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Feb. 13th, 2019 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynApparently the only way to disable the stupid-ass Bixby assistant software on my phone completely- without rooting it or buying an app and giving it admin privileges- is to sign into my Samsung account, which I never wanted to create in the first place, and log into Bixby and change settings to 'no, don't do that', 'don't do that either', 'don't use this for that', and 'that physical button you put on the side, the button does NOTHING, ever, for anything'.
I didn't have a Samsung account to begin with, because why would I, so I had to put one together. Turns out Samsung refuses to let me sign up for an account with an email provided by any of the major disposable address services out there. Kind of a pity. sharklasers.com is an awesome domain name.
Gmail, as it happens, lets you adjust your email address somewhat. If your email is, say, camwyn at gmail, then you can tell an organization that your address is camwyn+, and put whatever you like that doesn't break the email system after the plus. And then you can tell your gmail account, "hey, any email that comes through addressed to camwyn+whatever? Yeah, automatically delete that."
I liked the words I pulled out of thin air and tacked onto my gmail address; they look enough like an Italian last name that I may just go ahead and use them as such on future email accounts created on other services. So that would make my Internet name Camwyn Sodone, because I am so freaking done with mailing lists and marketing services, and also because Samsung refused to let me use 'camwyn+dammit' as part of my email address.
Mind you, Samsung also demanded a firstname and lastname separate from my email address. As far as they know, Camwyn Sodone's real name is Like Heckiwill. And Like Heckiwill lives in rural Arizona, because I wasn't about to give them my actual zipcode either, or any zipcode I have ever lived in, visited, or written to.
I didn't have a Samsung account to begin with, because why would I, so I had to put one together. Turns out Samsung refuses to let me sign up for an account with an email provided by any of the major disposable address services out there. Kind of a pity. sharklasers.com is an awesome domain name.
Gmail, as it happens, lets you adjust your email address somewhat. If your email is, say, camwyn at gmail, then you can tell an organization that your address is camwyn+, and put whatever you like that doesn't break the email system after the plus. And then you can tell your gmail account, "hey, any email that comes through addressed to camwyn+whatever? Yeah, automatically delete that."
I liked the words I pulled out of thin air and tacked onto my gmail address; they look enough like an Italian last name that I may just go ahead and use them as such on future email accounts created on other services. So that would make my Internet name Camwyn Sodone, because I am so freaking done with mailing lists and marketing services, and also because Samsung refused to let me use 'camwyn+dammit' as part of my email address.
Mind you, Samsung also demanded a firstname and lastname separate from my email address. As far as they know, Camwyn Sodone's real name is Like Heckiwill. And Like Heckiwill lives in rural Arizona, because I wasn't about to give them my actual zipcode either, or any zipcode I have ever lived in, visited, or written to.
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Date: 2019-02-13 02:52 pm (UTC)Would they take email aliases? I own lostinabook.org for the express purpose of providing email aliases to authors who need non-major-email addresses to manage their mailing lists, and am happy to set aliases up for people I know.
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