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I Turned ON All Ubuntu Telemetry.

I  did something today that will make certain corners of the internet audibly gasp. I didn’t disable telemetry. I didn’t firewall it. I didn’t put on a tinfoil hat and boot into a Faraday cage. No. I installed every Ubuntu data-donation tool and opted in manually like a lunatic with intent. Yes. Telemetry. On. All of it. Step 1: Installing the “evil” telemetry tool First, I installed Ubuntu’s main data-donation package: sudo apt update sudo apt install ubuntu-report Then I looked at the data it collects: ubuntu-report And what did I see? CPU model GPU model RAM size Screen resolution Oh no. My computer… exists . Step 2: Opting in aggressively Not satisfied with a passive existence, I explicitly told Ubuntu: ubuntu-report -f send yes That’s right. Not “ask me later” . Not “maybe” . YES. SEND IT. Somewhere, a Canonical server blinked awake like: “Another one has chosen… participation.” Step 3: Package usage stats (aka “He installed VLC”) Next up:...

interop unlock Lumia 950/XL

This is the easiest way to interop unlock Lumia 950, 950XL since it can't be done with interop tools 




2. Extract the iutool.7zip

3. Extract the  acer.service.acersystemservice.spkg to "C:\acer"

4. Install the vcreg appx and dependencies in developer mode

5. Connect the Lumia to PC and copy the  NdtkSvc.dll and newndtksvc.dll to the Documents folder in internal storage

6. Open command prompt as administrator and type: 

"cd C:\iutool"
"iutool.exe -v -p C:\acer" the phone should reboot to gears. If not manually reboot

You should see the gears.

8. Go to step 2 in vcreg app and follow the prompts. It will ask to reboot device couple of times

Install interop tools appxbundle from here 

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