Posts on Aakarshit Tyagi - Blog

Setup Own WireGuard/IPsec VPN on Cloud with Adblocking

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0530

Hey there! It has been a while, and there have been significant changes in my life since my last update. To summarise, I sold everything, moved to a new country, started a new job, made new friends at the Toronto Public Library while I was looking for my first job in Canada, lived in a basement, moved to a new place with 2 dogs and 1 cat, visited Niagara Falls (basic), enjoyed a lot of hikes in -30°C weather, bought a car, shoveled a combined of 2+ metres of snow during winter 2025, visited my home country for a vacation, took selfies with a camel, turned 30, and I’m all set to move to a new place in Vaughan (no doxxing pls!😢); and begin a new job in the FinTech industry.

Travel: My trip to Kazakhstan

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0530

Philosophical Lecture

In the last year and a half, I have travelled across 5 different countries:

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
🇯🇵 Japan
🇹🇭 Thailand
🇨🇦 Canada
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Traveling is worth spending money on. You land in a new country, the weather is different, you don’t have the local currency (yet, unless you brought it with you), you gotta figure out how to get to your hotel and you don’t speak the language.

Car Hacks 101: DIY Apple Carplay in a Ford EcoSport

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0530

Motivation

I wanted to enable Apple CarPlay/Android Auto on the infotainment of my Ford Ecosport (this works for Figo/Aspire too!), but without swapping out the factory head unit. Reddit says to ditch the car and buy a new one to achieve that goal, and I agree; The question I have is: In this Economy?!?! The car has a nice 9-inch touchscreen so usability won’t be an issue. 😏 The problem? It runs ancient Windows CE 6.0 on ARM (MT33xx processor with 256 MB of RAM). This unit was installed on Ford cars before August 2020 . Post that, it was replaced by an equally bad Android 4.2.2 with still no CarPlay support. Overall, I wanted to check if I could modify a few lines here and there to convert the car into a Decepticon . That didn’t work but I still managed to add CarPlay support and tested it successfully on a 12-hour drive to Goa. 🤩

Low-cost CAD/US phone number over VoIP

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0530

Prologue

I became a permanent resident of Canada on December 22, 2024, after working in India for 6 years, nailing my CELPIP/IELTS with CLB 10, and completing two degrees! If you have been following the news, immigration has become extremely difficult, and those already in the country with a work permit or an education are unable to qualify for PR because there’s a cap in place; the scores are just too high. I got lucky, at the right time, and my occupation is/was in demand. More on my decision to move from Bangalore, India into a deep freezer — in a later blog post.