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?

Yeah I thought I was seeing things but nope, actual E.Y.E meme. I still need to 100% it

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

asterisk*

You see these in Poland every now and then, just with an actual central hole. I remember seeing these in my school, we used to call it srajtaśma (“shit tape” is the best translation I can think of), and it was just as bad as you described it. It also had a very particular smell to it.

I checked it out but I’m afraid I’m already way too rooted into paint.net to invest my time into learning mtP 😅 Still a neat program, though! Its age gives it a nice charm to it.

This is the first time I hear of it, actually. I’ll check it out!

Good 'ol paint.net, for which I still have to fire up a VM, because no other Linux program can replicate the workflow. I tried many, and out of all of them Pinta and Krita were relatively close, but still far from what I was used to, before I switched operating systems. I could technically try dedicated pixel art programs, but I’m more than fine working with what I got.

I’ve been using proton for a few months now with a yearly Mail Plus subscription and I have yet to receive an actual spam e-mail. Your experience might be different than mine since I take precautions not to invite spam in the first place, but even then, Proton looks to be doing an excellent job

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)

Apps - Photo editing and 3D CAD are the main areas I’ve struggled with on Linux

Yeah, I feel that. Paint.net is the sole reason I still fire up my Windows VM every now and then.

The closest you can get is Pinta and even then, looking at the surface things may seem very similar, but the workflow is totally different (it doesn’t even have overscroll god damn it!) and the plugin scene is deader than dead. I wanted to code a proper replacement based on Pinta, but I haven’t got the motivation or time for that.

If I wanna edit an image, firing up a VM is still genuinely faster than trying to work with Pinta or GIMP or any other opensource alternative for that matter. Krita has surprisingly been pretty good at replicating the workflow, but it still falls short.

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