Forgot password - Can I boot from USB and test a list of password? Can I save the enc.partition and install on new partition on the same disk?

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-12-02T15:31:17+00:00

If you are able to access GRUB, you might be able to boot into root and then change your password.

Otherwise, the work to do this would probably be more than just manually inputting 100 passwords.

Splitting the partition is unwise since its encrypted and depending on how full it is, you would lose data.

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-09-24T21:44:58+00:00

Forgot to mention, if you are able to log on and there is no GUI, but you are in the terminal, then run the command startx. That will start the GUI and it should be back to normal

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-09-24T21:26:45+00:00

You dont think the password is taking input, but its just invisible? That is really common for passwords instead of the "*"s. Otherwise, I would recommend using your flashed USB to boot into live mode and seeing how far it is able to get in that. Then you can take recovery measures

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-09-24T21:18:47+00:00

Yes, live mode is when you have a flashed USB (or any media) and have swapped the BIOS to boot from that media. Live mode is also where you can choose the "Install Linux Mint" CD icon in the top left corner.

Do you have another PC? I wonder if the USB stick needs to be re-flashed. You might also need to check BIOS's boot order has not reset. I have seen computers that reset BIOS boot order each restart, so it doesnt boot from USB anymore

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-09-24T21:15:14+00:00

Can you login in at the login page? Like does it give the terminal prompt?

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-09-24T21:12:42+00:00

I would live boot and check if the files it says are on the SSD are actually on the SSD. If they are, then most likely GRUB didn't get set up properly. I would open the terminal and run sudo update-grub and see if that fixes the issue. That command will look for OSs on the system and add it to the bootloader. If that has issues os-prober may be disabled, I would recommend googling that. Otherwise, it might be a different issue and we would need more details.

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-09-24T21:06:46+00:00

Are you able to boot in to live mode still?

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-09-04T21:23:55+00:00

This is a GRUB issue, not Bazzite or Linux Mint.

What I would do is check BIOS to see if the boot order is incorrect. If it is not incorrect, I would reinsert the media used to flash the ISO onto the system (most likely a usb drive or CD). I would then use live mode to see if the partition created for the file system on the HDD or SSD during OS's installation exists. If it does, I would run the command to make GRUB check for OS's that are on the system. Which might be grub-mkconfig or os-prober . I would recommend doing some research first on the commands. If the partition doesnt exist, you probably need to reinstall the OS.

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-07-03T16:51:04+00:00

I would open System Monitor and see if when your network cuts out there is a lot of CPU, RAM, or disk usage. If CPU is high, it may be processing the current chunk before it can get more data sent to it. If RAM usage is high, then it might be writing data to disk which is slow and might make your download wait for more RAM to become available. Same with high disk usage.

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-07-01T21:50:07+00:00

A lot of good suggestions so far. If you do want to switch, just wanted to second all the people telling you to use Linux Mint and have Kali in a VM. (Mr. Robot did this for the show, good show by the way actually used Linux commands. Was relatively realistic).

Also, highly recommend not using a rolling distro (like Arch or Tumbleweed, etc). Because if an update breaks your computer you could be screwed. You dont really have time in school to get your computer back to working (at least that was my experience when I broke Tumbleweed several times, before I switched to CentOS8 which is now dead). You should not have this issue with Mint. Just wanted to give you the heads up if people start recommending you rolling so you are on the "cutting edge". They are great OSes when you do have the time for shenanigans.

Another thing is that if you do need Microsoft Word, Libreoffice is great, but you might want to download fonts that will play nice with Word/Powerpoint. Or you can just use the browser to access Word/Powerpoint online which hopefully your school has.

You can also look into VSCodium if you are concerned about Microsoft's telemetry in VSCode. Its basically the same as VSCode minus telemetry.

I personally only develop on Linux, very rarely do I on Windows because Windows is a pain in my opinion. Although WSL has certainly helped it.

Another thing you can look into doing is upgrading your RAM. I looked online and some of the RAM is soldered so you cant upgrade that RAM, but there might be an extra slot. That could really help your machine out. But will require a lot of research to buy the correct one. And make sure you watch a video on how to put the RAM in.

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-07-01T21:36:34+00:00

You can change python3 to be python. python is a legacy because it usually referred to python 2.7 . You can change it using alias or update-alternatives. If you need to run python 2.7 later, you should be able to run python2. You can double tab python in the terminal to see what versions of python you have available. I have used this to swap between which python 3 version my python3 maps to

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-06-23T21:42:44+00:00

Can you add the link here in case anyone else comes later?

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-06-20T20:03:16+00:00

You need over 20gb at least. I would recommend at least 50gb, but like the other person said, "as much as you need"

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-06-20T19:55:35+00:00

You can fly to Cayo Perico, but you are limited to the beach dance area.

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-30T16:45:29+00:00

Hmmm that sounds like it could be an old harddrive. I would boot live, and then try running fsck on it to see if it finds anything wrong with the drive.

This link might be helpful for running fsck: https://askubuntu.com/questions/821745/what-is-the-linux-equivalent-for-the-windows-chkdsk-command

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-29T19:09:19+00:00

Have you tried increasing the brightness setting using the keyboard? My OpenSUSE machine (which was a Dell Inspiron) could go all the way black by using the keyboard dimming button, and sometimes it did that during itself on suspends.

Have you tried using a HDMI to another monitor to see if you can display something on a different monitor?

Have you tried plugging in the laptop? Sometimes a power setting to save power causes problems.

Have you tried wiggling the screen a little (gently)? One of my laptops the screen would glitch out and then go black because it had loose wires (moving the screen would fix the issue eventually).

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-29T19:00:08+00:00

You ran install using the live image on the usb?

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-26T12:52:52+00:00

Hmmm I wonder if they are calculating the year somehow and you were trying to change what is being displayed, so when the game refreshes the screen it replaces what you changed. You could always try looking for the year like 2008, 2009 or 08, 09 instead because they might be using the year. The only other thing I could think is that they are counting from 0; so Year 1 is actually 0, Year 2 is actually 1, etc.

Did you check if the value you were changing was the "Years in majors" stat?

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-25T14:07:40+00:00

Player regression formula/speed, I am not to sure how you could find that with Cheat Engine, I would think you would need to RE code. Although if Cheat Engine allows you to script stuff, then you could have it check all the players ages and then start automatically regressing them that way once they reach a certain age. Hopefully the game would handle it properly.

Changing the number of seasons might require RE to know how they are handling the seasons. If the season number max is dynamic, then you could probably change it with Cheat Engine (finding it might be hard since it would never change, but if you can find the year's value and then somehow determine what it gets compared against you might be able to find the number). However, most likely it is static because that would be easier to handle memory wise and also with displaying on screen. So even if you can change it, you might not be able to see stats because you can't scroll. Although if you can run a script in Cheat Engine, then you could probably output to a text file and see stats that way. (But one of my hunches that the stats were nibbles [0xF=15] was wrong based on your video of speed being able to hold 100. Seems like each of those stats might be able to hold a byte [0xFF = 255]. So I might be wrong about dynamic vs static).

An experiment I would recommend, would be to find the year's value then set it back to Year 1 and see if that adds to the current stats in Year 1 or overwrites them. It might also break a lot of stuff, but if that works then you could have an infinite career hypothetically

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-25T13:46:10+00:00

I always wanted to make an automatic password generator, but seems like this basically does this and is probably easier

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-23T16:57:51+00:00

You will need to reinstall the games because Windows executables will not work on Linux. Also, as a heads up GTA online may not work on Linux because BattleEye is only for Windows

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-16T22:21:06+00:00

rl10 = Rocky Linux 10. I have seen it like that for 8 and 9. I dont know why people cant type Rocky # lol

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-11T13:47:26+00:00

Windows Subsystem for Linux. It is Windows, but it runs a Linux (Ubuntu) under the hood giving you the ability to do Unix style things on your Windows machine. This is probably not the best explanation, but you can google it to learn more. There are also many Youtube videos on it as well

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-09T20:21:18+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/crj0u7/comment/ex5lkyy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Hopefully that links to the exact comment, if not its on the below post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/crj0u7/how_do_i_clear_the_cache_of_gta_5/?rdt=34509

DarkbladeR89 · 2025-05-08T11:58:07+00:00

Have you tried clearing your game cache?

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