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I use my email for "actual correspondence" at least once a week... Also check both daily and multiple times a day!

jaspattack wrote: ↑October 4th, 2023, 8:25 pm Admittedly, people not checking their emails has been a thing for a very very long time. If nothing else, most emails are just junk nowadays. I rarely receive anything of actual importance in my personal email, it's almost entirely just promotions and occasionally receipts or bills. People haven't sent and received actual correspondence through email since the mid 2000s.

I find that Gmail's automatic "sorting" works quite well, although it often isn't good at filtering out emails from things you have signed up for. Deletion rules are the only thing keeping my inbox relatively in check; it's definitely sad that it's hardly used by actual people. The worst part is when sites use a human-like name for their mailing list (e.g. freecodecamp), because that bypasses pretty much all filters there are.

I check my email like every ten minutes

onshape wrote: ↑October 1st, 2023, 7:32 am what apwh textbooks did you guys use? My school's doing Voyages in World History.

AMSCO and Cengage's The Earth and Its People

Ugh, I really don't feel like reinstalling my operating system right now, but looks like my SSD is getting worse quickly (already updated my backups). Well, technically I could try to clone, but I'd rather reinstall, especially when I can upgrade OS versions safer at the same time.

pumptato-cat wrote: ↑October 4th, 2023, 8:28 pm Help am I just old or something
I use my email for "actual correspondence" at least once a week... Also check both daily and multiple times a day!

Do you just have like, friends you keep up with exclusively via email? I send a lot of what I would consider "actual correspondence" through email but it's mostly professional stuff. The last time I used email for personal correspondence was when I was in Europe over the summer and my mom and I would email back and forth about what we did that week.

And by "junk" I don't necessarily mean outright spam or malicious emails, I just mean promotional emails/automated mailing lists/other things that I often just delete without reading. One reason I feel like people don't use email as much as they might have before is that IMO it almost exclusively serves as a vector for advertisements nowadays. Anytime you buy something online or do anything anywhere it seems like you get automatically added to some mailing list which often emails you at least once a day, if not more. I bought something from Bed Bath and Beyond one time and I swear they emailed me 3 times per day with ads until I removed myself from the mailing list. Things I care about in my *personal* email consist of like, mailing lists I'm signed up for, receipts for things I buy, and the off-chance that I am notified of something that I was not expecting (e.g. a payment I forgot about or something I dunno).

My personal mail account is through Outlook and I find it does a pretty good job sorting into my "Focused" inbox, but the actual spam filter is pretty subpar. I've seen several spam emails get through while no matter how often I mark legitimate emails as legitimate they always go to junk. Very cool Microsoft thank you

As for actually checking my email, I get notifications on my phone anytime I get an email so that's most of how I check my email. If the subject line/person sending it seems important, then I might read it as soon as I get it. If not, I might read it when I actually sit down and check my email at some point. If I don't read it then, it's probably never getting read and it'll just sit in my inbox forever.

TL;DR I find that my email is 95% just advertisements and I don't care about advertisements so maybe I don't check it every day. My university email is pristine and beautiful though so I'm always checking it. Separation of church and state or something like that.

EDIT: omg new page hello 2880

Welp, guess just in time, wasn't even able to read the old drive externally, had to use backup drive. Too bad I couldn't get my browser to seamlessly transfer (easily enough), so tons of things to get setup again.

jaspattack wrote: ↑October 5th, 2023, 1:28 pm EDIT: omg new page hello 2880

page 2880? how come I'm only at page 2863?

jaspattack wrote: ↑October 5th, 2023, 1:28 pm

pumptato-cat wrote: ↑October 4th, 2023, 8:28 pm Help am I just old or something
I use my email for "actual correspondence" at least once a week... Also check both daily and multiple times a day!

Do you just have like, friends you keep up with exclusively via email? I send a lot of what I would consider "actual correspondence" through email but it's mostly professional stuff. The last time I used email for personal correspondence was when I was in Europe over the summer and my mom and I would email back and forth about what we did that week.

Yeah! I have a friend who writes me letters sometimes as well. I mostly email the coaches for flight though =) And I take piano lessons, so my teacher talks to me through there outside of class.

It's humiliating how I take precalc and still have to watch Algebra 1 videos to remember basic math stuff sometimes...