OK, so I called Applecare for my email problems. They pretty quickly went right to erase HD and redownload the OS. I didn't want to but they had no other answers.

So, we erased the HD and now I cannot connect to the internet to get to recovery. When I had to do this with my older MBP, I could do recovery after connecting to Ethernet. Of course, the MBP I have now doesn't have that port and I don't have that adapter.

I am wondering if I can connect my two computers to an HDMI cable (I would connect the HDMI to my new MBP and a thunderbolt HDMI adapter to the HDMI cable and then to my old MBP.) Then I would connect the old MBP to Ethernet.

Will this get me to the internet so I can get to recovery mode?

I can't believe all the problems I am having lately since I got my newer MBP.

MacBook Pro - M2, Ventura 13.6
Safari Tech Prev 17.0
Safari 16.6
Firefox 116.0.2
iPhone 7 Version 15.8