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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...

Flash a stock ffu on Windows phone with WPID

Windows phone image designer requires an ffu file from the Lumia firmware website 


Extract the zip file to C:\WPID andput the ffu in C:\

Use the 'start.bat' file to launch image designer

Power off the device and hold power and volume up until you see a lightning bolt

Open windows phone image designer and select :flash' and select the ffu file you downloaded

Tap on 'flash' and wait until it finishes


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