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How to Upgrade Manually to Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray"

  With the development cycle for Ubuntu 26.10 officially underway, Canonical has published stonking/snapshot-1 . For early adopters, developers, and enthusiasts looking to ride the absolute edge of the open-source wave, the temptation to jump from the stable shores of 26.04 LTS, Resolute Raccoon, into the development stream is strong. Because the automated release pathways are not populated so early in the cycle, the standard do-release-upgrade -d tool will politely decline to find the new branch. To make the leap, we must step past the guardrails and manage our repository tracking manually. > Important Prerequisite: Upgrading to a day-one snapshot moves your environment into a highly experimental space. Ensure all core personal files, configurations, and local development repositories are thoroughly backed up before executing these steps. Ubuntu 26.04 has transitioned to a modern, structured deb822 formatting layout for core package sources. This means standard mod...

Update and root Android 13 DP2 for pixel devices


Download the developer preview of Android 13 here

The easiest way to update pixel device's is with Android flashtool

make sure only 'force flash' and 'wipe device' is enabled in settings

After flash the firmware you can easily root it with magisk canary

Extract the firmware package 

Inside it will be another zip file, inside that copy the boot.img file and send it to the phone

Open the magisk app and tap install > patch an image 

The output will be in the downloads folder in internal storage. Copy it to PC

Left click it and tap 'copy as path'

Open a terminal in the platform tools folder 

.\adb devices 

Allow USB debugging

.\adb reboot bootloader

.\fastboot devices

You should see the phone connected if you installed the Google USB driver properly 

.\fastboot flash boot <path to magiskboot.img> 

.\fastboot reboot 



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