LCD1602 Seemingly not working well

Hello, sorry if this question is dumb or badly done, but i've been trying to get a LCD1602, that has been sitting somewhere for like 5yrs doing nothing, to work but the closest to success was getting a [ on the 1st character of the 2nd line despite normally having aa on the 1st line and Z instead of [.
Here are pictures of the stuff


Not sure what you are asking or what you have. Your pictures are difficult at best to follow.
Please read the advice in the topic "How to get the best from this forum". How to get the best out of this forum Also posting an annotated schematic along with your code will help us help you. Links to the hardware items technical information is also needed as we do not all have the same parts.

ah sorry
i tihink ill just do other stuff instead of trying to use the lcd
sorry again

Do not use pins 0 or 1. Maybe LiquidCrystal lcd(11,10, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9);

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If you change your mind we are still here.

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