Stop google Chrome cron job?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Wed May 10 15:42:48 UTC 2023


On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 09:27:14AM -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> I am not so concerned about malevolence but about network stuff running
> outside my control.  I live in the third world (rural U.S.) and my internet
> connection is 1Mb/s (that's bit, not byte) with a monthly quota.  I hate
> to mention the "s" word but the first thing I do when installing Ubuntu is
> to kill the snapd process and mask the service.  I really need control over
> when updates run.

FYI it's possible to configure snapd not to automatically refresh snaps
these days, so the above approach is overkill:

  https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date#heading--hold

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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