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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:...

Unlock The Bootloader on Windows Phone



Download windows phone internals and read the instructions. You might want to download windows device recovery tool from the windows phone internals app too 


Navigate to unlock bootloader and tap on  download all 




This will download two files , one for your device and possibly another ffu of the Lumia 950XL as well as the emergency files 

Note: don't try to unlock bootloader without emergency files. Also you might want to remove any sdcard 



Follow the prompts to boot the phone into flash mode






Enable 'show hidden files' in windows file explorer, the files you downloaded will be in C:\ProgramData\WPinternals\Repository

Tap on unlock and make a coffee etc, just don't touch the phone or exit wpinternals.

You can also flash the stock ffu at any time as well 

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