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Using Gen AI in day-to-day life
Today, I wrote an angry email to some support team. While I was writing it, I realized that while I’m pouring my heart out, the tone I used will not help. Yet, I could not have made it better without a lot of effort/multiple iterations.
ChatGPT to the rescue.
I simply pasted my response as-is, and asked it to make it professional sounding.
The reworded letter was much better.
Thanks ChatGPT! 🙏
It feels so good to “Do the right thing even if you don’t feel like doing it”
Hal Elrod (Miracle Morning fame) defines Habit as
Doing what needs to be done whether you feel like it not.
I did my MM SAVERS for 50 days, and then fell off the bandwagon.
Till I picked it up yesterday.
Today was the second day, and I didn’t feel like getting up.
But I did.
Once I was up, rest was easy 😄
Initial resistance needs to be overcome.
Maybe use 5-second rule ? (I didn’t. Today. Just sayin)
Happy New Year 2025 to everyone and their family !
May your dreams come true
Today I completed “Rust: The Complete Developer’s Guide” course on Udemy 🎉
Here is the certificate
I got myself a new mobile phone after almost 5 years.
My old one is still going strong.
But there are no OS updates. I’m stuck at Android 10
Some random facts about the new phone - in no specific order
- It is 3 times the price of the old one
- It is 5G
- I don’t get 5G everywhere, but place where I did get 5G signal, I got 500MB+ download speed (as per speed test) 🤯
- It has Wi-Fi calling. Hopefully, my calls won’t get dropped 🤞
- This was one of the main reasons everyone around me was asking me to upgrade 😄
Since the phone is 5 years newer, it is better - by default - in so many categories.
I’m planning to put custom ROM on the older phone and give it to my kids, for occasional game or for web search for their studies etc.
We have a bicycle which was unused for months.
I got it fixed (some oiling, check tyres, brakes etc.) for all of Rs. 90 😄
Today, I rode bicycle for the first time after decades.
Not for long. Maybe 15 minutes.
Since I was not used to it, my legs hurt 😄
But it felt great to ride a cycle after so many years.
Finally, my Macbook Pro is back!
As part of fixing, they put OS X Yosemite on it. 😭
Practically nothing worked. For some reason, Apple ID login also did not work. I checked on another machine, username/password was indeed correct.
There was no option to upgrade to macOS Monterey (last supported version on this hardware) from the App Store either.
App store listed macOS Sonoma, which I knew wasn’t supported, but tried it anyway. As expected, it said “Not supported” (Duh!)
Finally, resorted to Internet Discovery.
It offered to install macOS Monterey, as expected.
All is well.
(It took some time, downloading etc. But otherwise pretty uneventful)
My Macbook Pro won’t boot anymore :(
I was watching some Youtube videos in the evening, and then at night, it just became unresponsive.
Over the next few days, I tried various options.
Booted from external USB. Worked!
Tried Internet Recovery.
Turns out the SSD is recognised, but can’t be fixed/formatted/erased.
Looks like a hardware issue.
Due to death in my family, “100 days of Rust” is halted. I’ll continue it soon.