SSD & RAM prices have gone crazy. 990 Pro 2 TB SSD: bought for 19,900 in July 2024 (~$200 today) & current price is 63,799 (~$672). 32 GB x4 RAM bought for 9500 ($100 each) in May 2025, current market rates are 39,900 ($420 each).

I'm headed to IndiaFOSS in BLR Sept 26-27 & hoping to catch up with Derek. Join us: fossunited.org/indiafoss/202…

One of my favourite usecases for @claudeai Cowork is to have it investigate whatever goes wrong with my work laptop & suggest fixes. Have used to debug a browser crash issue when initiating a screen share, battery drain issue on a new laptop etc & it's super efficient!

Finally bit the bullet & upgraded to X Premium . Mostly for Grok Build & the ad free experience.

New guy who dis? Early gift from the wifey.

Have to drop the monthly AI budget to $200. Wondering, -> $200 GPT -> $100 GPT $100 Claude -> $100 Claude 2x $20 GPT $60 on APIs -> $100 GPT $20 Claude $80 on APIs They're all hobby projects & AI learning. Not monetized (I might do it in the future). Any tips?

Have to drop the monthly AI budget to $200. Should I get, -> $200 GPT -> $100 GPT $100 Claude -> $100 Claude 2x $20 GPT $60 on APIs -> $100 GPT $20 Claude $80 on APIs They're all hobby projects & AI learning. Not monetized (I might do it in the future). Any tips?

Have to drop the monthly AI budget to $200. Wondering -> $200 GPT -> $100 GPT $100 Claude -> $100 Claude 2x $20 GPT $60 on APIs -> $100 GPT $20 Claude $80 on APIs They're all hobby projects & AI learning. Not monetized (I might do it in the future). Any tips?

Have to drop the monthly AI budget to $200. Wondering, -> $200 GPT -> $100 GPT $100 Claude -> $100 Claude 2x $20 GPT $60 on APIs -> $100 GPT $20 Claude $80 on APIs They're all hobby projects & AI learning. Not monetized (I might do it in the future). Any tips?

Just ran a fairly heavy @claudeai Cowork task that analyzes ~300 support conversations 50-100 Linear tickets via Intercom and Linear MCPs, builds an HTML report, & emails it. Previously it used to take ~50% of my 5h usage & >10% of weekly usage (5x max). It's 12% & 5% now. It looks like Claude's limit-related issues are healing.

Read this story. Carefully. CBSE called for OSM tenders thrice. Zero bids the first time. No qualified bidder the second time. And finally, the technical bar was lowered until COEMPT could clear it. Scanning resolution cut. Robotic scanner requirement dropped. CMMI certification lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. Penalties for errors in answer sheets removed. TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified in the third round too. TCS lost. COEMPT - a company with a spectacular track record of failure - won. And what are CBSE students complaining about today? Badly scanned answer sheets. Missing pages. A broken evaluation portal. Teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM system needed at least a year or two for further preparation before nationwide implementation, yet it was rushed through. So I ask again - who wanted COEMPT to win? Who lowered the bar, step by step, until this company could clear it? Pradhan ji and CBSE say “due process was followed.” That is not an answer, that is not accountability. The question is whether the contract was honestly awarded to the best company which could do the job correctly. The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a company that could only qualify after the rules were bent for it. To the BJP Ministers attacking me for asking questions - I have, from day one, demanded an independent judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to every contract awarded to COEMPT. Our youth deserve the truth. And Modi ji, your silence on the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the country what you actually care about - not the futures of lakhs of students, only the survival of your own government.

My experiences from applying for UK Visa in 2018 & 2019 & Schengen in 2025 & 2026: UK 2018: Premium lounge pushed & taken since it was my first time applying for a visa on my own UK 2019: Pushed very hard for Premium lounge, refused since I had all the time in the world that day. Schengen 2025: Pushed premium lounge for Greece citing long delays. Had to get back to work within 3 hours so ended up taking it to get out on time. Colleagues who came with me didn't & they got out only an hour later. Schengen 2026: Pushed premium lounge heavily again for Denmark saying regular lounge might take all day & will also take couple of extra days for them to send the application over to embassy while Premium lounge ensures faster processing. So I finally ended up taking it because I needed to submit my application same day & wanted it back ASAP. VFS also charged for SMS & courier separately citing that the rules are set by Danish embassy & not them (though 0 SMS alerts received and cost was 1.5x of Greece), made me wait for 30-40 mins before someone finally attended to my application inside premium lounge. I step outside & realised that in the entire time (~2 hours from when I went in to exiting premium lounge), not even 1 token had moved for Denmark in the regular queue. They said no staff for regular & were pushing those waiting outside (just like they did with me) to take premium lounge. @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress

Hot take: @claudeai peaked with Opus 4.5. Subsequent models have all been underwhelming. Dunno where they fumbled.

I'm glad this terrible company is under the radar for profiteering. Their value added services are almost always forced

Good old days of Android. Rooting, Lucky patcher, Freedom, custom ROMs, overclocking - all of them died or lost their charm at some point. Peak days of CyanogenMod & AOSP. Was also the days when devs actually cared about engineering apps

Random gem I found. This is why I'm not leaving this app. Interesting people doing interesting stuff that inspires, educates, and pushes me.

If there's one thing CSK fans can learn from RCB fans, it's standing by your team & its captain. Captaining a franchise like CSK is no easy job. One or two bad seasons & we're ready to drag Rutu through the stakes. RCB fans stood strong by their team in their bad days & earned the right to celebrate their wins. We are losing it

Introducing Pokemon movies to my son before he turns 5 is one of my top milestones as a father so far. Sad I couldn't get him to like Harry Potter movies. Hoping to get him addicted to the books.