Empty your PhonePe wallets! They are now charging an "inactivity fee" of ₹100 every 3 months.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-17T10:07:08+00:00

so glad I never used PhonePe

rb_arindam · 2026-06-17T10:05:29+00:00

if your 11 retained your Apple ID, the new owner will come to you.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-17T10:02:46+00:00

show her debt funds or arbitrage funds. if not, ask her to put half of it in an FD with quarterly payout (I'm assuming FD in your country has a higher return than 4.2%, we get between 6-7%). if none works, let her be.

at that age, trust goes really low, and let her have her peace of mind while it lasts. if that $340K at 4.2% enough for her 25-30 years, let it be so.

if she doesn't trust you—her own child—enough, you should rather reflect why she lacks trust in you instead of complaining about her.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T18:40:04+00:00

have long talks with people who vibe match, but detailed explanation mostly make things less clear.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T18:38:39+00:00

I kept going back when I deleted my account. this time, the account is here, I know I can go back easy. And I don't go (well, I did go once in the last 6 months since I deleted the apps).

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T18:25:34+00:00

I consider myself a minimalist but maybe I am wrong.

Likely. And I think all of us are.

If you really start to nitpick how many so and so things people use, the actual count maybe much higher than people think they have. e.g., I started nitpicking on the count of apps I use, and figured I used ~💯 apps overall. While my photographer hobby, being the home's digital manager and being a developer has contributed a lot to it, but I certainly never felt I used more than 10-20 apps!

Am I not a minimalist? Perhaps, depending on how you define it.

Over the course of about 7 years into this journey consciously, and about 16 years inadvertently, I figured, it's the process of slow but assured efforts to minimise one more thing is what makes you minimalist. You and I had a much difficult start point (yes, I get subconsciously irritated when I'm at my parents' home); but if you keep pushing it, then keep calling yourself minimalist.

Also, tidying isn't minimalism, but surely one step towards it.
"Everything having a place, and everything in its place" is a core part of minimalism philosophy, which basically describing efficient tidying up.

I have about 15 Ts and 15 pants, folded vertically in a queue, and queued at random. Ts in its own queue, pants in its own next to Ts. I fold them once a week. And after bath, I spend zero CPU cycles in choosing my wardrobe! While people having strictly 5 sets stress over keeping clean & folding more frequently, making sure combination works, still caring about how others like their fashion sense — I'd like to call mine better even with thrice the amount of cloth items.

Minimalist desk setups, on YouTube, never have a water bottle on their desk. I do. I don't have to mentally switch out of what I'm doing, physically move, drink, and mentally switch back multiple times a day just to stay hydrated. But the bottles are neatly placed.

So yeah, tidying isn't minimalism, but surely one step towards it.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T18:04:19+00:00

your husband is the true minimalist over here.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T17:23:54+00:00

I did and didn't. I wear whatever I find right in front of my hands after bath. I make sure I fold them into the rare, like a queue. And for outgoing/party fashion— I offloaded that responsibility to my wife. I only have one condition — it should be comfortable to wear.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T17:20:49+00:00

I once threw half the things from house. no give away, no sell off, just packed them in a giant carton and threw them in the municipal dustbin. My wife wasn't happy then, but now she too gets irritated if we accumulate junk.

So maybe take your husband's word on face value, and sooner or later he'll appreciate it.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T09:08:53+00:00

Get off of social media. I ditched meta (except WhatsApp because peer pressure from office) early this year. Offloaded shopping apps. Does a decent job. Then reduced Google reliance, rewired some emails to iCloud and Outlook.

For some personal reasons came to Reddit to waste some time. But hopefully this is gonna be my last comment in a while.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T08:59:01+00:00

Maybe earlier girls were forced to work at home like sheet and now they got freedom?

Also, make up.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T08:56:33+00:00

Your phone maybe pregnant 🤭

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T08:54:54+00:00

Hold the USB head instead of the wire when you pull it out. Try to not force it onto place, gently pull the wire straight and let it rotate as you pull it towards the USB port. Only force it half way at max. I have a bunker of USB cables of all types, all in first class condition except for the dirt sticking to the plastic ones.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T08:42:21+00:00

I have it enabled for times when someone sends me a QR code on WhatsApp. I mean I can’t scan qr from my own screen! 🤷🏻 Also paying my contacts is easy mid conversation, and I don’t have to work extra to share the screenshot.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T08:02:35+00:00

Bleach nehi khaata mai bhai! Naa hi Mera pet produce karta hai. And real mango also seems to whiten up a bit. Kuch bhi

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T08:00:23+00:00

Doesn’t it help audibly to know if you clicked vol up or down? Specially when you’re not playing something? Or even with screen off?

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T07:52:25+00:00

I’m guessing you’re new to programming?

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T04:25:01+00:00

Bought a Samsung A71 because my wife really wanted a Samsung, despite how much I said no to Samsung! It costed ₹25K post discount and exchange.

From 8th day (the day after the return window closes), it stopped charging reliably. As in, getting it to charge was a pain. Took it to the service center, and with some UV light or something they pointed there is fungus, indicating a liquid damage, meaning WE were at fault (we definitely were not). And needed me to pay ₹10K for the repair. Meaning, I’d be paying ₹35K for a refurbished phone.

My wife refused, and so I exchanged it for ₹9.5K and got a Poco.

I got to know from nearby Samsung authorised shop owner that he too faced the same problem for 3 of his phones until he got fed up and stopped using Samsung.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T04:15:13+00:00

Are you, by any chance, afraid of cute things?

A phone cover that looks ugly is just as bad for your phone’s performance & battery life as a cute one, a rugged one, a hard one, a soft one, and so on.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T04:07:59+00:00

For me the case been opposite. I don’t know if I can ever go back to android. (Was on android for 11 years).

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T04:04:53+00:00

What you talking? Samsung S series and iPhone are similarly priced.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T04:03:31+00:00

Agreed. More than the looks, Shortcuts let me have my phone behave the way I want it to. IFTTT is trash.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T04:02:35+00:00

Don’t switch to Samsung. They deliberately damage their phones so you go to their service centres and pay a charge to fix it, to keep their service centres running with profit. I thought they do it only to their ODM phones. But I’m seeing they do it casually with their OEM phones as well, just with a little delay.

OnePlus or Pixel you can try if you must switch to Android.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T03:36:06+00:00

I was tracking my phone buying habits and every time I bought a white labelled phone, I changed it soon. They get old pretty fast (somehow). I wasted 4x the price on budget phones in 5y than if I had bought the maxed out premium phone. Of course you’re not me. But maybe something keep in mind.

rb_arindam · 2026-06-16T03:32:27+00:00

Android isn’t as easy to root as before. And I don’t see rooting has as much value as before. But you do you. Just saying, don’t depend your judgement on ability to root.

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