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It was a pain to find latest Android 10 firmware for Realme 3. The official website did not have anything for these old devices. One tool I found was a paid service. And unlocking bootloader also stopped working officially. The unofficial process was too complex. And what baffled me was I was just unable to find stock update files anywhere. After a lot of searching, finally found stock Android 10 update at below website. It contains lot more updates besides Realme 3. https://realmefirmware.com/realme-update/ So now I'm back to Android 10. The phone camera is probably as useless as earlier and I think maybe it's damaged by lasers or something else. Anyway I have a DSLR or iPhone to take photos anyway. So quest failed, but I think this phone should run for couple more years at current 66% SOH. It's not perfect, like the GPS conks off once in a while which I think has to do with loose connections due to cracked frame. Anyway let it run for as much as possibl...

So iPhone provides it's own over-engineered challenges. One of that is jpg files are compressed to heic to save about 30% space. But grabbing the files to computer is a pain. And then again you end up with these heic files. There's no inbuilt support for these in windows and no real benefit where storage is cheap. So I decided to save myself the pain and just convert them to jpg using image-magic. Of course, I did not have to code anything, found one ready-made script on the internet. ---------------------------------------------------- @echo off for %%a in (*.HEIC) do ( magick "%%a" "%%~na.jpg" ) echo Conversion complete. pause -----------------------------------------------------

I was originally against bluetooth speakers and headphones. But then I ended up with an IPhone. I tried dongle-life with a USB-C to 3.5mm jack dongle. Then one day I was talking about bluetooth headphones with my friend and found out that with black-friday there are a lots of deals going on. Looked around for a Sony WH-1000XM5 but it was still going out of budget. Then found out Marshall Monitor II ANC was going to be around 12K INR. So asked friend to buy it and finally friend was in India last month. Got the headphones and found them to be good quality and good value for money at the same time. Anyway now here's specs: PLAY TIME 30 hours with Bluetooth and ANC 45 hours with Bluetooth only WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth 5.0 There's nothing else to add. It's a closed-cup style design with foam-fake leather earcups that do good seal on their own. The ANC is good enough with very good suppression of noise. One problem I'm facing right now is a b...

It was a sunny morning of December 2024. My cousin Ketan had joined me for a trek to Torna Fort some 45km from home. We had couple of good flights for the drone. Some time later we reached the top of the fort and had one more flight. It was supposed to be a short flight with just 2-3 shots. I got the shots done, and was about to recall the drone. And then disaster struct, and the drone crashed to the hillside. It fell into some grass on a very steep hillside. getting there to retrieve the drone was not possible without any mountaineering help. Unfortunately so such help was available. So that was the end of drone 1.0. Sucked bad, but we did not let it dampen our spirits. Completed the trek and headed home. Feeling bad and letting it bother us was not possible because my cousin was here for few more days and I had a packed schedule with one more trek and couple of days of outings planned. So we did not let it bother us and instead completed the vacation. Aftermath was for me to look at ...