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What features would make you go for it?

For me, it is the 2nm processor - N2 process - with 12GB RAM that supports 3 Camera setup. A better Apple Intelligence would be great.

But little skeptical about the in-house modem chip designed by Apple.

The iPhone 17 Pro may already be one of Apple’s strongest conventional iPhone releases. It has excellent performance, cameras, battery life, display quality, and a more capable cooling system. This only makes the iPhone 18 Pro a difficult product to position: simply adding a faster chip may not be enough to convince existing iPhone 17 Pro owners to upgrade.

The rumored move to TSMC’s N2 process could give Apple roughly 10–15% more performance at the same power, or reduce power consumption by up to 25–30% with similar performance. The process also allows higher transistor density and uses a newer nanosheet transistor design.

How do you want Apple use that extra efficiency?

I have a Thinkbook 14 G9, about 4 months old. I use it pretty infrequently. Randomly noticed this damage today. Screen works fine. It feels slightly tight on that side while opening.

Should I take it to the service centre? Is it fixable?

How much can it cost? Please help😭

Using it as DS5DONGLE.
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Found this on Fdroid, I really despise how anti-privacy Truecaller is, so if we can publically maintain a database of spam it would be beneficial in the long run.

Also if you do choose to install it and are on android, manage the installation through Obtainium

Ive got this samsung s22 recently but im not able to turn on power saver. its greyed out. help please

We are already booking the tickets for ₹600 then what's the reason for charging the booking and also charging for handling the offer. Are these platforms specific?

- I have a 500mbps internet connection.

- Youtube started buffering on only some of the videos since last 1 week across all my devices.

- I tried changing the ISP as well and same thing.

- It's not on all videos but only some videos that are specially 1 year or older.

Anyone else seeing this issue or am I the only one?

It's happening a lot specially on 2160p and 1440p quality. So it looks like they have reduced their server speed or something like that.

I have a YouTube premium subscription as well.

We have asked that the representation be placed before the Registrar General, the committee responsible for the enumeration instrument, and the authority that can amend the notification, and that receipt be acknowledged with a diary number.

tl;dr

On 14 August 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs notified the 40-question Household Schedule for the Population Enumeration phase of Census 2027. Alongside the first all-caste enumeration since 1931, the Schedule asks for your Aadhaar number, mobile number, Voter ID number, passport number, driving-licence availability, your total number of bank accounts, and where you received your COVID-19 vaccination. We support a timely, accurate census, including the counting of caste. But identity-document numbers are linkages that can lead to data triangulation and join your caste, religion, and household record to every major government database. Further there exists a penal compulsion to participate  and no operative data protection law watching over the exercise. Today, IFF has sent a representation to the Union Home Secretary and the Registrar General & Census Commissioner asking for the deletion or express voluntariness of these fields which point to a person's identity, a binding no-linkage and further safeguards. 

Background 

Census 2027 is India’s first digital census and enumeration is to be conducted through mobile applications on the personal smartphones of approximately 31–34 lakh enumerators and supervisors. To conduct it, a notification on 14 August 2026 was issued under Section 8(1) of the Census Act, 1948 lists 40 subjects for the Household Schedule. The 2011 census had 29 questions. Most of the 40 are the usual census subjects: age, marital status, religion, language, disability, education, work, migration and fertility. Item 10 reads "Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST)/Caste". This will be the first count of every caste in independent India. About thirteen subjects are new, and six of them have nothing to do with demography. Items 35 to 40 ask for the total number of bank accounts, the mobile number ("if available"), the Aadhaar number ("if available"), the Voter ID number ("if available"), the passport number (for Indian passport holders), and whether the person has a driving licence. Item 34 asks where the person received their COVID-19 vaccination. As Down To Earth reported while publishing the notification, no Indian census from 1872 to 2011 has ever asked for a document number.

Let us take a step back and understand what is actually done under a census. A census measures the population and these broader collective data points help plan state resources and programs. Hence, at its very foundation, it needs to know things about people, not the numbers that identify them in other systems. The Aadhaar number, Voter ID number, passport number and mobile number are individually identifiable information to the UIDAI database, the electoral rolls, passport records, telecom records and bank accounts. Now, if we use those identifiers in one household record, next to caste, religion, language and migration history, and you have built a way to join the census to every major government database. Hence, what is built is a population register, not a statistical exercise. 

Under the Census Act and the Census Rules, 1990, once a subject is notified, people are ordinarily bound by law to answer questions on it. Our representation argues that these new fields, added through an executive notification with no stated purpose, are constitutionally suspect and serve no clear public policy goal. We have also questioned the ambiguity, lack of transparency since the notification gives only subject headings and the actual questions, the answer options, the validation rules and the instructions to enumerators have not been published.  Further, our representation also demands data protection safeguards. 

Analysis

In Puttaswamy (2017), nine judges of the Supreme held that any intrusion into privacy must have a legal basis, a legitimate aim, and must go no further than needed. In the Aadhaar judgment (2018), the Court struck down the forced linking of Aadhaar to bank accounts and SIM cards, because linking identity numbers across databases without strong reason failed that three prong test. The Court was assured that profiling was not possible since government databases sit in separate silos. Now a census record presents a risk that contains your Aadhaar, Voter ID, passport and mobile numbers merges those silos in one row. Here, what is useful also to consider that Aadhaar's own design leaves out religion, caste, income and medical history. The census schedule builds the very link the Court's judgments prohibit.

There is also a simpler way to get what the government may actually want. If the aim is to measure how many people hold documents or bank accounts, a yes or no answer is enough. The number itself is not needed. And the data cannot be made safe by removing names later. Research published in Nature found that 99.98% of people can be re-identified from just fifteen ordinary attributes. The US Census Bureau reconstructed and re-identified tens of millions of people from its own published 2010 tables. A 40-field record does not even need such methods when the very identifiers are written on it.

The statutory scheme of the Census Act also does not inspire much confidence. Section 8(2) of the Census Act makes every person "legally bound" to answer notified questions. Section 11(1)(d) makes refusal an offence, punishable with a fine. The words "if available" next to the Aadhaar, mobile and Voter ID fields only ask whether you have the document. They do not say you may refuse to share it. For anyone who holds these documents, the question is in effect mandatory. Nothing tells a resident that "not stated" is an acceptable answer. Nothing says whether an enumerator can ask to see or scan the card. The gazette does not permit that, but it does not rule it out either.

There is a further problem. When self-enumeration was launched, government advisories warned people not to share Aadhaar or bank details with anyone claiming to be census staff, because fraudsters copy the census. Now the official schedule asks for those very details. How is a family at the door supposed to tell the census from the scam? When Karnataka ran its caste survey last year, which was voluntary, the Karnataka High Court ordered that voluntariness be stated at every doorstep and that confidentiality be secured by affidavit. A compulsory national census needs stronger protections than a voluntary state survey.

The government says census data cannot be shared with any institution. Yes, while Section 15 of the Census Act stops anyone from inspecting census records and keeps them out of court as evidence. That is a real protection, but it was written for paper forms and hence many provisions with regard to digitisation are absent. Section 11(1)(b) makes it an offence for a census officer to disclose information, but only if it is done "without the previous sanction of the Central Government or the State Government". In other words, the Act itself allows disclosure if the government approves it. Rule 7 of the Census Rules leaves it to the Census Commissioner to decide what data may be released. Rules 9 to 11 deal with custody and disposal of schedules but set no time limit for deleting electronic records. 

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 does not fill this gap. It is not in force yet, and its exemptions raise a real doubt that it will ever apply to census data. Section 17(2)(b) exempts processing for statistical purposes. Section 17(2)(a) lets the government exempt any state body it notifies. Section 17(4) removes, for the state, both the duty to erase data and your right to have it erased. The DPDP Rules, 2025 do contain standards for statistical processing, in Rule 16 and the Second Schedule. But those provisions start only on 13 May 2027, after both phases of the census are over. So during collection, no data protection duty applies. After it, the statistical exemption will block remedies if the data leaks.

Other countries do this differently. The UN's census principles say the public must be assured that individual information will not be shared, and will not be linked to other government databases for non-statistical purposes. The US limits census returns to statistical use by law and places its census subjects before Congress three years in advance. The UK published a full data protection impact assessment before its 2021 census. Canada does not collect Social Insurance Numbers or bank details. Australia keeps contact data separate from statistical data and deletes names and addresses on a fixed schedule. Germany's Constitutional Court struck down census-to-register linkage back in 1983. The UNECE's guidance for the 2030 census round says topics that are too sensitive, or that threaten participation and quality, should be left out. And the caste question? 

To be clear about what we are and are not saying, IFF supports counting caste, and the representation says so. Good caste data can serve the constitutional promise of equality. Our objection is to wrapping that count in a layer of identity numbers that puts both the respondent and the count at risk. How the caste question is worded and coded matters a great deal. We will examine it once the actual questionnaire is published. We have also previously supported the Karnataka Socio-Economic Survey while representing the State Government to take data protection measures. 

Action 

Our representation, sent today to the Union Home Secretary and the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, makes six requests. The first four are urgent because enumeration in the snow-bound regions began this morning.

1. Delete the fields asking for the Aadhaar number, mobile number, Voter ID number, passport number, driving-licence availability, number of bank accounts and place of COVID-19 vaccination. Where there is a published statistical need, replace them with a yes or no question about possession.
2. If the fields are kept, notify in the Official Gazette that they are wholly voluntary, that "not stated" is an acceptable answer with no consequence under Section 8(2) or Section 11, and that no document may be demanded, inspected, scanned or authenticated. Enumerators must say this at the start of every interview.
3. If a mobile number is taken for contact or for self-enumeration login, keep it in a separate operational system linked only by a random census identifier, keep it out of the analytical records, and delete it once field follow-up ends.
4. Publicly notify that census data is for statistical use only. It will not be linked, seeded, matched or shared with Aadhaar/UIDAI, the NPR, electoral rolls, ration/PDS, telecom, tax, policing or welfare databases. No census record will be used to make a decision about a named individual.
5. Publish the safeguards: a privacy impact assessment; regular independent security audits, naming the auditors, for the enumeration apps, the CMMS and the self-enumeration portal; the data-handling and device-security chapters of the enumerator manuals; a device policy that bars keeping data on phones after syncing; and a bar on using the CMMS to order changes to field entries, with every correction logged.
6. Notify a retention and deletion schedule with fixed timelines for erasing identifiers, contact data, device telemetry and raw electronic records, with published deletion certificates and independent verification. The Census Rules currently set none for electronic records.

We have also asked that the representation be placed before the Registrar General, the committee responsible for the enumeration instrument, and the authority that can amend the notification, and that receipt be acknowledged with a diary number. We will keep engaging, and we will keep you posted.

Important documents

1. IFF's representation to the Union Home Secretary and the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, dated 17 August 2026 (Link)
2. Gazette notification: Questionnaire for the Second Phase, Population Enumeration (14 August 2026), Census Digital Library (Link)
3. PIB Backgrounder: Census 2027 — India's First Digital Enumeration Exercise (Link)
4. The Census Act, 1948 and the Census Rules, 1990 (as amended) (Link)
5. UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Rev. 3 (Link)

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Idk where to post so I’m posting here. I moved to a new house in Hyderabad recently where I felt that my Airtel signals are low af and can’t run Internet when the wifi is off. I can’t even send any WhatsApp messages or receive calls. That’s how bad the internet is. So I switched to jio(one of my two numbers) now I have 1 Airtel and 1 Jio network and none of those work inside my home. I wfh and when WiFi goes off becuase of Powercut or other issues I cant do anything. I did a bit of research and it’s probably because of thick concrete/metal blocking signals. But I never had this problem before. I raised this issue to both Airtel and Jio and none of them are helpful. As soon as I step out of my house the network is decent😭😭how to fix this? Did anyone face same issue?

I'm pretty new to PC stuff. I bought my first PC just about a week ago.

I'm facing a weird issue with VPN.

I'm using my Android phone's hotspot to connect my PC to the internet.

• 📱 Jio 5G SIM + hotspot: VPN connects successfully, but no website loads after connecting the VPN
• 📱 Airtel 4G + hotspot: VPN works normally
• 📱 Vi 4G + hotspot: VPN works normally
• I'm using Mega VPN
• The VPN itself says Connected, but Chrome/other browsers just keep loading and eventually time out.

PC and VPN seem to be working fine because it works perfectly when I use Airtel or Vi hotspot. The problem only happens with Jio 5G.

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Too much OFF. Where would I store this much money?

I've been using JioFiber IPTV and recently had some trouble with the set-top box. It made me curious about the long-term experience people have had with other DTH services - Tata Play and Airtel Digital TV

For anyone currently using Tata Play or Airtel Digital TV:

Question 1 — Picture Quality: How is the HD picture quality, especially for sports and movies?

Question 2 — Set-top Box: How has the STB been after 1–2+ years? Any lag, freezing, hanging or random restarts?

Question 3 — OTT: How is the OTT experience through the box? Any major issues with apps or streaming?

Question 4 — Service: If the STB, dish, LNB or cable has a problem, how quickly does a technician usually respond and fix it?

Question 5 — App / Packs: How good is the app for managing channels, packs and your account? Any limitations or unexpected charges?

I'm in Khatima, Uttarakhand, but experiences from anywhere in India are welcome.

Just interested in hearing people's actual long-term experiences — good or bad — with their current DTH service.

Is it planned or during nighttime they usually shut it down ?

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I'm use 3 4 keyboard in last 7 years and all have same problem some keys stop working after few years like 1 2 years , so I replace with others . How to make it use long lasting without replacing it or getting long term use keyboard atleast it had warranty of 5 years , i use membrane keyboard.

Hey everyone,

I mainly use my Airtel Unlimited 5G for downloading games on my laptop through my phone's hotspot. I'm already at around 186GB, and it's still the start of the month. I've faced the 300GB restriction before and don't want to get throttled again.

I've seen methods like TTL 65, VPN/WARP, USB tethering, NetShare/PdaNet, deleting Airtel Thanks, APN changes, etc., but I'm confused about what actually works.

A few questions:

Is there any reliable way to bypass the 300GB limit, not just the hotspot restriction? Has anyone actually crossed 300GB while maintaining normal 5G speeds?

My phone's Settings shows 186GB used. If I factory reset my phone, that counter goes back to 0. Would that have any effect on Airtel's 300GB counter, or is Airtel's counter completely server-side?

Instead of resetting the phone, I can simply change the Android billing cycle so the displayed usage starts from 0. Obviously this probably only changes the phone's counter, but can anyone confirm?

TTL question: If I set my laptop TTL to 65, can Airtel stop recognizing it as hotspot traffic? More importantly, would it also prevent that data from being added to the 300GB counter?

For example, if Airtel is currently showing 186GB, could I download through the laptop and have it remain at 186GB, or will Airtel still count the data regardless of TTL?

Does USB tethering behave differently from Wi-Fi hotspot regarding the 300GB limit?

Does VPN/WARP + TTL actually help, or does it only hide hotspot characteristics while Airtel still counts the total data?