• Ulrich
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    63 days ago

    Brother, I am not a programmer and do not know what any of these words mean, and am not interested in becoming one. I just want to use a computer. This is precisely why I can’t use Linux.

        • Of the Air (cele/celes)
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          2 days ago

          Both cron jobs and scheduled tasks are ways of making a computer do something at a certain time and/or date automatically without any user input apart from the initial inputting of setting it up.

    • @Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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      13 days ago

      Then how do you know that the magic spell I gave you doesn’t do it “automatically”? Either you’re lying and you actually a programmer, since we know you need to be a programmer to be able to read, or you somehow figured out how to read it without being one, but that would be crazy, absolutely crazy.
      Anyway, if for some reason you need your system to decide when to update and reboot, there is an easily googlable setting for it, and if you just need to emulate window’s “update and shutdown” button, I gave you it for my preferred Linux distribution, and it’s not more complicated on all the other ones.

      • Ulrich
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        23 days ago

        Because I know enough to know that commands don’t run themselves.

          • Ulrich
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            23 days ago

            I am not a programmer and do not know what any of these words mean

        • @Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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          23 days ago

          Well, “update and shutdown” button is a button, it also doesn’t press itself. I hope you’re being intentionally obtuse, at least this way someone is having fun

          • Ulrich
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            3 days ago

            No, but the updates are downloaded automatically and the button is changed from “shut down” to “update and shut down” automatically. And I don’t appreciate your unwarranted insinuations.