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Try this
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/account/inactive
If that fails, Google “Google inactive account manager”.
Took me ages to find this, I couldn’t even find my emails about it, quite hard seaching your inbox for a Google related email.
Ended up searching Google for “Gmail dead man switch”. It put a dent in my google-foo powers. I won eventually.
It may just be ms pushing sky drive, but as Jason said banner adds just blend in. Who ever notices the Gmail ones?
Im amazed anyone buys Gmail slots,as they are completely lost on me.
Lol, to be fair to talk talk employees and stammers alike, the I doubt many TT call centre employees know or Linux either so you would of got the same out come either way.
Not dissing TT, I’ve had no bad experiences with then over 6 or 7 years. It’s just they way of life, these first line techs, couldn’t build a Lego car, never mind fix a pc issue.
I had a very brief job at O2, Preston brook, call centre, not a bag jar tbh, and withing I The second week of being on the floor they had noticed I actually was intrested in tech, so was pulled off the floor, and pit in a room with 100s of phones and from then on my job was to press buttons and create issues, and then document my way out of the issue.
Basically create crib sheets. It was so boring. I wad terrified of the phones, but it wad the boarded that killed that job. Also i was in flux between Marines and Uni, I jacked it in after about 6 weeks.
Chucked a load of cheap working Epson ink sets out. I did offer them on mm. They wad the 4 colour set individuals, I had a about 30 in all. But the ink head clogged on the Epson, and I cba with ink no more so went lazar, been over a year on lazar, (maybe more) and it just works with zero maintenance. I may only be on mono, but lazer us just so much better. Ink is cheaper too, more expensive up front, but £20 gets about 5000 or more prints.
And at out rate that is a long way off, which was half the issue with ink. We didn’t use it enough for it to work when we needed it.
That deal @Tippon linked to is a good’n. It did originate form me through.
They don’t today Richard. However we are at the beginning of a brand new tech cycle, who knows what the future holds. With the new iot cycle we are entering into, over the next decade, evening will be connected and controllable.
Exciting times. You shouldn’t need a rebate or incentive when it’s for the greater good. Plush the incentive is you won’t use as much power, so you’ll save money. And youll have cool tech you can monitor on the fly, for what reason, I don’t know, only the future knows.
For now. :good:
I have no issue of collecting it in for safety against threats. The issue is the data they doesnt doesn’t. When us politicians and high ranking officers have been pushed, they have amitted on record, that the data have stopped maybe one, bit that was questionable, attack.
Today was they do is collected everything, knowing (or hoping) one day there will be a use for it.
Also the data is used after the fact to try and put events surrounding an attack (or even miner event*), at this point it’s to late.
*years ago I had a run in with the police, as my plates was stolen, and a rear plate off a stolen car was pun on mine. On the fly when I was pulled, the officer corroborated my where abouts the previous few days, over the radio at the side of the road just by data collected. The chap let me go home. And the bloody CID ransacked my home the next morning, scaring my youngest half to death. By the Monday morning the figured out they got the “wrong man”, but it was collected data used after the fact, and not to prevent a crime.
It actually helped me in the example is show, but still, it didn’t sit right with me.
The remote control aspect is an Intresting one. I seen a BBC energy doc some years ago now, and the grid had deals with certain companies letting the grid dial back the companies power, (turn down stuff), to ride out shuddered peaks on the grid.
I think this is actually great, and a good use of smart appliances. If they could do this, I’d be happy with a smart meter.
I see this as a bonus not a con. As the government is turning off more and more energy sites, the grid is getting smaller and smaller,having to lean on the continent for extra boost. But aparently it’s takes time to do (seconds) and in the at time alliance manipulation on a regional scale would be a good thing.e enough long term manipulation may be good.
It will be soon enough though. The days of an OS costing money are over.
Granted the only people that buy os’s are geeks like us, and wee know the legal free way, so by not charging for it privately they are not going to loose much revenue. In lost sales.
Hp et al, will still be paying a few shackles, but I bet it’s no where near what they was getting post 8.
When I seen win 8Rt ,i envisaged a day of a free home licence with appstore, but limited, and and paid for ‘pro’ os with full desktop access. Their handling of 8 slowed then down, but with the latest updates and Android style warnings of non safe software from non win store applications, I think in the next year or so we will see an official free forever home update cycle, and maybe a subscription model if you want the pro features.
Just keep an eye out for features dropping off the editions we are running now,and ms spinning them off in to the pro pack.
That way they can give HP and the rest free os, and it will be upto the punter to choose home or pro, (probably windows 365 support) and at a an annual/monthly cost.
I actually think it a not half bad idea, as it will force devs to put software in the ms store, and it will keep normal people safe form the Internet and dodgy software. Which is good for all computer users.
Adverts in the free version too. Yippee. Who do I make a cheque out to. ?
Game in earphone. Problem sorted.
Wen the os is free, this is what you get.
I don’t have a smart meter, I’m not really against them tbh, however i have a good set up with Npower, where I just input my readings into my phone by a certain date. I update the readings about twice a month, when I think on.
There app is great, but I’d imagine all the bigger companies offers something similar by now. So I don’t see the need for a smart meter, and untill I can be pursued by a big discount for having one I’ll hand tight for now, untill someone can convince me I’m better off.
But as I said I’m not adverse to having one, I don’t see the drawback IF they work, and tbh there isn’t fancy reason why they shouldn’t. Maybe it’s because they are new they are having difficulties.
Ive seem some forums where people say they don’t want the wirless signals 24/7 as they will give their kids cancer etc, but that is the most stupid thing Ive read, but in many forums it’s well a believed theory. These people must think fairies and pixie dust delivers their Internet lol.
The good men have nothing to worry about bob ?
Is portal a tegra exclusive? Just shad a look via the pixel and it want to be seen.
I recall in the early days tegra had its own “for tegra” games that you had to get via the Nvidia store, tho the store has long gone I think.
It made its debut on the htc one X, you gouged get some I’ve the same games in and out the tegra store, but the tegra games was so much more graphically, and way bigger in size. I recall one game was over 5GB the non tegra about 2GB, in thoughs days 2GB wad gigantic. So 5GB was eye watering, but so was the textures.
Well I see there still is a tegra store, portal is a tegra game, and the original large game was the Bards tale, that seems to now need a controller to play. Times change.
Sky was always good once you get through to Ireland. Otherwise forget it.
I don’t trust ours one bit. It’s not the illegal stuff you have to worry about, given your not doing anything illegal. It’s the data as a whole and what they (whomever) in the future could do with it that worries me.
I don’t care about any nations thst arnt allied with the uk, as they can’t use the data against me personally. But your own government can. And our is getting on of the worst at collecting and trying to sensor data behind N Korea and China. A nice group to be in. Not.
I have my worries about enemy states, mainly cos I think one day Nato will truly piss them off, and we will all (peronally) suffer their backlash.
But from the perspective of data collection, being a citizen on the uk, it’s the uk I fear. If I lived anywhere else, it would be that gov I fear.
Though I i said above, they have the data on all of us anyway, both gov and many many companies. Even if you haven’t have them it your friends already have.
The US gov has all your info, all of it. And any government that is feeding off the web ‘prism’ style also has it. Alot of today’s traffic is secure (https) bit it wasnt for the last ten years.
The Samsung story broke yesterday, and it’s hardly surprising given 2 years ago we was discussing that many smart tvs was probing your network and reporting thier findings home.
I’d be amazed If there wasnt any intelligence branch that hasn’t used this to their advantage and compromised the in place system.
As Jason says its a game you can’t win. Even not playing doesn’t work as enough people that you know, or better still know you, do play. So you may of well take the advantages, as your already suffering the disadvantages, even if you don’t yet know it.
I don’t mine China, Russia etc having me, it’s the uk and its allies I fear more.
Considering these things are not built with security in mind, I’d be amazed if there was a government in the world that isn’t “hacking” iot stuff.
Hacking in mist cases is a stitch too, usually it’s just a case of inputting factory admin/passwords.
There is a few sites that to highlight the issue with baby monitors, they “hack” the. I and stream the. And 24/7, there hope is the outrage will stop the bad practice across the board, or at the very least users will change the default pw.
It may just show if you have contacts already on there, something I’ve not had for 10 years, so I’ve not seen it.
Though I thought the nano, and maybe micro sims didn’t have the ability to save stuff to. Have you seen how much metal you can cut off a mini sim, when trimming down to fit in a micro or nano slot. I thought all that metal was the access memory you cut off, as the sim will still function .
It actually really hard I kill a sim. In the past I’ve delamination a sim, then layered it back together and it’s worked.
Ah that’s fighting talk. Lol.
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