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I'm trying to sign in to Linkedin on a second laptop, in a browser. Here is my log of how that goes:

1. In an email Linkedin says "You can finish signing in to your LinkedIn account by following the instructions that we sent to your LinkedIn App." There is nothing to click on in the email. 

2. I open the Linkedin on my phone and there are no notificatons, just another view of the same email.

3. I try logging in on a second browser with the second laptop, using the password hat Dashlane, my password manager, recalls. Linkedin rejected that password..

4. Dashlane also tells me the password, which it generated for me long ago, is "just short of great" and should be reset.

5. Hoping a password reset might fix the problem, I click on the password reset link in the email from Linkedin that tells me I'm trying to sign in on a new device, and it tells me a code has been sent to my email address.

6. The code arrives about five minutes later. It says, "Check your LinkedIn app. We sent a notification to your signed in devices. Open your LinkedIn app and tap Yes to confirm your password reset attempt."

7. I'm still waiting for that on my phone's Linkedin app.

8. I give up.

9. Linkedin says "Password reset expired. You can try resetting password again." Which I don't.