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I owned a Maruti Celerio VXI AGS MY2020 for almost 5 years. And recently switched to a Tata Nexon Creative S+AMT. This post will talk about the difference in engines on both these cars and the effect it has on driving dynamics and mileage. First of all Maruti has 1L NA engine which is tuned frugally and returns very good mileage. I have seen it return 15kmpl in city with AC ON. And on highways it can hit 18-19kmpl fully loaded and with AC ON. Although this car is an economy hatchback and is not really tuned to cruising. That's why at 80-90kmph, engine is around 2800-3000 RPM and good mileage is observed around 80kmpl, and after that it drops. Plus the 1L 3-Cyl engine means not enough torque and so jerky driving in low speeds and ghats. Still for the low price even with AMT gearbox, very good value for money. Moving on to Nexon, the engine is 1.2L turbo-petrol. The turbo really spins at around 2000RPM and provides max boost. Although the engine maps provided are such that there'...

Bought a 1TB Samsung T7 SSD to replace the western digital one. Cost was 9000 INR. Quite costly but I'm hoping it pays off. It's specs as below: Samsung T7 1TB Up to 1,050MB/s USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps, Type-C) External Solid State Drive (Portable SSD) Grey(MU-PC1T0T) Performance of up to 1,050 MB/s, up to 9.5x faster than external HDD Interface: USB 3.2 Gen 2 (Up to 10Gbps). Backwards compatible. The host device and connection cable must support USB 3.2 Gen 2 to reach the maximum speed. Durable: Shock resistant internal frame lets the T7 withstand falls from up to 2 meters Security: Optional password protection and AES 256 bit hardware encryption Windows 7 and higher, Mac OS X 10.10 and higher, or Android 5.1 (Lollipop) and higher. Includes USB Type C to C and USB Type C to A cables Going to sync all the data to this one. I'm not moving the data right away. But I'm going to slowly move all of it to here while keeping other copies. If there's no ...

Current ones - Sennheiser HD439, Marshall Monitor II, Sony WI-C100 Past Ones from latest to oldest: Realme buds, Philips Wired Earbuds, Klipsch Image S3, Panasonic Headset, Generic Blues headset, Sony Wired earbuds, Generic earbuds. In last 20 years I have been through a bunch of earphones and headphones/headsets. I started with FM Radios and generic earbuds in my college days. This is around 2007-08, seems like an eternity away. We did not have mobiles back then. And the FM radios would take pencil cells. And would need new cells every fortnight. Anyway the music was good to ears. The first major upgrade was when I got my first Sony Mobile and it had inbuilt FM. I bought a decent pair of Sony earbuds at 600 bucks back then. That was $10 in 2008 I think. Those sound astronomically better than my earlier generic earphones. They did not last all that long I remember. Then thanks too recommendation from one of my gamer friends, I bought a Blues headset which was locally ...

So I'm in the middle of another HDD death. This time it's my WD 1TB. And by the name of this post I'm referring to my original post which talked about my earlier WD 320GB external HDD which died. And somehow I never made a post about it. And in fact I have never made a post about the tens of headphones which I tried and they died. Maybe I should make a catalogue of them. I don't really know what value such a thing to be for anyone except for a story. Anyway I don't listen to much music anymore. I just watch soaps most of the time like an old man. Anyway the thing is I observed that this drive was acting up for some photos when I copied them to the drive. It would hang up. So I'm thinking maybe it's about to die. Ideally I should buy another drive but as usual money is tight and so I just moved data here and there and then left non-critical data on the drive. Got some time today to dig into and found a very good program called Victoria that anal...