Featured

The Not-So-Pretty Side of Big Tech

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...

Install Paranoid Android Topaz On Pixel 6 / Pro /pixel 6a



                                                               Get the latest platform tools


Paranoid Android Topaz is a custom rom based on Android 13 that you can flash via fastboot given your device has an unlocked bootloader

Unzip the platform tools to wherever you like. In this case we will use C:\platform tools

Right-click on the downloaded rom zip file and tap copy as path 

Open a terminal in C:\platform tools and type the following:

.\fastboot -w

.\fastboot update "paste the path here"

This update (beta 2) has OTA (over-the-air) update functionality and is very stable

To root it, unzip the paranoid android rom zip file and send the boot.img to the phone and install the canary magisk from here


Tap install  and select and patch a file then browse to the boot.img file

The output will be in the Downloads folder in the internal storage

Send it back to the PC and open a terminal in the platform tools folder again

Copy the patched boot image files path ; 

.\fastboot boot "paste the copied path here"

Once the phone boots open magisk and tap install then direct install 


Comments