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Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

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Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

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Post by account42 »

nosioptar wrote: post #394
slipknotfan wrote: post #387

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you can solve the google problem: cd C: && find -type f | grep google | sudo xargs rm and also the win11 problem: format C:

Why run two commands when the following will remove both google and windows in one command? cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_insta…

You forgot echo CFLAGS=-funroll-all-loops >> /etc/portage/make.conf

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Post by jjbinx007 »

slavoingilizov wrote: post #587

So many seem to have made a similar move. But the one thing holding me back: starting with a new email address. My email address is not just for email. It's so firmly embedded in my digital life, it's hard to think how to remove it. It's my identity. I use "login with Google" in most places where it's available. It's my backup recovery for my MFA authenticator. It's my github alias. So what is the strategy everyone f…

Same here. What worries me most is what if Google just decide for whatever reason to close my email account down. I've already had several Youtube accounts closed for (in my opinion) spurious reasons. The appeals process is a joke. I can live without Youtube, but I can't easily get myself out of the gmail hole I've dug over the last 2 decades.

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

Slow_Hand wrote: post #376
EchoReflection wrote: post #375

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yes. Fastmail can "automatically" do that, if you configure it to have those rules.

If I configure my rules today and then tomorrow I sign up for a new site do I have to amend my rules to also filter the new site? Because that's too much manual management. It's not a lot for a single site, yes, but x10 new sites a month it is too much. It's death by 1,000 cuts. I don't ever have to do it with Gmail, and that is a tremendous amount of time saved. It is a lifesaver.

You can create one thematic alias and give it as your email to 1000 sites that belong to that category, they all will send millions messages to that alias.

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

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Post by VileSquirrel »

slavoingilizov wrote: post #587

So many seem to have made a similar move. But the one thing holding me back: starting with a new email address. My email address is not just for email. It's so firmly embedded in my digital life, it's hard to think how to remove it. It's my identity. I use "login with Google" in most places where it's available. It's my backup recovery for my MFA authenticator. It's my github alias. So what is the strategy everyone f…

I set up a redirection and tried to change my gmail address with the new one in all the important places I could (took a couple hours; now and then I notice a new one I should change). I also still have my gmail address set up in my mail client so I can answer from gmail if I need to, but that never happened in more than a year. For everyone that actually knows me I gave them the new address when it came up.

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #437
BTBurke wrote: post #419

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If the email body contains the word unsubscribe, send it to the promotional folder. One rule to rule them all.

And then my banking updates go into promotions. Along with notifications I set up on streaming sites, and newsletters, and patreon posts. It's not that simple.

I receive promotions from my bank, but only because they bothered to ask my email, other banks spam robocalls.

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

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Post by Gigachad »

GoblinSlayer wrote: post #555
Gigachad wrote: post #485

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It's also IMAP is an awful protocol with so many glaring issues its impossible for a modern client to paper over them. Fastmail invented JMAP but it doesn't seem to have taken off with any other providers.

>so many glaring issues like what?

From memory, there are no bulk actions, so if you want to say select all emails and delete you have to send thousands of requests. If you want to rename a folder you have to send a request for every email in the folder. There is no way to set up filters that run server side, there is no way to get push notifications.

And probably a million other things that don’t hold up today.

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

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Post by rsynnott »

> The message you’re sending is that you think I’m not capable of reading and writing my own emails.

Huh, really? The message I take from Google’s AI fetish is that Google is _desperate_ to push this stuff on people so that they can show use and make it look like less of an expensive failure. It’s kind of comical at this point; you can’t use a Google thing without being bombarded with pleading to use Gemini.

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

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Post by gblargg »

itake wrote: post #573
why_at wrote: post #151

I can appreciate LLMs for some use cases, but writing emails for the user is the one that really baffles me. It's one thing if you don't speak English well and could use some help making yourself understood, but the amount of native speakers using this is so strange to me. How does this help you? If you can write to the LLM telling it what kind of email to write, you might as well just write the email.

speaking is faster than typing. My current process is: 1. Use Google Eloquent or directly into ChatGPT to dictate the email. 2. Then ask AI to polish, simplify, summarize, and I provide my writing style [0]. That gets sent to the user. I am very careful to not allow the AI to write too much. The alternative is I spend 20+ minutes writing and re-writing the email. [0] - https://www.kcoleman.me/writing/slack/2023/03/11…

As an aside, using an LLM results in a post that's all black text, except a couple of colorful emojis that jump out:

> Speak with confidence. “I think that I can possibly consider agreeing” . Don’t share weak decisions or opinions. Either agree, or disagree.

When I see those I mentally downgrade the whole text.

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

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Post by pietro72ohboy »

jasonfarnon wrote: post #305
supertroop wrote: post #95

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Doesn’t happen on mac either, right?

I can't get my ipad to shut up about iCloud storage. At least with windows I know how to turn that stuff off (worse case registry fix). I have no idea how to hack Apple's stuff.

I just got off from their 50GB plan and the amount of nagging has been insane. There's a giant banner in the photos app, a banner in the health app and everything else that I removed from icloud backups, strongly suggesting (in what I must imagine would be a well-studied message designed to induce panic amongst less tech-savvy users) that I am in a perilous situation and must restore icloud backups immediately. Deeply shameful and has made me even more aware of their shenanigans.
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