XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)