Recent content by mayank_asthana

I waited for good android phones but none were compelling. I ended up buying the iphone 12 128GB on sale. No buyer's remorse.

How's the mic and call quality in general?

I wanted to get the M1 air 16 GB with 512 GB SSD but it is costing 1.33L which is too high. So dropped the idea.

Any idea how the downmixing to stereo happens via the line/headphone/aux out from smart TVs? I have iFFALCON LED TV and I have the classic problem of really low dialogue and very high explosions and action in different apps. I think TVs do some DSP stuff to make the dialogues clearer on the...

I had built a home server with basic consumer hardware i5-8400 cpu, 56GB RAM, 120GB adata green SSD and lots of hard drives (4TB * 2, 10TB * 2, 6TB*1) in 2018. Running ubuntu 18.04 server and lots of services in docker. I also got a static ip along with bsnl fibernet, so I had setup a domain to...

You are better off just paying for google one for the 100GB version. It brings a lot more value than anything that you can host yourself because of features like automatic face tagging and searching photos by objects or place. Photos sync from phone also works great (on android at least). I have...

Electronics are also more expensive (~1.4x) in India compared to the US while the income in India is like 10x lower. This makes it even worse for us.

1) 2 of 1080p POE IP Camera and a POE Switch. 2) A quad port NIC.

I ended up paying it. But, there was a little confusion on the individual parcel customs price. I had two parcels- 1. Cost: 75.09 USD (3 items) (~5200 INR) (67.18 USD after discount) 2. Cost: 38.29 USD (1 item) (~2700 INR) The customs I had to pay were - 1. 2717 INR (Assessable value: 6386)...

I am being charged about Rs. 3700 as customs for 3 items I payed Rs.5000 (67.18 USD) for. This is almost 80% of the cost. The postman had called to inform that today. What can I do? I am in Hyderabad. Do I simply pay and accept the parcel? I asked the postman whether the customs charge can be...

I would expect Apple to honour the warranty. Don't screw up your phone more.

How are AMDs for virtualization these days? I have always heard intel chips having better support for virtualization, like supporting hardware passthrough.

The speakers are absolutely atrocious, so I don't use them at all. I don't use any external speakers, my macbook speakers are good enough, but mostly I use headphones.

I bought an android tv recently and the sound on 5.1 sources (hotstar, plex, netflix) is terrible. Too loud music and very quiet dialogues. I am not looking for a 5.1 setup. What I seem to need is an AV receiver which can downmix to 2 channels properly while increasing the center channel. All AV...

NUCs in India are overpriced. You can consider buying from AliExpress, way cheaper. If you get unlucky and get charged customs it is still ending up cheaper. Buy the ones with high number of orders and rating. Also there is a black Friday sale coming up. Don't buy any SSDs from there though...