I know the pain. Before I found a very obscure device fingerprint I could do a little spoofing with, I basically had to search the web like once a month for something that would let me bypass PIAPI again. It was exhausting.

Ironically enough soon after I found that obscure fingerprint I switched to paying with my credit card instead of my phone since my banking app couldn’t let me turn on contactless payments with my phone for whatever reason.

I think ZH is the language code for Chinese, while CN is just the country code

Eh, I’ve done more daunting things before so if all fails I guess I’ll just be mousing away at the phone until i get it. Thanks for the help!

Is it possible by any chance to input a pattern with a keyboard? From what I managed to look up it doesn’t seem like it, but I couldn’t find a definite answer.

Thanks for the write-up! Seems like I’ll have to indeed resort to externals or to my home PC like u/catloaf said.

I also tried booting into safe mode, and after I modified the process you listed a bit I was able to get into safe mode (judging by the brief lock screen flash with Safe mode in the bottom left), but unfortunately it didn’t overwrite the OS setting, so that option is out of the question as well. I could also check if USB/ADB connectivity changes at all in safe mode, but I’m afraid it will not.

I need the data, yes. If I didn’t I would’ve wiped it from the start.

In Polish we use “24 godziny na dobę” which means 24 hours per day

That’s insane. If it doesn’t bother you, how did it feel? How long was the drive? What happened afterwards?

Oh jeez I didn’t realise you were talking in context of just the 40 series and thought you meant all the cards 😅 My mistake.

Apologies in advance, but you have got to be bloody insane to think the 4070ti is a midrange card.

Linux Mint install one of the hull it on the way do i dont trust them om

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I know, but I figured I might as well use the occasion to joke around a bit

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Yep, that’s how they work on my T440. It’s quite convenient even if I don’t trust them to stay in at times (one managed to fall out already)

One of the reasons I like Thinkpads so much is the support of the community with mods, parts and so on. Feel free to hmu if you need Thinkpad help lol.

That’s specifically why I got mine. It’s a shame I couldn’t find good deals on a T440P in my area but even the regular T440 should be enough for my needs. Thanks for the link btw! Interesting that the T440 has a military certification lmao

oh damn, i didn’t realize you can get boards like that! i thought they all had the i3, so i didn’t bother to look. thanks a lot!

yeah that’s what i figured would happen, but it’s worth a shot anyway

Weird, the software manager (using LM 21.3) reports 1.1GB dl, 2.4GB installed (which is different from when i checked yesterday for some reason?). flatpak install reports around 2.1GB of dependencies and the package itself at just 1.3MB

EDIT: nvm im stupid, the other reply explains the discrepancy

It CAN get pretty wild sometimes, though. For example, Flameshot (screenshotting utility) is only ~560KB as a system package, while its flatpak version is ~1.4GB (almost 2.5k times as big)

For the past few years, I just install the latest stable version of anything I use and never bother touching or tweaking anything … never had a problem since.

And that’s exactly how I’m trying to approach everything after the reinstall. I like tinkering with my system, but after a couple months it really starts messing with everything.