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Unbrick or Recover Xiaomi Redmi 10A and other MTK devices

Case: Your Redmi 10A (probably other MTK devices too) is not turning on and doesn't react to any button pressed nor cable connection. Requisites:   Dead phone USB Cable  You tried tons of tutorials to unbrick the phone and didn't work This image Willingness to even use Linux to fix it (it's not hard) Steps: Create a bootable USB using the image downloaded. Make sure your computer allows booting from USB. Boot the computer from the bootable USB. When booting, a list of options will be shown. Pick the first one: Boot Live system. Once the system is loaded, go to the right-upper corner to connect to Wi-Fi. Once you have internet, use the Firefox browser (click on the icon in the left-upper corner) and download the Linux version of this tool (SP Flash) and save it in the desktop. Unzip the tool downloaded. Download the fastboot version of the stock ROM . Unzip the ROM, to have the folder and files. Click on 'MTK' icon that is in the desktop. In the command line opene
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Create Simple Countdown Timer for Debian with Xfce

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Case: You use Debian with Xfce Desktop Environment, you need a simple countdown timer and no package convinces you. Requisites: Packages libnotify and pulseaudio are installed. Steps: Open a text editor and copy this code: #!/bin/bash hour=$1 min=$2 sec=$3 while [ $hour -ge 0 ]; do          while [ $min -ge 0 ]; do                  while [ $sec -ge 0 ]; do                          echo -ne "$hour:$min:$sec\r"                          let "sec=sec-1"                          sleep 1                  done                  sec=59                  let "min=min-1"          done          min=59          let "hour=hour-1" done notify-send --urgency CRITICAL "Countdown is over!" paplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/alarm-clock-elapsed.oga Customize the message by editing "Countdown is over!" (don't remove the " ) and the sound by changing the audio file path ( /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/alarm-clock-
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