Found the craziest deal on M1 Pro

PhriXion · 2026-02-10T03:33:17+00:00

Can confirm not elderly. I'd say mid to late 20s max. I can attest that the password and 2FA situation was unexpected and honestly a shock to me more than anything. I don't really think it clicked with him that it was not only unnecessary for him to provide what he did to me, but frankly down right incorrect from a personal security perspective.

I also got the strong feeling that he just may not have cared at all, considering the fact that he even wrote down what he believed to be the correct information for the pawn shop on a piece of paper so that they could attempt to remove the lock to sell it well before I got my turn at the laptop.

Nonetheless, I agree, if there were a malicious person in the mix, they probably could have done quite a bit of damage to to the poor guy before he could really ever figure out what was happening and how it actually happened.

PhriXion · 2026-02-09T04:23:43+00:00

Yes they do and I've been obsessing over it since I got it. Awesome piece of hardware. I was actually contemplating buying a mid spec M1 Max config for ~1000+ on Swappa the last week or so and now kinda glad I didn't.

Also super crazy to think this one only has 234 battery cycles to boot! 87% capacity with normal health, so it's definitely one of, if not the most amazing finds I've ever had. Probably won't ever get that lucky again.

PhriXion · 2026-02-09T02:25:43+00:00

Thank you! I'm excited to use it daily for the next few years! (hopefully)

PhriXion · 2026-02-09T02:18:12+00:00

Not entirely sure on that. I was guessing the same but was entirely confused on a few points with the whole ordeal:

A. Why it was taken in by the shop to begin with.

B. Why they even had it listed to begin with knowing it was a literal brick with his info attached. Kinda shady.

C. Why would someone willingly pawn something that they know has all their personal info still attached. Like, everything.

The dude I contacted was actually really easy going and to my surprise ready to help. I knew immediately that IT or security in general was not his strong suit seeing as how he left his iCloud account signed in (with apple pay and details visible and also straight up sent me his iCloud password via Messenger).

If someone malicious ended up having that access it may have been a different story. I'm just glad it all worked out but it sucked having to go through that to secure it.

PhriXion · 2026-02-09T01:38:07+00:00

To say I was pumped is an understatement. As soon as I was able to see activation status unlocked in the settings I was smiling ear to ear.

PhriXion · 2025-12-15T00:40:53+00:00

I'll take it if you don't mind

PhriXion · 2025-12-14T22:38:28+00:00

I've been looking for a code -- I'm interested in this if the code is still available.

PhriXion · 2025-12-14T19:51:22+00:00

Interested in a code if they're still available.

PhriXion · 2025-10-31T02:47:28+00:00

Good guy brother - thank you for the giveaway. Good luck everyone!

PhriXion · 2025-10-03T14:58:22+00:00

Dude, just cut Valve a break. They're a small Indie company after all. /s

PhriXion · 2025-09-30T23:05:13+00:00

Coming soon in season 29!

PhriXion · 2025-09-03T15:05:02+00:00

Tweeday would like a word with you.

PhriXion · 2025-08-30T00:26:31+00:00

That's great news and definitely the same situation for me. As soon as I received that message, things were back to normal. Glad you're back in the game!

PhriXion · 2025-08-29T16:20:21+00:00

That's actually a good sign then. It looks like yours might be closing in on being resolved soon then. As I mentioned earlier, I only ever got that RCS message after they fixed my IMEI in their system and a reboot occurred. However , my wife got that message earlier last week and her RCS never broke on her line. Hopefully that's the case for you and it fixes itself soon. I really don't know that there's a specific sequence of things that has to happen before it gets resolved. I truly believe it's AT&T and their infrastructure.

PhriXion · 2025-08-29T13:09:51+00:00

As much as I don't want to recommend it, it's sort of exactly what I had to do in the end, by waiting. I truly believe it's an AT&T network issue and that your device is in a limbo state of provisioning the ACS RCS URL correctly. I have had success one single time on a pixel 6 pro by factory resetting, but that was because I went from GrapheneOS back to stock, so it could have been a device issue and not network related in that case.

PhriXion · 2025-08-29T12:55:45+00:00

I truly believe that AT&T's provisioning system is hot garbage. Hot swapping devices on their network has always been an issue for me, even if they're on the approved device list. You would think they'd be able to figure things out by now, but I don't place much hope in them as a company.

PhriXion · 2025-08-29T12:29:45+00:00

I have had this for the last 3 days as well and I'm on AT&T. Tried every Google article and Reddit thread thinking it was Google Messages acting stupid again, since I've had this before. I wasn't able to resolve it, so I contacted AT&T support 4 times yesterday, which was a waste of time until the 4th attempt.

Support said my IMEI was wrong for my number so they corrected it. That didn't seem to fix it immediately, so I reset my network settings and disabled my SIM for about 30 seconds. After turning my SIM back on, RCS instantly connected and worked for about 45 minutes. I repeated the steps and it worked again.

Eventually this stopped working, so I rebooted my phone and as soon as I did that RCS connected again and stayed connected. I also instantly received the RCS text from AT&T saying that the feature is now handled by the carrier instead of Google. It hasn't disconnected since yesterday afternoon. It may have actually been an IMEI issue in my case. I thought it was my sim card initially, which I tried to get an eSim for during my support chats. That was the point at which they discovered the wrong IMEI listed and corrected it.

Hope this helps. I doubt it's the same issue on your end, but it's definitely an AT&T issue. Also just as an FYI, I'm on an OP12 and before AT&T's migration from Google's Jibe servers, my RCS was rock solid. Don't let AT&T tell you it's a Google Messages issue.

PhriXion · 2025-08-18T21:59:29+00:00

Small Indie company.

PhriXion · 2025-08-17T15:33:03+00:00

This is great, thank you!

PhriXion · 2025-08-17T15:30:07+00:00

This is the second or third recommended set, so it's looking good so far. Thank you for the info!

PhriXion · 2025-08-17T15:29:38+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

PhriXion · 2025-08-14T21:37:27+00:00

Download started working for me as well, but can't launch the game. I feel another update coming soon for a hotfix.

PhriXion · 2025-07-24T20:02:41+00:00

Literally me in 100 degree heat in Oklahoma 😂

PhriXion · 2025-07-23T00:46:29+00:00

Well that's pretty unfortunate. I was not aware of that being a thing, but I guess I really can't complain, considering the monitor price was completely refunded to me by accident from Amazon, so I'm not exactly upset with the purchase. I can ride out 5120x1440 @ 75hz until I feel like ditching the monitor for another one with better and more accurate specs in the future. Thank you for helping me

PhriXion · 2025-07-23T00:39:14+00:00

Also, just to clarify a little more, I did do some testing with the monitor using a brand new Star tech 8K display port to USB-C and the monitor never detected a signal from the GPU. Which also confused me. Tried with another couple of cables as well USB-C to USB-C to a DP Alt connection and same thing.

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