The SWIPE plan of Slovak Telekom limited by age up to 28. Despite them having a web portal and shop, SWIPE can only be purchased and managed via a separate app for SWIPE.

Going through registration, it just loads a fucking website to do the registration.

But if that's not enough, it's Chrome-only it seems.

The support for SWIPE seems limited to an LLM chatbot that can do anything but being helpful

Furthermore, at school I got an ad for 3 months 50% off on this plan with ISIC, yet such an offer seems nowhere to be found on the internet, and I've been unable to find the code as directed.

This feels like a usual no-name brand scam, yet it's just part of Deutche Telekom group.

Above is basically same thing in Slovak

"How can I talk with a human?"

"Hello! You can talk with a human in person, through phone, or various chatting applications. If you want to contact someone through SMS or call, with our service SWIPE you'll manage it perfectly. If you have any specific question about SWIPE, feel free to ask!"

So I have an L390 Yoga with USB-C charging. Original adapter works at full speed. I got a 45W power bank, works at full speed.

But that was just a coincidence.

I already tried 5 other adapters and all can only charge it at 10W with 5V. 3 were 22.5W, so maybe, but now I got a 45W GaN adapter, with the same 20V 2.25A as the power bank, yet again just 10W. It even has PPS.
I also tried a 66W adapter I have, with 20V 3.25A mode, 10W again.

The only 3rd party thing that works is Choetech B653 power bank.

I have also tried 2 different cables, one of which is rated at 120W, but both only work with the power bank.

So what am I missing? Or is it just some Lenovo BS to make you use official adapter?

Like this it's faster to charge the power bank, and then the laptop from it.

Edit: Switches to 20V when I connect something to USB-A on the adapter, but keeps turning off and on repeatedly (the adapter).

All I could find is how to make a list, and reinstall flatpaks from that list, as well as backup app data, however all of that assumes I want to do updates.

Meanwhile what I want is akin to extracting APK of a stable version of some app, backing it up and using it for years to come. For example that's how I joined these 2 screenshots, using JointPics from 2014 which isn't even on Play Store anymore, and targets API so low that it has to be installed via ADB. (Yeah, I am too dumb for GIMP)

As for the regression, you can see. On left is older Flatpak, on right is version from Arch repo. The Flatpak I originally installed as a hotfix for update that broke it completely at one point on Arch.
You can see the older version nicely fits the screen, splitting up text into columns.
Meanwhile the new version just does smaller page in middle of screen that doesn't even work properly with Breeze Dark theme, causing different background for text sections.

The only improvement is ability to flip pages rather than use arrows, but that's minimum.
Well, and maybe the progress keeping got fixed, but I didn't test that much.

Don't pay attention to the taskbar. I wish it could flip to vertical with different screen orientation. Yeah, the icons' clickability is a dice roll of what you tap.

$ pacman -Si apt
Repository      : extra
Name            : apt
Version         : 3.1.4-1
Description     : Command-line package manager used on Debian-based systems
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt
Licenses        : BSD-3-Clause  GPL-2.0-only  GPL-2.0-or-later  MIT
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : systemd-libs  libseccomp  perl  xxhash  dpkg  gnutls  bzip2  sequoia-sqv  xz  gcc-libs  lz4  bash  zlib  zstd  db  libgcrypt  glibc
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 2.63 MiB
Installed Size  : 8.24 MiB
Packager        : Alexander Epaneshnikov <alex19ep@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Mon 11 Aug 2025 08:52:43 PM CEST
Validated By    : SHA-256 Sum  Signature

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/apt/

Not particularly pleased about the decision when OpenVPN is the most supported protocol.

Meanwhile their competitor IVPN even does IPsec.

Note: I haven't yet. The following text is not an answer, and might not be worth reading. (Chance: approx. 95%)

Previously posted in mildly interesting a year ago, doesn't qualify anymore: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18714104

Probably disintegrating, I don't know. But now I'll finally have to buy new ones. Currently there's 6 oozing points in total. 3 are minor, one is now inactive (the 2024 pimple), one I taped over, but it's starting to overflow, and one near the jack is major.

I now cannot plug them in without getting sticky residue everywhere. Also the rubber on the outside is starting to crumble a bit.
I am a cheapskate, but this may be their end.

Preface

I'll be going to college that is a bit further away (i.e.: daily commute not possible) and will have to live in a dorm (can't afford anything better).
Unfortunately, no single-bed rooms seem available and I have a bit of an issue with being with people (any).
Currently I live with parents, which for me is also not easy to deal with. I usually spend most of the days on toilet (separate room from bathroom in our case) sitting on ground, with laptop on the closed toilet itself, as a room replacement.

Personal preferences (in order of importance)

1. Room privacy/separation
2. Bathroom privacy
3. Distance from faculty
4. Food access

Buildings

Let's give them some names...

1. CRAP (Can't Receive Any Privacy)
   • 2-bed rooms
   • Shared bathroom
   • 4.5km away from faculty
2. PRISON (Packed Room Is Single Only Negative)
   • 2 and 3-bed rooms, 2 rooms per cell
   • One bathroom per cell
   • Cafeteria
   • Buffet
   • 1km away from faculty

Available information

• Total number of beds
• Remaining number of beds (since some are occupied by prior students)
• Number of current pending reservations (i.e. how many want the room)
• Price (irrelevant)
• Nationality of interested/housed students

Current situation

Naturally, most students prefer to live in PRISON rather than CRAP, hence all those rooms already have either current students or interested ones.
As of now, after 2 days (5 days remaining for current round), the CRAP still has 11 rooms with nobody in them and no reservations.

Possible strategies and their flaws

Risky, potentially high gain

Set one of the empty CRAP rooms as high priority. If it survives the next, final round without additional reservations, I could have a separate room.
Flaws: If it does not, I'll end up with a random roommate nevertheless, but in a shitty far away building with shared bathrooms and no cafeteria and buffet. In the end, only piling up drawbacks. Additionally, there seems to be currently empty rooms with multiple reservations in CRAP. Either these are friends, and it's nothing to be worried about, or, there's people who prefer a roommate for whatever fucking reason.

Expected misery

Choose any 2-bed room in a PRISON cell, for sure getting a room in better, nearby situated building, with one-person-at-a-time bathrooms, and the cafeteria and buffet.
Flaws: There will be a roommate, and my only choice can be between their nationalities, but I will not be alone.

So should I take one of the PRISON cells, or end up stuck in CRAP?

(Yes I had fun with the acronyms)

(This didn't require me to workaround anything, it's just their bad — for them — setup.)

So, for around the past 8 months I've been using a cheap IoT SIM card from T-Mobile with some tiny high-speed data allowance and 64kbps unlimited.
The 64 kbps unlimited turned out to just stay high-speed unlimited, in 2 countries at least. Ironically, I had trouble even just activating (switching to — only sold as physical) the eSIM in the home country, so I couldn't test it there.
I've been using it mostly as a backup alongside another regularly paid plan at first, since it can connect via 3 MNOs in my country, but I also used it a bit more to save some money later after my main carrier increased the price by 30%. I've been trying to keep it up to around 20GB/month per SIM, since that is the theoretical limit with 24/7 64kbps, but this month I overshot it with 35GB.
Currently I switched to ad-supported low-speed eSIM instead since that's good enough for now.

I also have a second SIM in modem connected to my mini PC I wanted to play around with remotely, but I didn't really get to much.

wwan0  /  monthly

        month        rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
       2025-03    766,87 MiB |    9,46 GiB |   10,21 GiB |   32,74 kbit/s
       2025-04    753,07 MiB |    8,95 GiB |    9,68 GiB |   32,08 kbit/s
       2025-05      9,87 MiB |    1,73 MiB |   11,60 MiB |       36 bit/s
       2025-06     42,38 MiB |   15,13 MiB |   57,52 MiB |      186 bit/s
       2025-07      1,21 GiB |   24,45 MiB |    1,23 GiB |    4,06 kbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------

€1.60/month. Cheap enough even if I don't use it.

Other than that, I also try to always stay connected to MNOs under Deutsche Telekom umbrella, since I expect they're gonna have the lowest roaming fees there. It even appears to be the default, but sometimes I need to help it if the signal is worse.
The current EU cap is €1.30/GB for what the roaming partner can charge.
And actually, they can charge me up to this value when roaming permanently (+VAT), but they haven't yet done so (it's prepaid, so there won't be extra bills later).

But also, this is a service I couldn't otherwise get locally. As a young person (up to 28), I can get 300GB/month from Telekom for just €20.50, but there's no domestic roaming for better coverage like I am getting here.
The only carrier which used to offer it was O2, but they discontinued it because it apparently worsened their reputation. Apparently, the competition was telling their customers that they have domestic roaming due to "having to rely on other's networks", from what I've heard.

I know of other similar past glitches. Embeddedworks IoT SIM using the T-Mobile network used to have actual unlimited speed instead of 64kbps, but this has since been fixed.
15GB T-Mobile roaming pass could somehow be overshot, I've seen a screenshot saying "24GB out of 15GB" used.
Firsty free eSIM could do unlimited speed to google services like maps and YouTube (tested with 4k60 video), but since that's a smaller company offering free service, I've reported it to them, and it has been fixed since switch from KPN to Proximus.

Others in certain discussions also mentioned similar glitches with a few other unknown providers, but since too many people using those would get it fixed quickly, the specifics are usually not mentioned.

This morning I picked up my old smartphone with a notification saying not to remove SD card without ejecting.

Turns out it just died overnight.

I tried putting it into some other devices, and they also don't see anything. It did incorrectly show up as "127MB disk" on 2 different SD card readers when I sprayed it with liquid butane from air duster can, but that's just something like -1°C as far as I can find, so pretty lame.

Anyway, I can't find the backup anywhere, aside from a partial one from 2020. It's not worth spending money on, but perhaps some effort it would.

I seem to have all but 1 apks backed up on a DVD, a few photos from 2020, root/unroot zips and CWM recovery, and modified cacerts.bks with newer root certificates, so what's missing is Monte Gallery apk, and few unknown photos, and perhaps some app data.

Ideas?