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Week 111 – Phone 🅱roke

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I feel a bit weird writing this early because the last week’s blog was delayed by so long that some of my week bled into that 🤒

Personal Highlights

So this week I noticed that the front camera of my phone wasn’t working, initially, I thought it was just a memory cache issue and tried to reset the camera app, and then restarted the phone several times, but nothing fixed it and then I realized why my face unlock hasn’t been working for the last couple of weeks.

After further inspection, I got to know that even my ultra-wide camera isn’t working and obviously I thought this was some OS-level glitch and decided to factory reset my phone.

And guess what? Even that did not fix it 😭

Also forgot to back up my new 2FA keys of some apps to my other phone before resetting and lost them 🤧

After wasting an entire day trying to reset and backup my phone I decided to take my phone to the service centre which is 15kms away from my house 🤒

After I showed them my phone and explained the issue they did some checking and told me it was a motherboard issue.

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And then they very gracefully quoted me an amount of 9.8K for a new motherboard.

To which I obviously said “No thank you.”

And then I started my pursuit of a new phone 🤧 Which I will buy a month or two later because I don’t think camera is something that I need very badly.

Fitness

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Watch Stopped working on Tuesday after a factory reset
[Fixed it by singing into Samsung heath on my phone]

  • Gym
    For the last 1 and a half months, I have been following the bro split at the gym but from the next week, I am going to change that after numerous suggestions from friends and youtube videos.
    But honestly no hate to the bro-split (1 muscle group per day), I feel it was important for me to learn most of the exercises of particular exercises, which would have been harder to grasp if I wasn’t following one muscle per day routine but now that I am familiar with the exercises it about time that I switch to my old 2 muscles a day routine, wherein I will be doing
    Monday - Chest Tricep
    Tuesday - Back & Bicep
    Wednesday - Shoulders & Legs
    Thursday - Rest
    Friday - Chest tricep and back
    Sat - Legs & Shoulders
    Sunday - Rest
    However, I am a bit skeptical of this routine, even though it worked fine for me before with a low volume of weights but now that I have made some progression with weights I am not sure if I will be able to keep up with this routine.
    Anyway we will find out next week

Learning

  • Reading:
    Did very less reading this week almost ‘naa k barabar’.

Job Update

Edited some reels for Google India with @notmaoj 😁

Business Updates

A few steps forward a few steps backwards.

Thoughts from the past week🤔

You can’t keep optimizing life, sometimes you just have to go on auto-pilot mode and do whatever you feel like doing and that is how most people out there function and in fact that I how I lived till a year or so ago.

No to-do list, No wish list no nothing.

Just living life unaware of the future but also at the same time a bit sad about not making progress in any direction.

That has been my life for the last couple of weeks.

I stopped following my to-do list, mainly because the work at hand was manageable 😝
But also because I kinda lost interest in optimizing and improving myself.

Opinions 🗣️

My Favourites from the Week ⭐

Twitter Threads 🧵

Finally, read this thread from GS Bhogal

VIDEOS 📼

Purchases 🛒

I feel bad for spending money while at the same time using the things that I purchased, it’s a bit of like sitting in a Ferrari and crying but hey… will do that someday too, added to my bucket list.

Movies 🎥

Laal Singh Chadha

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I watched this movie on a Sunday and the theatre was empty ☠️

I just searched for my forest grump review on my old blog and realized that I shied away from writing a review back in September of 2020 when I first watched the movie and that is something I regret doing because there were a lot of things that I thought of the movie when I first watched it.

Like how much I hated jenny.

But I feel I have changed a lot since then and have had some life experiences which made me not hate Rupa in this movie, rather I felt sympathetic towards her.

But that is just a part of the movie, overall I felt this remake to be weaker than the original and I would choose to watch the original any day over this but that doesn’t mean that everyone should boycott this movie.

I feel there is a vast Indian demographic who would find this movie a bit more relatable than the original and for them it’s a shame that they didn’t get to enjoy this movie just for the sake of boycotting.

But anyway the movie is okayish for a one-time watch. For some reason, it feels very fast-paced whereas the original movie felt like a journey, and the resolutions of the movies were very strong, but this somehow lacks that punch of emotion.

I would rate it 3/5⭐

Tech Tip 🧙‍♂️

Make a checklist to follow every time you decide to factory reset your phone.

Songs 🎶

New Discoveries

Old Favourites

Podcast 🎙

Did not finish the podcast yet, maybe by next week I will.

Memes/Edits from the last week 🐒

👉 Here 👈

How was your week?🧐

Coming up next week🥅

Idk kinda wanna play Spider-Man PC remastered all day which was released last week, but then I have work to do as well and money to make 🤒

Quote from the week📃

Beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded. - Philip E. Tetlock

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