The register of titles

Prices the cost of staying put — the cheap mechanic that costs more in the end, the IT job held two years too long, the phone upgrade deferred through a 69% price rise.

How India’s payment rails and device rules reshape ordinary spending, and how to choose a television without overpaying: UPI credit, EV-charging fragmentation, OLED against QLED.

Judges home technology by what a room is actually like once the equipment is in it: frame rate over resolution, whether a service carries Atmos at all, what the toll and the service centre really cost.

Runs screens, sound and storage head to head and names a winner, and follows the money in streaming — free ad-supported services beating paid subscriptions, smart TVs selling advertising before you watch anything.

Follows devices across their whole life, from a 2012 MacBook Pro to its failure, through Apple Watch charging and battery drain, to the backup gaps left by Time Machine and WhatsApp.

Wi-Fi 7 or 6E, Matter or not yet, why the soundbar will not hold 5 GHz — the setup and upgrade questions people actually hit at home, including when the honest answer is to wait.

One argument held consistently: if a device cannot be repaired, backed up locally, or kept past its warranty, that is the story — repairability indices, two-year warranty terms, NAS against cloud.

Recovering value already paid for: free replacements, DIY SSD swaps, swollen batteries, and the banking and tax rules that say what you are entitled to demand.

Telecom and connectivity in India argued from the subscriber’s side: TRAI’s silence, BSNL’s revival, Airtel support failures, and whether internet access should be treated as a utility.

The half of an Indian online purchase that starts after delivery — marketplace failures, work-from-home job scams, and the paid intermediaries quietly pushing small sellers out of search.

AI tools weighed against each other — AI browsers against Chrome, Figma AI against Firefly against Canva — alongside the voice-cloning scams aimed at Indian families that arrived with them.

Goes past the product to the standard behind it — universal OBD ports, KYC names on caller ID, dash-cam mandates, post-quantum encryption — arguing for what should be compulsory rather than reviewing what exists.

Takes apart the decisions behind Apple’s products — the notch, the menu bar, a 3nm chip that underdelivered, a 5GB storage floor — and asks whether you can actually move your mail and files somewhere else.

Every post starts from something a major platform does not do — no battery-health indicator on iPad, no right-to-repair support in India, no shared file system between macOS and Windows — then argues for the fix.

How a silent layoff actually starts, what a return-to-office mandate does to health, and the 48-hour deadline India’s full-and-final settlement rules now place on employers.