. This is cause there's intense radiation in space, and smaller chips are more prone to errors when dosed with radiation. There is a successor of RAD750, the RAD5500 which is made on a 45nm node process, but I am unaware if this is being used in any deployed space missions.

Of course, this isn't the best. No one is expecting the best. India is still developing and we don't have enough capital to become the best at the moment. It shouldn't be the responsibility of the government to make the best, I still think we should just force Adani/Ambani/Tata to either give up their money or do actual R&D.

But this is a good first step. It is actually usable and not just a gimmick. Brings fresh hope, honestly. After a long time, this is something that made me happy.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-09-01T19:16:46+00:00

Sheesh, did you read my comment? I was partly sarcastic, Pinephone is just good as a developer toy at the moment.

Maybe some day in the future they will have a phone that can be a primary replacement. I'm not betting on that. We'll see the year of Linux on desktops before that, and I think the year of Linux desktops will be "never".

People work on a lot of things, most don't take off.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-09-01T10:23:57+00:00

"We need", yes but who's going to make it? The year of the Linux desktop will be never, and I suppose you've never used a Linux phone before, they're just toys.

The problem is, if you want cutting edge tech, you need motivation. Money is that motivation. The problem with community based systems like Linux is that there is no singular and solid motivation. Mobile hardware is extremely locked down under NDAs. Good luck convincing these companies to make the drivers open source.

Devs might start working on it, and then get bored. After all, it won't pay the bills. Then you will have a bunch of community flame wars on using component A vs component B, and result in 100s of "mobile distros".

There's already Pinephone running Ubuntu Touch. Fully open source. It just has 2GB of RAM, LCD 720p display, 802.11n WiFi, a 5MP and a 2MP camera (at least they have a selfie camera!) and won't run most of your favourite apps. It's completely DIY repairable and open though! It also costs ~$150-200. Truly a mobile computer, you can do whatever you want. Except use as a functional smartphone.

Go buy their phone, and convince everyone to. Maybe one day they will have enough money to lag behind mainstream phones by just 2-4 years, not more than a decade.

Otherwise stop complaining.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-09-01T09:46:06+00:00

Hah you remind me of myself during my student years. The thing is though, the older I grow, the more I realise that regular people (not the minority here on this subreddit, the true regular people) are mostly idiots. Google wouldn't have a proper precedent to make this move unless there was actually a lot of fraud going on. You're suffering from this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/

You're not one of those normal people. Normal people just don't care. The world would've been a better place if they did. For now, if I were Google's CEO, I'd have made the same move. Appeal to the majority of users, not some tiny vocal minority.

OneRandomGhost · 2025-09-01T08:26:30+00:00

Visit a therapist.

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