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    Indian Sites for Electronics DIY Tinkerers/Makers to Shop for Tools and Components

    If you can wait a bit (~20 days), Robu offers cheaper PCB service with much better output quality (perfect silkscreen among other varied things) than LionCircuits. Regular customer here of both vendors. I suspect that Robu actually get their PCBs done from JLCPCB or a very very similar vendor...
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    Indian Sites for Electronics DIY Tinkerers/Makers to Shop for Tools and Components

    Just want to add that the https://www.theengineerstore.in/ folks indulge in fraud behavior. I ordered and paid for expensive 'Silver Mica' caps and they sent cheap "25 paisey" regular disc caps instead. Pretty fraudulent behavior!
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    Reprogram lg remote to not start ac in energy saver mode

    Mass manufactured remotes are likely to use OTP chips. Two ideas if you like software and hardware projects: - Build a custom, tiny IR remote for this AC. Extra bonus points for doing it under 50 INR or 100 INR. - If your phone has an IR transmitter LED, write an Android app to transmit the...
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    FS: Others Ender 3 Pro 3D printer

    This was sold a while back. Requesting mods (@puns) to please close the threads - thank you!
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    FS: Photography Lowepro camera bag (used)

    I don't remember the model number of this Lowepro bag.
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    Self-Hosting & ISP Challenges: CG-NAT, Upload Speed, and Workarounds - Share Your Experiences!

    I am on Airtel and incoming 443 port is blocked. So I simply host my solar powered webserver on the alt-tls port which 8443. Works fine enough for me.
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    Need help in deciding an air conditioner - 1 ton vs 1.5 ton

    LG installation was free IIRC. We haven't had the need for LG ASS in last 3-4 years (touch wood). For Daikin, the installation is sometimes free (during offers) and sometimes not free it seems. So please double-check if your chosen brand and model has free installation. I chose Daikin this time...
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    Need help in deciding an air conditioner - 1 ton vs 1.5 ton

    Vijay Sales has stopping selling Panasonic ACs here quoting "Poor ASS". Indeed their service was not technically competent and we had to get our Panasonic AC fixed via a third-party service. I am NOT impressed by the LG 1.5T AC we have - no obvious problems but the repaired Panasonic cools much...
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    Suggestions for Soldering Iron

    Here is what I have been using for SMD (fine) work: https://babaocamachine.com/product/baba-i12-soldering-iron-station-esd-safe-temperature-adustable-with-supported-t210-or-t245-handle/
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    News Certain type of gaming provides “substantial benefits” to mental well-being

    As a kid I used to enjoy games but now they feel somewhat stressful and a waste of time and energy. And I just got a Retro FPGA powered gaming system for myself...
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    ACT Fibernet silently cuts FUP from 3300GB to 1500GB

    Nope - it seems the "API" endpoint has changed. I will take a look soon.
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    FS: Others Flipper Zero with WiFi module

    Feedback shared as well - thank you! Mods - this thread can be closed now.