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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Hearbeat notifications man. "Yes I am online" email once a day or so. Yeah it's more emails to delete but it can be a lifesaver.

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[–] Admax@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Oh but I have them !
Every day an email is sent out with the backup status.
Every day I got my email in the morning with the back up logs.
For years.
I associated email received to backup successful, until a month or so when my vpn broke and the emails where just "could not connect", but it took me a while to bother actually opening the message body as it had always been the same for years.

So I'll manage it differently, have the email subject be more explicit about a success or a failure amongst other things.
Always learning :^)

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

but you probably won't notice that some of the regular emails are not sent anymore

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[–] jeffep@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Couple it to your smart watch, backup every 10 seconds, and make it vibrate when successful

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

you are just making yourself learn to ignore that your smartwatch vibrates. It's a bit like breathing and blinking, you are so used to it you can completely forget that its happening. if your smartwatch, or phone, or whatever, starts vibrating all the time, you will get used to it and not notice when it stops happening anymore, but also it will hide any actually meaningful notification.

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