It started with 1 year 14 weeks behind, hope I am doing it the right way.
That sounds about right, testnet4 is not very old yet (so syncing is much faster).
It took no more than 2 hours for the sync and now the wallet is ready. I will use the mentioned thread to get some tbtc.
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