• Ulrich
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      52 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.

      • JackbyDev
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        14 hours ago

        You think you can’t use Linux because you can’t set up something to automatically install updates? Nah, don’t worry about that. You really still can. You don’t need to know what a cronjob is lol. (Just some commands that run on a schedule.)

        • Ulrich
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          123 minutes ago

          You think you can’t use Linux because you can’t set up something to automatically install updates?

          No, because doing anything in Linux is DIY in the terminal. I don’t have time for that. I have a job already.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 day 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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          21 day ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            21 day 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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              1 day 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.

            • Ulrich
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              21 day ago

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

          • Of the Air (cele/celes)
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            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.