In a galaxy far away...
Naboo was under an attack.
And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn
Could talk the federation in
To maybe... cutting them a... little slack.
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I’ve gotten that a few times from people, I got mine when it was still in beta. Don’t use it anymore because google, switched to Proton.
And here I am, with a [email protected] address, running my own mail server.
- People sometimes act like this is pure magic
- Some providers only allow popular mail services on signup (fuck those), so I had to set up a GMail address that just redirects to my actual one
- My last name is really hard to spell, so it probably wasn't the best idea, since I always struggle communicating that address verbally
The pain of running this still beats having to deal with a free provider out there that either spams my inbox with their own BS or just skims through the data to serve me ads.
Sadly I didn’t think to try to grab my last name until recently, and it has been owned for quite a while.
I’m using my custom domain email with a hosting service (mailbox.org). Hosting on my own was a pain in the ass and you also have to deal with spam filters not trusting you.
I have a somewhat common word as my last name.
My first two initials are 'al', which means "to the" in Italian.
My email is [email protected]
I get Italian train ticket reservation info about twice a year.
I have just my last name, and get signed up for all kinds of bullshit by people with my last name because they'll enter firstname[email protected] when signing up for stupid shit.
There was a mixup with a German teacher in France once and all of her students sent their homework to my email instead of hers. That was fun!
Did they get good marks?
Found Alex Fresco!
Kid taking my gmail address: how did they allow you to have a troll name for email address?
I was there when gmail was invented.
Same here, I signed up immediately. Also had a google phone # for a while, but never used it and I don't think it even works anymore. I think they only created those to gather test data for voice recognition.
They still exist. You can grab a new one for free whenever. They only expire if you don't use them for ~6 months, and then you just ask for a new one.
They are great for a small business Lines?
I got my Gmail account because someone gave me one of their early adopter invites LOL.
Yeah, I never got an early adopter invite, and by the time it launched to the public, someone already had my name. Apparently there’s some middle aged programmer who shares my name, and he got an invite.
Same way back in the land of 2006.
It is still under my Livejournal name hahahaha.
Tbf im the only person on the planet with my name. I think that’s pretty neat.
For context, I have a made up last name so I know entire on earth with my family name
In my 40+ years alive, I've never met anyone with my first name, although I know they exist; a quick Google search shows me at least a handful of people who have it.
My last name is an Americanized spelling of a Danish pronunciation of a Norwegian farm name. There are very few people who have my exact last name, and every one I've ever spoken to has been a descendant of my ancestral family who immigrated to America a century and a half ago.
Combine the two, and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person on the planet with my specific name. I've never had a problem making accounts with my first.last name anywhere.
Made me curious now, shame you'd have to dox yourself to tell me 😔
I mean, this is my public username. It takes a very quick Google search to dox me. Most of my name is in my username already.
I can't think of what Norwegian name it's supposed to be a Danish pronunciation of, tbh. Severin?
My family is originally from Sauda in Norway. Norwegian tradition used to be that your family name was the name of your home. If you moved to a new farm, you adopted the name of that farm as your new family name. They don't do this anymore, as it got really hard to track genealogical records with families changing names all the time.
When my ancestors immigrated to America, Norway was under Danish rule, as Denmark had conquered Norway at the time and was forcing Danish pronunciation on the Norwegian language. So my family name's pronunciation of "saw-duh" became "sov-dae."
When my ancestors got to America, no one could pronounce my family name correctly, so they changed the spelling to be more phonetic in the English language. And that's how I got my current family name!
Right, yes that was common, being named after the farm. Interesting family story 🙂
Though, being Danish, I have a national duty to say that Denmark didn't conquer Norway, it was inherited by a king around 1400 and then developed into a full union in 15-something when the Swedes left the Kalmar Union. It was a dual monarchy, effectively one country, ruled from Copenhagen and standard Danish was no more forced on the Norwegians than it was forced on other Danes speaking a dialect of Danish.
The union was dissolved in 1814 when Napoleon (who was allied to Denmark), lost his wars and Norway was given to Sweden. After 100 years under Swedish rule, Norway was finally independent.
It's been something of a national need in Norway to emphasize all the bad things under the dual monarchy, but in truth Norwegians and Danes were completely equal. Look up any major historical or cultural figure from the era and there's a good chance he came from what is now Norway, most of the navy was Norwegian and so on. I understand the need to find someone to other so that the national identity grows stronger, but it's a pity it's become a narrative of Danish exploitation when that's completely false.
I say equal, that goes for the political class and nobility, the peasants in both countries were of course almost completely powerless 😉
That's very interesting. I learned the history of my name through living descendants of my ancestors in Norway. (Two brothers immigrated to America, while a third brother stayed behind in Norway) They were the ones who told me Norway was conquered and ruled by Denmark for a while.
Perhaps it was a mistranslation between us; I had wondered how Norway was able to preserve their country's heritage and language while being ruled by their neighbor.
imagine my luck at joining lemmy.world before they created an affiliates program.
"invented" my ass.
It's just a data harvester with 0 innovation
When it came out it was the only email service that offered 1GB of storage for free.
it's not free, YOU are a product
Came out on April first. All the other email providers had a good chuckle at the obvious joke. The panic when they finally realized it wasn't a joke was some good schadenfreude.
For reference the standard limit at the time was 10MB with 100MB available for an extra fee.
i regret having gmail
I changed my name.. I added numbers to my new email address :(
I was there when it was invite only, child. They used to have an IM chat too.
Google still has a chat embedded in Gmail, but because Google is grotesquely incompetent they've never succeeded in making a good messaging service. I think they've had like 15, but they are too fucked up to just make one work.
One of the things I bring up if someone says "we should run the government like a business"
The hangouts app was actually sick. You could connect to Google voice and your actual phone number allowing you to:
- place phone calls from voice on your computer or phone
- place phone calls from your actual number on your phone
- send text messages from voice on your computer or phone
- send text messages from your actual number on your phone (and possibly computer)
- send ims from your computer or phone
It was available within gmail or on its own dedicated site, and it automatically collated conversations regardless of send medium.
It made communication free and easy regardless of what device I was using--then they rebranded it and made it IM only--then they killed it.
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