Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 13:53:49 +0200 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <7tfkklx99v.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1g2p8dv6u6h04.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <105af0o$koge$5@dont-email.me> <105brt7$c5tt$1@paganini.bofh.team> <1070cev.40g.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <1070lik$3iahv$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net G9Xjjy5ZclI1ZCA+JO+VMAdD+IYZ9IyKtVC57q9UHo/voHyLRS X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:K5WN0S34Kv0RICSY3JGzCEYqn5Y= sha256:C8AS/n/pFBNBlmJOjg6Y+xTOqS8UB5FwI9Fdn16o6P0= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70549 alt.os.linux:81846 alt.comp.os.windows-10:186570 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.