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.

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.

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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If you go into the Styles menu (either the F10 or F11 key, I forgot) you can change the font of the Default Paragraph (or something akin to that name) to the font of your choice.

I haven’t used LibreOffice Writer in a while, though, so I’m not sure if that change will stay between sessions, but it should.

very, very, Very, VERY, VERY late edit for people from the future: The styles are saved in the .odt document itself

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.

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.

It’s funny seeing this like literally a couple days after I decided it would be easier to reinstall my Mint sysyem than to fix the audio issues Pipewire was causing. I’m back on PulseAudio and haven’t had issues since.