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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • I can answer that as an Indian casually in the market for an EV. The infrastructure isn’t really as good as western countries. Charging stations aren’t easy to find outside of major highways, and they aren’t as visible.

    For intra-city users:

    EVs are considerably more expensive than ICEs and India is a very price-sensitive market. The biggest successes for EVs here are Tata Nexons, for example. The ICE version starts at almost half the price of the EV.

    Buyers will compare and run the numbers and unless you use it a lot, it can go either way. That combined with the iffy infrastructure is enough to make many people just go for ICE right now, in the hope that their next car will be an EV, when prices come down and tech is next-gen.

    It is bound to happen. Prices are falling and more EVs are on the road, but it hasn’t reached critical mass yet.

    Also, BYDs are actually quite expensive here compared to home grown solutions. Check the Tata EV range out.

    Another factor that you’re overlooking is that India has a huge market of 2 wheelers, 3 wheelers and mini trucks. That’s a space where EVs make a lot of sense. They pay for themselves the more you use them.

    So in food delivery, logistics, courier services etc., there’s already a very noticeable shift in motion, and that’s promising.













  • Not hybrid watches but Garmin watches have a passive LCD screen that is readable under reflected light and the app is excellent, albeit proprietary.

    I have a Fossil hybrid and Garmin Instinct and wear the instinct most of the time. I find the Fossil app too basic and it drains battery. I have heard about an open source app that can sync to them however.




  • Some banking apps are not working.

    • Install Magisk
    • Install Magisk Hideprops Config and Universal Safetynet Fix
    • Enable zygisk and add your banking app to the exception list
    • If your app still detects magisk as an app you can ask magisk to hide itself, or create a separate ‘work’ profile using Island (couldn’t figure out how to link it, it’s the app by Oasis Feng on the Play Store).

    You’ll need to do reinstall magisk after every system update, doesn’t take too long.


  • Oh that’s what I had to do for my Mi 11x/F3 as well. Good to hear. I remember reading that Xiaomi had gone the way of Samsung and completely stopped official unlocks.

    I believe the reason they do this is because some resellers were unlocking the bootloader and installing a ROM with malware and selling that off to unsuspecting customers. This delay (and needing to be registered with a phone number) makes that process both impractical and easy to detect.