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I've been told by my parents(mostly) and some others that bringing in huge swaths of money from US to India would make banks suspicious. I'm currently in RNOR status. What can I do to minimize or avoid this?

My ultimate goal is to move it into ICICI and then onto their FD schemes and I don't have an account at ICICI. I don't have an NRE account either. I've been told opening one just before trying to transfer something like 2cr could trigger such issues. So first thing is I'm planning to open one now, do some minimal transactions(under 10k) every few months or so and eventually when I have that 2 cr in due time, I'll transfer it but other that anything else to keep in mind? Will time between opening the account and transfer of huge funds be a factor?
Is a typical savings account even the "right way" to bring in money? Please advise what you'll have done in such cases.

Need professional with experience filing tax in India for RNOR status citizen in Hyderabad. Please DM or reach out in comments. If any of you got help from tax consultants, please share their contact. 🙏

Need professional with experience filing tax in India for RNOR status citizen in Hyderabad. Please DM or reach out in comments. If any of you got help from tax consultants, please share their contact. 🙏

Both of these were great entertainers but I was wondering why both of these end in such a way without full "closure" to the audience. It seems like this kind of storytelling is becoming more mainstream where you don't really know who the bad guy or what the plot really is until the end or even not know after the series finishes because there are so many intricate layers. Keeps the audience hooked, wanting for more and more seasons. Seems like a great "playbook" to keep us entertained in this ever growing world of movies creating sequels, prequels, and repeating the same storylines in slightly different ways.

Anyway I'm hooked & looking for suggestions for series which have almost exactly similar intricacies keeping us edge on the seats all the time until the very end and either ends with/without a proper "closure". Thank you very much indeed!

https://preview.redd.it/rib7bdqzmrch1.png?width=1195&format=png&auto=webp&s=83d5ecd56e1a1bdf135971382b737ff31277e8b6

This was my original post in 4kTV channel:
"I missed the GOAT sales weekend on amazon and flipkart. And now prices have gone up by a lot. When can we expect(dates) next big discounts, for rest of the year and beyond. It seems like because new models came out recently prices now for even the older models seem up since they wanna get rid of them..."

I understand they have a right to restrict my posts it but the reason given is super r@cI$t. Avoid this subreddit like the plague!

I remember vividly after fresh install of mint 22.2 ~6 months ago, the mint logo appeared almost instantly(maybe 1-1.5seconds) after turning on my laptop and also quickly(maybe another second or two) disappeared to transition to lock screen. Unfortunately I didn't run the command I ran below during the initial days since I didn't know I'll get to this stage, but now it takes at least 12 seconds to get to the lock screen.
This is the output of systemd-analyze:

Startup finished in 3.275s (firmware) + 5.071s (loader) + 2.851s (kernel) + 4.967s (userspace) = 16.165s

graphical.target reached after 4.922s in userspace.

Here are all the apps I've installed:
vscode, keepasscx as flatpaks through GUI(package manager), qbittorrent & zsh, batcat, plank, cargo through cli.
Also during these 6 months a whole host of system updates(through update manager) along with a handful of kernel updates were done, currently on 6.17.0-35.

I deleted all the kernels except the latest two.
I did the usual stuff, using systemd-analyze, found & disabled one unnecessary service after doing some digging on it (don't remember which one) and also ran systemd-analyze critical-chain which shows:

graphical.target u/4.922s

└─multi-user.target u/4.921s

└─getty.target u/4.921s

└─getty@tty1.service u/4.920s

└─system-getty.slice u/4.915s

└─setvtrgb.service u/4.870s +42ms

└─plymouth-quit-wait.service u/4.716s +72ms

└─systemd-user-sessions.service u/4.688s +17ms

└─network.target u/4.659s

└─NetworkManager.service u/3.459s +1.197s

└─network-pre.target u/3.451s

└─ufw.service u/1.424s +2.026s

└─local-fs.target u/1.388s

└─boot-efi.mount u/1.337s +50ms

└─systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-7026\x2d2A6B.service u/1.247s +86ms

└─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-7026\x2d2A6B.device u/1.204s

but nothing stands out here & no dice.
I do have a lot of movies downloaded onto my drive which is a samsung 870 evo SATA ssd(not NVME) as shown in /dev/sda4 entry by running df -h:

tmpfs 1.7G 1.8M 1.7G 1% /run

efivarfs 103k 95k 2.3k 98% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

/dev/sda3 101G 16G 80G 17% /

tmpfs 8.4G 0 8.4G 0% /dev/shm

tmpfs 5.3M 8.2k 5.3M 1% /run/lock

/dev/sda4 370G 174G 177G 50% /home

/dev/sda1 1.1G 6.5M 1.1G 1% /boot/efi

tmpfs 1.7G 103k 1.7G 1% /run/user/1000

and I'm in the process of moving all of those to an external drive. I think I've read somewhere that if used space is closer to the capacity the drive slows down or something like that(although I'm close to only 50% of capacity consumed) but since I've the root partition separated from home I'm not sure if this will speed anything up meaningfully or at all.

I did get an upgrade notification to 22.3 a while ago and not sure if proceeding with that will help with this issue. I'm also mostly certain that a fresh install would bring me back to the initial days when everything was fast, but that's some work and have to back up and install stuff again one at a time and trying to avoid that unless there's something else I can try and fix this before going that route.
Any help would be appreciated.