Stop google Chrome cron job?

[Stuart McGraw]

On 5/10/23 09:42, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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

It's not solely the update control issue, it's also the size of snaps (I
mentioned my internet connection bandwidth :-))  And the problems and
restrictions of snaps that come up frequently.  There was discussion here
just recently about snapped Firefox's inability to open most file:// url's,
something I do frequently (e.g., I have a link on my local home page to
file:///usr/share/doc/.)  I can see how snap's and other corproratizations
of Linux make it easier for large companies to have their distributions
work out of the box and take more of the maintenance/security burden off
of end users (a good thing for many) but at a cost of less control for
end users and more difficulty making any changes (a bad thing for some
including me).

Thanks to you and  Oliver for the update on 'snap refresh --hold', I'll
keep that in mind for the future.