Thanks to all the folks who joined today's Icebreaker session 🙏 If you found it fun and useful, can we have a quick thumbs up 😄 Also, happy to receive any feedback to improve the experience (noted the point about having longer sessions) 📝

thanks all. was fun.

Annual cleaning of the workspace and customary sharing of the workspace picture. Recently bought a Dell Dock which has cut down the use of jugadu cables and extenders by about 40% - though it is not a 100% with the Mac ecosystem - but still better than nothing.

Does anybody else feel the current time tracking tools out there suck big time? I feel time tracking tools should help me achieve my goals rather being a burden?

UXHack hosted a hackathon-challenge recently to enhance the experience of "Mini app store" launched by Paytm recently. We had to take care of users as well as developers. Read more about it here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/m-design_scorecard-of-meet-shah-paytm-challenge-activity-6729264735570731008-d7Vq

I’ve been in talks with an Indian company about a full-time role and they have a compulsory BYOD policy. You can either use your existing device or you can tell the device that you need which would then be bought for you and the company would take instalments for it from your salary. Other than this, everything related to maintaining the system totally falls on me and the company won’t spend a dime on it. I’m very much against it as I’ll either be using my own device or “buy” a new one through them and use it for over 9 hours daily for the their work and then not even get paid to maintain it. Also, maintenance for Macbook’s are a pretty costly affair like an original charger would cost around Rs 7k, battery costs around 28k and so on. I’m planning to not go ahead with them primarily due to this policy and their data related clauses around them. What are your thoughts on this policy?

I am publishing this little rant to encourage a positive debate on this topic. Let me know what you think.

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Hello #tribe Is there a free alternative to

krisp[dot]ai

? I know that Krisp is a wonderful tool, but I am not in a position to pay for its services currently. Its free version allows for 120mins/week, but I would be needing more than that.

Does anyone have a self hosted email or use any service paid service for email? What's your experience and would you recommend? ✉️

Actually, I enjoy Gsuite and google products, smooth, fast and haven't faced many issues for last 3-4 years Have 3-4 domains and can use alias and 5 emails for free by 1 subscription by using alias hack in it #notadeveloper

They've worked a lot on Meet and it's much more reliable than zoom, teams imho

Tribe, A recent conversation with a team mate, we went back to the 2006-2007 time, talking of the state of the internet, the google, what was life like then etc. Reflecting back, I was a school going kid, hyper curious, always questioning, spent every week on my friends newest shiny PC playing flash games, exploring windows office (word and excel), building cars out of cardboard boxes and all that stuff. Would be fun to know the tribe, what all were you upto during this time frame.

Tribe, is there a particular website which specifically lists jobs from South East Asian countries which offer remote opportunities for India based candidates as well? In most of the traditional job sites I have been browsing (wwr, stackoverflow, linkedin, remoteok, remotive) I see jobs posted from EU, US mostly while SEA countries are missing.

Hey Tribe. Are there any budget alternatives to Apple magic mouse? I have a Macbook pro 2018 with touchbar.

Looking to apply for a remote job but don't know how to? Problem with CV? Cover Letter? What to write and what not? I'm honoured to have been invited to speak at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus on 'How to land a remote job and why you should apply'. If you are interested as well, join me on 18th Nov 4.30 pm Link to free register - https://www.unic.ac.cy/event/csc-guest-speaker-series-online-webinar-land-that-remote-job-how-and-why-you-should-apply/

Anybody has an opinion on Steelcase Think vs Haworth Very? https://www.steelcase.com/products/office-chairs/think/ vs https://www.haworth.com/na/en/products/stools/very-0.html Looking to buy used from https://chaircycle.in

Is anybody interested in forming a group on Clubhouse? I have been using it over the weekend and have found quite a few interesting people.

It's the time I should show some gratitude towards community. I started my search like a month back, approached some people who have posted on #work-opportunities and one of them actually got clicked, and joining them soon. A little thanks to @remoteindian and @calm-grass-85557 for making this community a reality for everyone 😄 PS: You guys can shoot questions in the thread for the job hunting

Anybody knows of a (Bangalore) monitor rental service?

Since people appreciate workspace pictures, thought I'd share mine :)

This is such a cool piece of tech coming out of India https://www.wifidabba.com/blog/200000-dollars-in-sales-from-one-daringfireball-ad

A friend is looking for a powerful wifi router for his office which can support 50+ devices and preferably has wifi 6. Any recommendations?

It's here already 🔥 🤩

Here's my workspace :)) going rgb all in lol :)

Hey Tribe. I am looking for a Monitor. Don’t want to spend too much (around 11-12k would be sweet spot but I can go till 14-15k if it’s awesome). I do want a height adjustable stand and don’t really know enough about how to choose the monitor. Any help would be appreciated. PS - Macbook Pro user so Type C to HDMI cable recommendations also needed. 😅

Hi Tribe, Interested in working remotely from a Villa in Goa? I am planning to book a villa on airbnb (5-7 ppl) to work out of during the month of January and February next year. Cost would be around 20-30k per room per month. Let me know if anyone from this forum is interested in joining as well. Here are some of the options that we’re considering https://www.airbnb.co.in/s/Goa--India/homes?adults=7&refinement_paths%5B%5D=%2Fhomes&tab_id=home_tab&ne_lat=15.633181010626503&ne_lng=73.9030563298362&sw_lat=15.357257492873917&sw_lng=73.5899459782737&zoom=12&search_by_map=true&search_type=unknown

#tribe Under what circumstances would you be ready in sharing your current/past CTC to the potential employer? I know that revealing that takes away the bargaining power while negotiating for salary, but I want to know if there is any upside in revealing it?