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Yes, but you are unlikely to have your PUK code (its on the card you got your sim with) if you have also lost the sim. Its a much more losable bit of plastic, and without it (or a contract) why would an operator give you the PUK code for a number they can’t prove you used to have access to? It would be impossible to tell if you are trying to steal someones number.
you walk into the shop with your passport or driving licence....
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you walk into the shop with your passport or driving licence....
Try it
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Not really - this “tradition” as you call it obviously started back in the day when women did not have equal rights in society and only the husband’s lineage mattered.
How do you propose fixing that? Let the kids take both parents last names? In few generations you end with kids having their entire family tree as their last name! It might even make marrying within the tribe attractive again to keep last name single word!
You can do hyphenated last names for a kid and let the kids decide what names they want to carry forward for the next generation. Or they can make up their own. The point is it’s up to them and they can choose whatever they want and not be coerced to do something because of some tradition that is rooted in sexism.
I wish they'd let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP generator, and the codes I'd written down in a paper notebook were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures. Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had impor…
I use Thunderbird on my laptop precisely so that I have a copy of all my email. I can consult it while offline, I can switch providers, change my mail address, without losing anything and without having to rearrange anything.
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Yikes. This post is an unsettling reminder that gmail is a single point of failure in my personal and financial security.
Email services in general. My worst nightmare is my email provider (which isn't Google) going dark and losing access to everything.
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I have a first.last email, but it's created quite the interesting situation. Turns out some dude in Australia has the same first+last name as me, and he's been using firstlast@gmail.com. As far as I can find from Google's documentation, the email with no dots should be the primary and the one with dots an alias, but I'm guessing because I registered mine ages ago (back in 2006) it takes precedence. I have no idea how…
I have this same issue! But I can log in with or without dots… but it’s like someone else thinks their email is my email without the dots. I can’t really figure out what is happening. The volume is way too high for it to be spam though.
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Gmail is a throwaway email. I lost my SIM and hence can't log in anymore. Never ever rely on Gmail.
Huh? Are phone numbers tied to physical sims in your country? You can't just ask the phone company to give you a new sim with the same number?
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I wouldn't know, I don't look at my spam folder.
Gmail spam filtering is poor enough that a lot of obvious spam reaches the inbox as well. The quality of the spam filter alone is a good enough reason to move off gmail.