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But for checking my email once a day while on holiday to see if anything urgent has come in? Saving $20 to not check your email and find out what breaks when y

But for checking my email once a day while on holiday to see if anything urgent has come in? Saving $20 to not check your email and find out what breaks when you're unavailable is a win win.

alibarber 4y ago
They could offer the ‘are you feeling lucky’ package. Free all day every day to check to see if something urgent has come in… $200 an hour to use VPN / Web to fix that something urgent. This is how I managed to break the cycle of checking work things on my latest holiday. Was I actually going to do anything about ‘something urgent’ there and then? No? Well don’t bother checking. Nothing bad happened.
danpalmer 4y ago
This assumes you're checking it for work reasons, and not for, say, healthcare, or financial reasons. Plenty of people have reasons to check email that are not about work, and where they could reasonably need to be contactable. It's quite a privilege in many ways to be able to fully disconnect.
- onion2k 4y ago
  If you're in a situation where you might urgently need to check an email then boarding a boat and going out in to the middle of the ocean as far from an Internet connection as humanly possible is probably an less than optimal IT strategy.
- alibarber 4y ago
  If you or a loved one has potentially urgent healthcare issues - then a cruise is not sensible. I've had relatives who have had to cancel in the past because of this - travel insurance is a good investment (and there's a reason it gets more expensive the older / sicker you get...) My general point here is, something, anything, urgent has come up. What're you gonna do? Swim to shore? I can think of the convenience of forgetting to pay a bill and then doing it online - in which case it's up to you to figure if whatever internet fee you pay would save you on potential late fees.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    Being out of contact was often the absolutely normal state of affairs until 25 years or so ago. If you must be reachable, stay by the phone. Otherwise, someone may not be able to get in touch with you right now in many circumstances.

But for checking my email once a day while on holiday to see if anything urgent has come in? Saving $20 to not check your email and find out what breaks when you're unavailable is a win win.

alibarber 4y ago

They could offer the ‘are you feeling lucky’ package. Free all day every day to check to see if something urgent has come in… $200 an hour to use VPN / Web to fix that something urgent. This is how I managed to break the cycle of checking work things on my latest holiday. Was I actually going to do anything about ‘something urgent’ there and then? No? Well don’t bother checking. Nothing bad happened.

danpalmer 4y ago

This assumes you're checking it for work reasons, and not for, say, healthcare, or financial reasons. Plenty of people have reasons to check email that are not about work, and where they could reasonably need to be contactable. It's quite a privilege in many ways to be able to fully disconnect.

onion2k 4y ago
If you're in a situation where you might urgently need to check an email then boarding a boat and going out in to the middle of the ocean as far from an Internet connection as humanly possible is probably an less than optimal IT strategy.
alibarber 4y ago
If you or a loved one has potentially urgent healthcare issues - then a cruise is not sensible. I've had relatives who have had to cancel in the past because of this - travel insurance is a good investment (and there's a reason it gets more expensive the older / sicker you get...) My general point here is, something, anything, urgent has come up. What're you gonna do? Swim to shore? I can think of the convenience of forgetting to pay a bill and then doing it online - in which case it's up to you to figure if whatever internet fee you pay would save you on potential late fees.
- ghaff 4y ago
  Being out of contact was often the absolutely normal state of affairs until 25 years or so ago. If you must be reachable, stay by the phone. Otherwise, someone may not be able to get in touch with you right now in many circumstances.