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Most of us grow up thinking that the things we buy and store online are ours. Games, apps, files, even the email addresses tied to our names. But big tech companies like Microsoft remind us that nothing in their ecosystem really belongs to us. Recently, Microsoft suspended my Outlook account. They claimed that my OneDrive contained “child porn.”  Let me be clear: I download adult videos from the open web. I am not a pedophile. Yet Microsoft’s algorithms, terms of service, and opaque enforcement systems flagged my content as illegal, locked me out of my account, and informed me that I cannot appeal for six months. When you use Microsoft services, you’re not really buying a product; you’re renting access. Their terms give them permission to scan files on your computer, in your cloud storage, and across your account. The moment something doesn’t fit their rules, they can revoke everything: your email, your purchased games, even the apps you’ve paid for. Microsoft’s policy is blun...

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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