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    Storage Solutions Alketron SSDs

    Buying storage solutions from unknown vendors, especially when people have zero experience with their RMA policy, is a suicide. Unless anyone wants to take one for the team by buying their SSDs and using for long-term (six months to over a year), there's no point discussing. Also, if you really...
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    PC Peripherals PC Speakers 2.0 / 2.1

    For 2.0, my suggestion would be to spend some more and get the Presonus Eris 3.5 for around 12-13K. There's also the Mackie CR3X at 10K and CR4X at 13K. However, there are concerns about Mackie's long term reliability. However, for 2.1 I'd say take a look at the Sony D20 for around 8K.
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    News Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone

    Indeed. I mean full-priced video games like Call of Duty are now showing ads on their main loading screens. It's a menace.
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    News Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone

    So, on 14th of August 2022, Mark Gurman, a reliable Bloomberg journalist covering news related to Apple, speculated the chance of Apple showing ads on their devices...
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    A good write-up on AMD RDNA3 graphics.

    Unless AMD brings major improvements in their lacklustre driver support and AI/ML functionality, Nvidia will still remain the king. Gone are the days when pure compute power wins. It's the age of AI/ML and even though AMD FSR 2.0 is good in the sense that it's open-source and even supported by...
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    [Update: Ban Lifted] VLC Media Player banned in India

    This only happens when you download VLC from an untrusted source and one has to be really stupid (excruciatingly stupid) to download an open-source software from an untrusted source, when the official source comes first on the Google SERP. Cicada (aka the hackers) is modifying one of the VLC...
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    Should I upgrade from Blon BL03? Budget of 2-3k

    Chifi has a come a long way since the days of Vsonics in India, when the only reputed store was Hifinage. I have too used and suggested plenty Vsonic IEMs circa 2014-2015. However, the market is a whole lot different today. The options are routinely better and you get more out of your investment.
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    Should I upgrade from Blon BL03? Budget of 2-3k

    For neutral/bright neutral sound signatures, I'd suggest picking up either the Fiio FH1S or the Dunu Titan S. The Titan S is better in terms of frequency response and tonality, while the FH1S will provide you better sub-bass, details and resolution. The Knowles BA on the FH1S has been tuned...
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    Should I upgrade from Blon BL03? Budget of 2-3k

    Anything around the 2K INR price point will be a major upgrade over the Piston. You can choose from the BL03, CRA and Lea. Pair a good USB-C dongle with the same, and you'll be good to go.
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    Should I upgrade from Blon BL03? Budget of 2-3k

    If you like the sound signature of the BL03, that means you like bass-inducing, laid-back, warm and smooth sound. Hence, you'll not like the T2 or the Moondrop SSR/SSP. These are mid-focused IEMs with peaky treble. I'd rather suggest looking at the Tripowin x HBB Mele. Comes at around 5K and...
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    Remotely playing games on PC

    I suggest trying out The Gaming Project. It's a cloud gaming service based in India and offers 20 hours playtime for 199 INR (which would be enough for your use case). Simply use your Steam library for playing. https://thegamingproject.co/pricing
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    25-30k Will Galaxy A52s 5G bought in India work on US carriers?

    Get an iPhone if you want your Indian variant to work flawlessly with the US carriers.
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    Pixel 6a launched

    The 6A has the same heating and throttling issues as the previous Exynos chipsets: Also, the security on the 6A is bad, as can be exhibited from the fingerprint scanner issue here:
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    Audiophile and gears

    Just because you've spent on an expensive amp, doesn't mean it's worth it. This isn't a post for your confirmation bias. Multiple hobbyists including Crinacle, Joshua Valour, Timmy Vangtan as well as the entire headphone community on Reddit discourage people from buying expensive amps/dacs. For...
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    10-15K Looking for mobile handset for self use with auto call record options

    Samsung is your only option currently. Take a look at the F22. Comes with an OLED display, 6000 mah battery, Mediatek G80 SoC, updated to Android 12 and the 6GB/128GB variant falls under 15K INR.
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    40K+ Iphone 11 pro or iphone 12

    Honestly, I'd suggest holding up. This is July already and the next batch of iPhones are coming out in 1-2 months time. As a result, you'll be able to pick up the iPhone 12 new for the same price you're paying for the old now. And if I had to pick between the two, I'd go for the 11 Pro. Better...
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    Audiophile and gears

    The ratio of headphone to amps/dacs should ideally be 4:1. Instead, this guy went the other way around, spending more than four times the amount he spent on his pair of headphones.
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    How do you make an insta reel go viral?

    If the success of your business depends on a virality of a reel, then you're doing it wrong. There are various other effective ways to get customers and pushing a viral reel isn't one of them. You need a steady stream of loyal, paying customers and you can't achieve that if the focus is only on...
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    Steam vs. Epic store. when both list the same game for same price without any discount

    Miser? Definitely. However, there's no denying that Steam has pushed the PC industry forward. At a time when Epic backed out of the PC business in 2008 because of Gears, Xbox and blaming everything on piracy, Steam held its own. I have been using Steam for the past decade and the evolution of...
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    Steam vs. Epic store. when both list the same game for same price without any discount

    The psychological aspect of "free" things is that - people tend to less appreciate things that come to them for free. Case in point, Epic doing free giveaways for almost 3 years now and still not even close to Steam in terms of revenue/market share. The thing is - when you've built your...