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May 21, 2025

Trouble shooting random shutdown of my desktop

Filed under: Computer Hardware,My Thoughts,Tech Related — Suramya @ 2:54 AM

Day before yesterday my computer randomly started switching off late at night. So I thought it could be a problem with the power supply or the power cable or the extension board powering the computer. First I changed the power cable and that seemed to resolve the problem. Unfortunately a little while later it happened again and I had to change the cable again before you started working. Which was very strange and made me think that the problem could be happening because of a short or something in the extension board that I was using so I ordered a new one for next day delivery.

In the mean time I connected the computer to a different board but it powered down again completely after a random interval. So I concluded that the issue had to be with the power supply itself and started looking options to get a new power supply as soon as possible. The local shop I used to use to get computer parts had gone out of business, so I asked around for recommendations and was going to reach out to them the next day (as it was around 1am at this time)

Once I had a plan of action I thought to try changing the cable again just to see what would happen and surprisingly the system powered on successfully. As I was working on the computer I heard a low volume beep from the computer but I didn’t see any message on the terminal as to why the beep was triggered and while I was checking on that I suddenly remembered that the system can also beep in case of overheating which can and does cause a shutdown. So I checked the temperature of the motherboard and the CPU and both were hovering at 98 degree Celsius. I remember from past experiences that the auto powerdown temperature in the BIOS is usually set to 100 Deg C so I figured that could be what was causing the problem.

I took a flashlight and took a look at the motherboard and CPU to see if there were any obvious problems causing the overheating and lo and behold one of the CPU fans was not working because a cable had moved which was blocking it from turning. I moved the cable out and once the fan started working again the CPU temperature started to drop quickly and its been a day and a half now with no issues.

Thankfully I had not ordered the replacement powersupply as that was not needed. The moral of the story is that we should always check hardware and software before you decide to replace equipment and if possible give your mind a bit of time to process information before going ahead and replacing the hardware.

– Suramya

May 20, 2025

Photography Cheat sheet

Filed under: Tutorials — Suramya @ 12:37 AM

I love photography but at times find it difficult to remember which setting would give the effect I am looking for, so to avoid that I am going to post the Photographer Cheat Sheet that I found to be very useful. This way I don’t have to search for it on my system but rather just look for it on the blog.

Photography Cheat sheet
Photography Cheat sheet

– Suramya

May 19, 2025

Stop trying to gatekeep if folks are really enthusiasts

Filed under: My Thoughts — Suramya @ 1:36 PM

I really hate all the gatekeeping that people do to make themselves feel better about their crappy life. The following image showed up in my feed and it talks about finding ‘if they truly are car enthusiasts or not’. I mean what the hell. An enthusiast is someone who is enthusiastic about something. You don’t need to pass an exam to be considered an ‘enthusiast’.

Best way to find out if your
Best way to find out if your “car friends” are really ‘car people’… Show them this, their response and how long it takes for them to realise will let you know if they truly are car enthusiasts or not.

This happens in all areas and its usually men who will do this to exclude folks they deem not worthy to join their special little group. A few days ago I saw a post on one of the tech forums (didn’t take a screenshot) that asked if someone called SQL S.Q.L instead of Seequel did they know what they were talking about and if you would trust them with your database. I would trust them but will probably think twice about trusting the person who asked this question with my code/database.

A while ago I was on a call with a group of American devs talking to a group of British devs and the discussion was about changing the configuring router configuration for network optimization. The brits kept talking about changing the rooter (the British pronunciation) config. After the call ended of the of guys in the office (American) went something like: “All that is well and good but what on earth is a rooter that they kept talking about”. (The Americans pronounce it as rou-ter) Which I found to be hilarious. Gaurang keeps making fun of my pronunciation because I tend to use the US version rather than the British one that he uses.

But that doesn’t mean that the folks on call calling it a rooter didn’t know what they were talking about. If I can’t identify the image above it doesn’t mean that I am not an enthusiast, I might be more interested in car tires or performance numbers or whatever. Now if they had put this as something like using this as a test for identifying good candidates while hiring it would be a different story (still not the best way but definitely better)

Stop gatekeeping folks. You are pushing out people who like the same things you do just not in the same way or detail.

– Suramya

May 17, 2025

Reflect Orbital Raises $20M to increase light pollution on Earth

Filed under: Astronomy / Space,Emerging Tech,My Thoughts,Tech Related — Suramya @ 11:59 PM

Solar power is awesome and we need more companies investing into this technologies but this project by Reflect Orbitals seems like a phenomenally bad idea. They are aiming to use orbital reflectors to shine sunlight on solar panel farms to extend the time they can generate power. In addition they are also looking at providing nighttime lighting i.e. an impossible to turn off bright light in the sky to light up a construction project or event.

Reflect’s ultimate vision is to boost solar power production on Earth. It aims to position mirrors in orbit to beam down sunlight to solar farms just before dawn, and just after dusk—effectively increasing the total time during which a solar farm can generate electricity.

In the meantime, the company has other plans to bring in revenue. Since its founding in 2021, the company has received 260,000+ requests for nighttime lighting. Future services could include illuminating overnight construction projects, public events, disaster relief efforts, and defense operations.

We already have problems due to light pollution such as health problems, confusing the circadian rhythm of animals and humans and many many more such problems. This system will light up areas without the consent of folks living there just because there is an event going on nearby. It will have a massive impact on the nocturnal animals, astronomers amongst others. But from a money minded perspective it makes complete sense as it allows companies to work through the night never mind the impact on others.

Even if we go with their press release and assume that they are only going to use it just before dawn and just after sunset it will still have a massive impact. Birds will not know when to fly back to their nests because it would still be light, nocturnal creatures will have less time to hunt/mate/survive because the length of the dark time is reduced.

The sad part is that they have raised $20 million already on this claiming to be ready to launch the first set of satellites next spring to illuminate 10 locations around the world. Thankfully there doesn’t seem to be much interest around this technology at this time but lets see. Hopefully that will continue and this nonsense shutdown fast.

Source: payloadspace.com: Reflect Orbital Raises $20M Series A

– Suramya

May 11, 2025

VibeCon – the biggest vibe coding conference!

Filed under: Artificial Intelligence,Humor,My Thoughts — Suramya @ 1:51 PM

Took me a few seconds to figure this out. Register for VibeCon – the biggest vibe coding conference! .

VibeCon - the biggest vibe coding conference! Register now: localhost:3000/registration
VibeCon – the biggest vibe coding conference! Register now: localhost:3000/registration

The funny part is that a lot of folks who are ‘Vibe Coding’ will not get the joke here…

Source: Mastodon: @leyrer@23.social

– Suramya

May 9, 2025

OpenAI site can’t figure out how to allow users to change their password’s

Filed under: Artificial Intelligence,Humor,My Thoughts — Suramya @ 9:56 PM

Changing passwords regularly is a good way to ensure that your accounts are secure. Yes I know about the new NIST guidelines on password changing but I disagree with it. If you are using a password manager (and you should be) then changing passwords on a regular basis is not a hard thing to do.

In any case, I noticed that the password on a bunch of my accounts had not been changed in a while so was updating them; one of the accounts is on OpenAI that I had created when it had launched but not really used much after that. After logging in I spent a few minutes trying to find the option to change my password but couldn’t find it, finally had to go to the FAQ’s to find out how to change the password and I saw the following:


Instructions on how to reset the password

How to reset your ChatGPT password

  • Log out of your account, or open a private/incognito browser window.
  • Go to the ChatGPT home page
  • Click Log in.
  • Enter your email address and click Continue.
  • Select Forgot password? on the password entry screen.
  • Follow the instructions in the password reset email you receive.

They really don’t know how to implement a simple change password functionality… I mean this is not something I expect from a billion dollar company. I have seen this on sites created by startups but never at a large company. Although, if their site is created using their AI code generation then that would kind of explains this. 😉

– Suramya

May 3, 2025

AI is not going to take your job even though VC’s keep claiming that is the case

Filed under: Artificial Intelligence,My Thoughts — Suramya @ 9:49 PM

99% of what we see about what AI can do is basically hype, especially stuff from VC’s (Venture Capitalists) or other leaders in companies that have invested in AI. Then you have people like Marc Andreessen who seem to be living in an alternate reality all together because that’s the only explanation I have for them making statements like the one below. I mean it is an interesting take that your super power AI will be able to generate actual art like paintings, books and poems etc but not be able to be a VC because ‘it (being a VC) is more art than science.’ I mean if it can generate actual art (that doesn’t suck) what is stopping it from doing a VC job even if it more ‘art’ than science? After all you are claiming that it can perform other intangible skills so why not your job?


Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans. It's more art than science.
Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans. It’s more art than science.

The funny part is that an AI can actually do a VC’s job more easily than create art that that people like. I would love to have an AI that actually works. I mean, I am a Sci-Fi fan, so yeah I would absolutely geek out about AI in real. Unfortunately what we have now is nothing close to being intelligent and that just sucks.

– Suramya

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