My Experience with Dopamine Detox Few days ago i came to realize that from past few months i haven’t had any creative thoughts and i hadn’t done anything new at all. It was all the same, wake up, music, watch movies, videos on youtube, consume consume….. I would spend all my day just consuming information on the internet and not doing any real work. My mind was being stimulated entire day, whether it be with music or youtube videos. i wouldn’t spend a single moment of my day without any kind of stimulation. Sleeping? just play a long youtube video and fall asleep listening to it. Getting ready for college? just play a music playlist in the background. Working out? just play workout playlist. Reading or studying a article? play Lofi music in background. this had a big impact on my creativity and thinking. it was depressing, because when i was younger i was one of the most creative kids among other students in school, here i am being a coomer on the internet doing nothing but consuming online media. I decided to work on my lifestyle, and started dopamine detox, its been a week, and today i am going to share my experience with my dopamine detox. ...

Today i got a faulty 16GB ram from Flipkart. So the RAM i ordered was Crucial 16GB 3200Mhz laptop RAM. It turns out to be faulty and i cant even return it 💀. So here is the story in the format of 4 stages of grief :) Stage 1: Excitement, Happiness. it was 10 am in the morning, i was sleeping. I get a call from my mum that the RAM i ordered online has just arrived and i gotta be there to confirm the delivery and to verify that the product is right. I woke up immediately, in a rush without fixing my bed. i ran with happiness and excitement, and full of thoughts of what i am going to do after upgrading my laptop’s ram. Confirmed the order, took the RAM, went back to my room. I was happy. I was excited. ...

Recently, i got myself a laptop (a gaming one) for college work, and the battery life was fine on windows (which it came preinstalled with) because windows by default does battery power optimizations preserve battery life. When i installed Arch Linux on it, the battery life was disappointing. On windows my laptop would last for about 3 hours and on the other hand on linux, it would barely reach 2 hours… ...

Introduction to keepass Everyone should use password managers, because remembering unique passwords is difficult. There are many great password FOSS password managers such as bitwarden, keepass, keepassxc etc. I wouldnt recommend using bitwarden because its cloud based, Your password database is being stored in cloud, and it makes me really paranoid. because there are thousands of users using it, so a lot of hackers trying to hack bitwarden’s server. bitwarden allows you to self-host it, so you can host it in your own server. ...

So recently, my computer’s power button stopped working. i dont know what exactly happened to it, but it just stopped working. now i was completely unable to boot my PC. i spent whole day without my computer, thinking i would take it to a computer technician and fix it the next day. but just for the sake of trying out, i tried figuring some way out myself. I opened my PC’s cabinate and searched for the cable which connects the motherboard and the power button(POWER SW cable). I disconnected that cable from the motherboard and took a screwdriver and then trouched it to the pins where the POWER SW cable was connected previously. Voilah! the pc booted up. ...