Looking for portable keyboards to use with android phone on the road. I have Logitech K380 bluetooth keyboard but its too big for carrying it in a backpack for 3-4 day trips. I could find only 1 (foldable) Portronics Chicklet keyboard in Amazon but unsure of its quality and reliability. Any suggestions? How is Protronics?

Can someone help @broad-camera-13514 out 🙏

Well, time to stop being lazy and migrate out of Google ecosystem. Suggestions please. What services are you guys using for Email, Cloud Storage, Calendar, etc.? https://support.google.com/drive/thread/127021326/google-has-locked-my-account-for-sharing-a-historical-archive-they-labeled-as-terrorist-activity?hl=en

Anyone has good recos for earphones? 10k budget. Not sure if I should get wireless or wired. And if 10k wired IEMs will be significantly better than something like samsung buds 2. Or if I should even be spending that much. Primary use is to listen music ) rock, fusion, electropop)

Does anyone know a good career counsellor? I need to talk to someone who's really well versed with the tech industry and is aware of the specific work involved in different roles such as Product Management, Designing, Programming, etc.

I have a friend who is currently in US  and  needs to provide Govt. issued birth certificate, He was born in 1970, Kerala (at home - not in hospital) - and has a Church’s hand-written document that he has  used as birth certificate. He has aadhar/Passport with Kerala as Birth place and the correct birth date. He was told that there is  process in which based on the  aadhar/Passport  - you can get a official birth certificate Do you know of anyone who has done this or any agent who would be able to help?

Question of the Week

What’s the kindest/helpful thing a RI member has ever done for you?

For the gestures, big and small, that helped you. - It’s time to shoutout 📣 and acknowledge the help they gave.

Pretty cool interview with HaKr :

There is a domain name (not with me) that's about to expire. I would love to be the person who gets that once it is available. Does anyone has experience/ideas/tips about being the first to get an expiring domain? 🤔

For anyone who might find this helpful: I was looking at ThinkPad E15. I need something portable (< 2Kgs), 15.6" and a decent dedicated graphics. All local stores (Kolkata) and almost all models online come with integrated graphics. Then I saw that on lenovo.com we can customise and add nVidia MX350 or MX450. These cards perhaps won't run very heavy games but they run DotA 2 fine (I am regular player on current MX250). This comes with USB-C 65W charger! i5 11th Gen/16GB RAM/512 GB M.2 SSD/nVidia MX450 2GB/15.6" IPS FHD 100% sRGB is at Rs 85K on lenovo's website.

I have a 30 day https://wip.chat invite, please dm me your email if you want one 🙂 #fcfs

Has anyone used nobroker.in for packing/moving? They said all the right things on call, explained in detail etc. But could just be trained for that I did like their claim that they would use their own team end-to-end - no 3rd party, no tips will be requested etc

does anyone knows a lawyer personally in Mumbai, who can help with drafting agreement between a vendor and client with respect to IP ownership of a software / web application. client has been engaging with the vendor to build the software product for about a year now and they wan't to have an agreement with them to make sure that they do not re-produce or sell the same product to anyone else and the client owns the IP.

RI community, I'm looking for some suggestions on how one can create a bank account in EU to receive EUR by staying in India. Is there any neo-bank? Appreciate your help!

Hey RI Folks 👋 I would like to connect with people who are working as a remote developer or QA for US/Europe/Australia based companies. Long story: As some of you know here, I’m building Disbug.io for few months now. We have few paid customers and few hundred free users using the product. I have some assumptions of product market fit. I am interviewing dev and QA teams across various geographies to understand their bug reporting process, pains and challenges they are facing everyday. Talking to you will help me to validate or debunk those assumptions and build Disbug as a better product to help development teams. 20 minutes on Zoom is all it takes - would you mind helping me out? Thanks ! 🙏

iOS users, are you using iCloud and Apple Photos or Google Drive and Google Photos? The storage price is almost same so it boils down to experience. I’m new to iOS and the Google Photos experience hasn’t been great so far on iOS

Hi folks, would you know any experienced (4+ years) freelance web developers working on the HTML/CSS/VanillaJS/PHP stack? Preferably having experience with any PHP-based CMS like Craft/WordPress/Drupal, etc. If yes, please do share name/contacts/portfolio. (Individual devs only. No agencies.)

Question of the Week

Was there ever a moment when you were thankful/grateful that the pandemic happened?

The pandemic was definitely not a happy situation for many. But have you ever been grateful for the lockdown and pandemic ?

Here's an excellent guide I found on the internet about Salary negotiation 💯

Patreon payments have started failing and I am unable to add any of my Credit Cards? Has anyone else been able to make payments post 1st Oct to Patreon? I am afraid all international transactions (which don’t have a 2FA) are going to be blocked 😕

i am looking to buy a height adjustable office desk. the general recommendation on this group seems like desqoo. though i came across the desk from flowlyf which seems more tech savy and comes with a cable tray to avoid wire clutter. has anyone used this before?

Any feedback on this mic? https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07JHDKXK4/?coliid=I36GR7IPWHUDAB&amp;colid=2Z9O9NYGZL21K&amp;psc=1&amp;ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Is there anyone who bought any products from Lenevo.com? I'm looking to buy Lenevo IdeaPad Flex 5 but it's not available on Flipkart/Amazon. I think I can buy the product from Lenevo India website but delivery time is super long..(says could take up to 10 weeks!) Sidenote: If anyone has any recommendations for a 2-in-1 laptop with a stylus (except Ipads), let me know :)..

I believe this question is answered earlier but confirming again how do we negotiate with foreign companies when we have a notice period in India. Is it we agree the offer and work two jobs until notice period or we need to set the expectations on joining

In your opinion, what is the best way to do research to find out the technologies that are in demand, specifically in the context of short term projects/freelance marketplaces (let's say in the data engineering domain for example). I don't think a lot of those marketplaces publish their open project requirements to non-members. (background: I have some downtime that I would like to use for learning)

what is your thought on this? https://overemployed.com/the-overemployed-way/

Hi, I am looking to connect with anyone who has experience of selling SaaS products on the AWS Marketplace.

My Macbook Pro 16" doesn’t go on battery optimisation mode anymore (it doesn’t stop charging at 80%) even though I’ve enabled it in the settings. It used work a couple of months back but I don’t remember when exactly it stopped. Anyone have a clue what might be causing this?