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SFOS Update v2.1.3.7 Kymijoki

I had seen this update few days back. Now a whike has passed and no more major breakage was reported, so I decided to go ahead and upgrade. This is mainly an enhancement update. I updated over commandline since I dont know if and when this will be available by Intex. As usual devel-su, followed by ssu re 2.1.3.7 and version --dup finished the upgrade. It was kind of small at 170MB mentioned on the Jolla Blog. After upgrade was complete I rebooted the aquafish and its working fine without any major breakage. The one thing I noticed is the UI now is even smoother and responsive. I intend to check out the enhancements one by one. And Im going to see if they have solved the WiFi issue I have been having with Enterprize wifi with MSChapV2 auth. Lets see. I have been using Aquafish for a while now. And my experience has been great overall. The battery life is great. The smoothness and speed is great. It feels much more value than my other cheap phone - Panasonic T44. But again the extr

The pervasive advertising behemoths

If you are using an Android phone, you must know the amount of user data that's getting shared with advertisers by the OS, the various Apps and maybe every webpage that you visit.  Yesterday I ordered a battery for our family camera. It's a Sony Cybershot W510. Nice entry level camera and it's working great all these years. Recently I noticed the battery life has taken a hit and this comes with a rechargeable battery. So I ordered one off Snapdeal for 700Rs. That's about $11 . I also searched for the battery on Amazon. I also did something else - added a W800 Cybershot to my Amazon wish list. I'll probably buy the newer one in couple of months and gift it to parents while I keep and use the old one. I do stuff like that. I keep the shittiest of things for myself and give everybody else better things.  Anyway this morning I just added a file in ADM downloader app. And at the bottom there was a Amazon add for W810 Cybershot cam. Spooky!!! Makes me hate targeted advert