[-] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

I did. Still nothing.

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Device: Thinkpad X280 (refurbished)

  • Intel i5 7th gen
  • 8GB ^LP?^DDR4 (soldered)
  • Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC

My laptop is not turning on, and there is absolutely no signs of life. No lights, no fans, no heat, NOTHING!

What was I doing before the problem: It was just a usual day. I used the laptop to do some office work, I shut it down (I think it had a Windows update with it that day), didn't use it for a day after that, and now it wouldn't turn on when I needed it.

Things I did to fix the problem:

  • Removing the battery and the CMOS for 2 days and reseating doesn't do it. Some guides even said to press the power button (without both or either batteries) or the reset button at the back of the laptop (tried with and without both or either batteries). All of them didn't work.
  • I checked if it was even receiving power in the first place, by:
    • Plugging in the charger on either USB-C ports (with different chargers, all of which are working on other laptops). Doing this, you should see:
      • the dot in the i blink three times light up
      • the light beside the port or the power button light up
      • the peripherals plugged in (mouse, keyboard, etc.) light up
      • All of them didn't work.
    • Letting the laptop plugged in for an hour to see if it gets warm. It was colder than my girlfriend.

I've tried everything I can. I'm left to think it's a motherboard problem and I'm gonna have to let this be fixed by a technician.

Is there nothing more I can do?

Please help.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the help.

Don't mind the I can’t see who downvoted you part, that was just bad English in my end. What I meant was "I can't see how many downvoted you.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the work!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Show the result of upvotes minus downvotes, you will see a heart icon with the result in comments.

It shows in some comments and posts, but not all.

This marks your account as a bot.

Does this affect how my account is viewed on other frontends or like how my account works? I mean I won't enable it but I gotta ask now.

I think you can understand the others.

I don't think I really understand.

I disabled all Show scores, Show upvotes, Show downvotes, Show upvote %, and I don't think anything really happens. I mean I can still see them all (or some of them), and like now I have all of them enabled but I can't see who downvoted you, what's your upvote percentage and your score (although just as I said, this doesn't happen to all) - I can only see how many upvotes you have.

Also I don't know what Show read posts means.

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I get the first three and the last two but the others. When I switch them, they don't really seem to do anything except for the Show Avatars option which toggles the avatars. These settings also doesn't seem to exist in other frontends (like Blorp).

I just checked whatever sounded/looked good.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah I've thinking about that as well for like since I found this.

Me wanting to try out custom ROMs (because I haven't done this ever) is probably what's fueling my decision to go with it, even though it might be unsafe.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Getting around Google’s attestation with an unlocked bootloader requires root - I believe the go-to is Magisk and the Play Integrity Fix module.

I'm planning on using KernelSU, because I asked on the Magisk subreddit and it's unironically what they recommended. I looked around here and it solidified my decision even more.

The recommended way for me to install it goes like install custom recovery > install custom ROM > somehow flash preferred rooting solution in recovery > install preferred rooting solution as an app. link

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The video guy is talking bollocks: plus he has about 50 crypto links to pay the wanker.

Really. Most of the videos I've seen of him are really solid. Plus, I do think the tips he gave are good (that's why I linked it in the first place) besides this:

He talks about “Removing bloatware Google packages” from Lineage, there are no bloatware google packages in lineage.

Yeah if you didn't install GAPPS you wouldn't get any, well... Google apps in the first place. Besides this part, I do think the others make sense because they are making connections with Google.

Captive Portal is simple to disable using adb. Its not scary.

Yeah.

Also I'm wondering about whether to disable this or not, like wouldn't it break functionality?

you can change your dns rather than rely on your carriers DNS. I use Mullvad DNS

Yeah I'm also using Mullvad DNS everywhere since I discovered it in like 2024.

not much info on itel-p55-5g on xda

Yep, I already looked everywhere. The Sourceforge repo and the Telegram group was all I found.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ahh, such distant dreams.

I have a way of using a polished official ROM, but it's GSI, and I already have MANY answers as to why NOT use a GSI if possible.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah I know I can't prevent apps from collecting data that's why I have all essentials from FOSS.

My main problem with an unlocked bootloader is I'll have to do a lot of things to get most of my apps working (mainly banking apps and games).

malware modifying the operating system at runtime

Is that from installing an app or from install a malicious ROM?

and an unauthorized person with physical access installing a malicious operating system while you’re not looking

That's like impossible. It takes time to install a ROM, and my phone is always with me so that's not happening.

The latter is rare unless you’re a high-value target or dating an abusive hacker.

Bold of you to assume I'm ever dating anyone.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah it kinda contradicts with my goal, but really, my ultimate goal was just to debloat my phone. I just learned degoogling from learning debloating so I thought I might as well do that. (the debloating plan I had since 2021 has brought me into this deep rabbit hole of privacy, Linux and many many more)

I'd honestly rather use anything than the stock ones at this point.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah when I have the money I'm planning on buying a Poco phone as well. I heard they're good for custom ROMs (as in supported by many devs), and it's the cheapest and good option for custom ROMs.

I think I need to hurry up on that plan though because it looks like I have to do many shenanigans to open HyperOS' bootloader now.

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I'm planning on flashing LineageOS on my phone to debloat and to degoogle, and additionally to increase overall privacy but apparently from what I've heard here that it's not private enough or even at all?

I know about it being less secure because of the opened bootloader and the higher chances of you rooting to achieve what you want with a degoogled phone, but beyond that (especially privacy-wise) I don't know anything.

I've seen a video on how to degoogle it further, but surely it isn't all I need to do.

I need some education.


Unfortunately my phone is so obscure that it isn't supported by literally anything, but fortunately there's an unofficial port of LineageOS I found on Telegram, and that's the one I'll be using. So if you're thinking of suggesting another custom ROM, you're out of luck. Also you can't make me buy a Pixel - that thing ain't supported in my country (5G and others) and it's hella expensive as well.

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