I need a PIN to set up a new laptop

[Tyler Blizzard]

I have had a Microsoft account for a long time, but strictly from apple devices. My new laptop is a Lenovo, and uses windows, so it wants to use windows hello, even though I've signed in with the password. This requires a PIN, which I do not have, but attempting to set one up through my other devices fails, since it consistently wants to create a passkey; there is no option create or change a pin given.

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