• FreshLight@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    Oh fuck. I’ll use this from now on. Except for if I won’t use it next week. Then I’ll forget about it because my memory is a damn sieve.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 years ago

      Just take the next step and make a text file you dump all these commands into and then forget about in a week. When you randomly stumble across it years from now you’ll be able to say “wow, I could have used this 10 months ago if I remembered it existed!”

    • Technofrood@feddit.uk
      2·
      2 years ago

      Use a systemd timer to send yourself a reminder. Discoverd them recently myself and honestly liking them more than cron.

  • mogoh@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    Usually such things have a simple explanation. systemd does a lot with time and date, for example scheduling tasks. It’s quite obvious that it has this capabilities, when you think about it.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Already have a program that does that one thing, well. For stuff about dates, try the date command.

    As in the case of wanting to know the day of the week of some distant future event’s date:

    date -d "YYYY-MM-DD" +"%A".

    Had that before systemd existed.

    … Since “systemd is all you need” do systemd users uninstall date?

      • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        it will be replaced by systemd-dated soon

        Not on my machines.

        I distrust the tech and the corporation behind the tech being pushed on us as the one true way.

        I have no room for the one true way in the Free Software paradigm.

        Amen for choice. Grateful for init freedom. … Grateful for date freedom. … And whatever else systemd attempts to embrace-extend-extinguish.

        … Just realised, I can’t tell if that[“it will be replaced by systemd-dated soon”]'s satire. Systemd, so bad, one can say horrible things they’ll be doing, and listeners will not be able to tell. Systemd, so bad, it’s beyond susceptibility to satirical reductio-absurdism, already reduced to the absurd.