• @EtherWhack@lemmy.world
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    609 months ago

    After 20-25 years, it’s more or less used for a spam pit and less important things now. No sense walking away from it when there’s no finances or other dangerous things attached

  • @stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    459 months ago

    10 yo me on his way to include his day, month and year of birth in his reddit username that cannot be changed and to get enough karma on that account to not want to delete it.

  • @BigT54@lemmy.world
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    249 months ago

    I find it incredibly annoying that Google won’t let you merge or transfer purchases to a new account.

    • @Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
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      169 months ago

      YES BITCH! I’m stuck using this ancient account I’d really rather not in order to access my purchases. Luckily most of the things I’ve bought are no longer available. However I did just buy premium for Boost for Lemmy… Fuck it. I’m buying it again.

      Thank you for the reminder for me to switch over. I actually needed that.

      • Gloomy
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        129 months ago

        I like how this was your reminder. I mean, you just made a thread about this very topic…

            • @Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
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              It’s a screengrab from Star Trek: Lower Decks although it can be found in any of the newer episodes of the new Trek shows. They’re using it as an opening across all shows. A ship (changes depending on the show) flies around in space. It then zooms out and you realize the path the ship was taking makes the Starfleet Delta. Then the Star Trek text drops over the top. Pretty neato intro actually.

              Here’s the link to the Strange New Worlds one. Lower Decks shows the ship from that show, the Cerritos. Discovery shows the USS Discovery and the newest season of Picard shows the USS Titan-A. There’s even a new retro version for the ‘very Short Treks’ theyve been putting up on youtube.

              Here’s the full pic if you want it.

                • @Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
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                  Animation works on my end. They do match real close. I am super impressed with the detail they did for all the intros. There’s even little easter eggs imbedded in some of them. Picard Season 3 is mostly the same but occasionally something small changes and you see another ship in the background or special effects added to the main logo. Lower Decks has added a nebula that looks like a giant Koala into their intro.

    • @Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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      69 months ago

      While it’s not quite the same, Google does allow you to stay signed into multiple accounts. Just click your profile photo in the upper-right and click “Add another account”. After signing into the other account, you can seamlessly switch between them. The same steps can also be used for any Google Android app.

      • Rootiest
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        PW:

        u#'o*zaQMyPC"fnw?Cu9OSrxYeEDCe6yXgzQYL4NxP?k%sx+'dBKfdru0CUmD&

        If the server won’t take a 64-char pw with letters, numbers, and symbols then is it even worth using?

        • swab148
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          89 months ago

          I’m gonna use your password, but change one character so it’s mine.

          • Rootiest
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            Go for it!

            I generated it in KeePass for this comment and actually interestingly it looks like Lemmy butchered/sanitized/modified it as well

          • Rootiest
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            29 months ago

            Which character are you going to change?

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              The instrumental version is fantastic there, though.

              Edit: I just listened to it again. Nah, I guess I was just in a mood when I first heard it.

        • @irmoz@reddthat.com
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          19 months ago

          My favourite song is “Yellow” and my surname is “Rain”… you can guess what my first email at age 10 was…

          Okay I made that up, but I bet something like that has happened

  • Xusontha
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    199 months ago

    Oh god don’t remind me, I STILL have stuff tied to that email

    • @potoo22@programming.dev
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      109 months ago

      Friend got locked out of Instagram account because yahoo deactivated their email. Instagram flagged the email as inactive. After my friend forgot their password, Instagram wouldn’t send pw reset emails even after reactivating the account. They also has no direct customer support whatsoever, so that account was lost.

  • @ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    159 months ago

    I got pretty lucky that 1) my usernames have all been pretty tame if a bit boring and 2) I never published anything horrible under my IRL name

    • Nate
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      I publish all of my horrible stuff online under your real name just to fuck with you

    • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      When I was in college I got an early invite to Gmail, and did the fistname.lastname address.

      All my day jobs have also had the same format, as does my university faculty ID (I teach night classes).

      It’s kinda handy that you just use my (unique) name and the organization to get in touch with me.

      Though it’s super annoying on my phone’s autocomplete since the screen above the keyboard shows “firstname.lastname@…” 3 times and I don’t know which is which.

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        I do find that interesting all your jobs use the same name format. My jobs have all had different formats lol

        One was first initial last name, one was last name first initial (same as my school), my current one is just first name which is cool because if there are any other people who come here later I will be the original one lol, etc

        Also my second job had four people with the same name as me, but one of them was much older and died while I was still working there, then I left a year later so then they were down to two. lol

  • LCP
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    I still keep my Hotmail/Yahoo/etc., but I’ve gotten my name as a domain and use that for professional communication.

    It has catch-all support, so whether you send an email to hi@name.com or “XxX_360noscopegamer_xXx@name.com”, I still receive it.

    • @Misconduct@startrek.website
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      Wait, so you can just willy-nilly name emails for your domain for different online services and see who’s selling your data pretty easily then right?

      I mean… who isn’t selling our data but still lol

      • @Flumsy@feddit.de
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        Exactly and then you can block that one addressband you dont get spam anymore. You can make the addresses up as you go btw, it will receive every email sent to your domain anywaya

        • @Misconduct@startrek.website
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          19 months ago

          That’s actually really cool! I’ve been actively degoogling this year but my email is one of the last holdouts so I’ll have to look into this

          • @max@feddit.nl
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            Another advantage of having your own domain for email is that you can just pack your shit and move to greener pastures when your current email provider turns to shit. No need to change your email everywhere.

      • Illecors
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        49 months ago

        Yes! I’ve literally found out about a data leak this way before it was announced publicly.

  • Kalkaline
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    109 months ago

    Thank goodness Gmail came out so I could get away from my Yahoo email.

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    My first Hotmail address was based off my football position and jersey number. During high school I changed positions and numbers along the way, making it obsolete like a year after creating it

    Still useful for signing up to things I know are gonna spam me with bullshit though, the ad copy can join old MySpace reminders.