u/sahilatahar

Hi Guys, I am in Bhubaneswar, and I want to buy a refurbished laptop.

I talked to a person from my contacts, and he said I can get an i5 10th gen, 8GB RAM, 256 SSD, 14-inch display, DOS (No OS; I will not use Windows), and a 3-month warranty for 22K.

But the thing I want is a 15.6-inch laptop. He said it's not available right now; I will try to arrange it, so how much of a price difference can there be?

I will mainly use it for Coding, Movies, YouTube, and some other things.

Has anyone previously bought a refurbished laptop? What was your issue, and does anyone know a good provider in Bhubaneswar?

I used Google Pay for almost two years. Then I started de-Googling my phone. Over time, I replaced almost every Google app with open-source alternatives. The only thing left was UPI, because there isn't a reliable open-source UPI app yet.

I spent a lot of time researching and reading Reddit discussions about which UPI app would be the best. Eventually, I switched to BHIM UPI since it's the government-backed app.

At first, it worked really well, and I even recommended it to others. But later, it started causing problems during my development work. It began flagging almost every second app on my phone: my clipboard manager, developer tools, apps with accessibility permissions, USB debugging, and more.

I tried everything I could think of:

• Toggling Developer Options from Quick Settings.
• Using apps that bypass accessibility permission detection.
• Disabling features one by one.

Nothing worked.

In the end, I switched to PhonePe. I know it isn't the most privacy-friendly choice, and much of the company is owned by foreign investors, but I didn't have many options left.

For me, privacy has always been more important than cashback offers. That's why:

• I left Google Pay because it's a Google product.
• I didn't choose Paytm because of privacy concerns and past data leak reports (even though some of those reports turned out to be inaccurate).
• I tried BHIM and genuinely liked it, but its security checks became too restrictive for my use case.
• Most other UPI apps seem more focused on cashback and promotions than privacy.

I used BHIM for about a month and honestly thought it was the best option until it started blocking things I actually needed, including my own apps during development.

Has anyone else faced similar issues with BHIM? If you've found a privacy-friendly UPI app that works well for developers, especially an Indian app, I'd love to hear your recommendations.

Hi, my main browser is Brave. Apart from that, I use Soul Browser, and I love its feature to download any video from any site, including streaming videos. If someone doesn't know about Soul Browser, when you play a video, it shows its own controls and download options. I'd like a similar browser for Windows, please.

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