Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout
Date	2025-08-07 13:53 +0200
Message-ID	<dngemlx39f.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
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On 2025-08-07 03:53, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:39:16 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> 
>> In practice, if Google withdraw their email provision, it would cause
>> major world unrest. What they could always do, again to widespread
>> displeasure but probably would be acceptable, is start charging for it -
>> initially a small amount, maybe.
> 
> I think it is too woven into their entire infrastructure. I've had a gmail
> account from the days when it was by invitation. I don't use it directly;
> anything arriving in gmail is automatically pulled by my regular mail
> account.  However that has become my Google identity in for phones,
> Fitbit, and so forth.
> 
> I recently received email that an account we'd created when we were
> testing Android tables had been inactive and was going to be deleted. i
> don't have a clue what the password was so sayanora. 

If you have an associated phone number with it, you could recover it.

> You could at least
> get around not having a MS account to set up Windows but I don't know if
> you could fire up a new tablet without a Google account.

It is possible, but not easy. I don't know how — and I don't really care :-p

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-06 14:29 +0200
  Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-08-06 18:04 +0000
    Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-06 20:33 +0200
      Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-06 23:39 +0100
        Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-08-07 00:36 +0000
        Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-07 01:53 +0000
          Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-07 13:53 +0200
        Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> - 2025-08-07 20:01 +1000
          Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-07 13:05 +0100

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