Programming and Life
In August 2024, my Asus Strix G15 laptop conked out after almost three years of heavy usage. I have an extended warranty, so I called Asus, and they said they d send a technician to diagnose and fix the laptop. I knew this would take at least three to four weeks, so I brushed off the [ ] The post Running Fedora Asahi Linux on an M1 MacBook Pro 16 appeared first on The Curly Braces .
Towards the end of April 2024, I drove my Nexon EV Max from Mahura, Bhubaneswar, Odisha to Kalimpong, West Bengal, about 1100 km. The passengers were my dog and me, and a lot of luggage, including camping gear. I d say the weight of the passengers and luggage in the car was about 135 kilos. This [ ] The post Driving from Bhubaneswar, Odisha to Yuksom, Sikkim on Tata Nexon EV Max appeared first on…
The Jhumka dam and reservoir are located in the Chandaka forest in Khorda district, Odisha. During the rainy season, it s impossible to hike on the bank of the reservoir, but the rest of the year, the water level subsides and one can have a nice walk along the shore of the lake. The reservoir is [ ] The post Hike around Jhumka dam and reservoir appeared first on The Curly Braces .
Koraput is a town in southern Odisha surrounded by mountains, waterfalls, and forests. We travelled to Koraput from Bhubaneswar on my Tata Nexon EV Max (2022), which has a 40.5 kWh battery that can do around 300-330 km on a single charge. The passengers included my wife, our pet dog and me. We also had [ ] The post Drive to Koraput on Tata Nexon EV Max appeared first on The Curly Braces .
Lately, I ve received numerous emails from new open-source contributors requesting guidance in contributing to Wikimedia software projects. There are a lot of useful resources available, and this post is an effort to gather these resources in one place. Time to get your reading hats on. Some background: I work as a software engineer in the [ ] The post Contributing to Wikimedia software projects…
At the end of the year, I enjoy looking back and reviewing memorable moments from that year. It gives me happiness, a sense of accomplishment and fulfilment. Unfortunately, I ve not been doing a good job of tracking these events. I don t take many photos or write reviews since I don t know where to post them. [ ] The post Lekhan (लेखन) A journaling system appeared first on The Curly Braces .
I like checklists. They give me confidence that I ve covered everything of importance, and if I did miss something, I can go back and update the checklist so that I don t miss it the next time. I recently shifted cities and had to look for a new place to rent. I prepared this checklist to [ ] The post Checklist to rent a house in India appeared first on The Curly Braces .
TLDR; Running the configuration utility xrandr wakes up the dedicated GPU on your machine. This is not a problem on a desktop but running it periodically on a laptop will drain your battery and might have other unintended consequences. The rest of the blog describes the issue I faced due to running xrandr repeatedly, how [ ] The post Running xrandr wakes up the dGPU appeared first on The Curly…
After using my old Asus Vivobook S15 for about 3 and a half years, I bought an Asus Strix G15 Advantage Edition (G513QY) laptop in August 2021. It s an all AMD laptop with a Ryzen 5900HX CPU and Radeon 6800M GPU. I prepared a checklist for things to check and do after I got the laptop. Most [ ] The post Asus Strix G15 Advantage Edition Post buying checklist appeared first on The Curly Braces .
In this blog, we will look at setting up i3 tiling window manager, and a status bar for i3 named i3status-rust. All of this is tested on Debian Bullseye. Some basic understanding of configuring i3 is expected. This is part 2 in a series of 3 blogs regarding setup of Debian Bullseye on a Laptop [ ] The post i3 window manager setup on Debian Bullseye appeared first on The Curly Braces .