• PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    I’ve wanted this for a while; when I’m done with my computer, I don’t mind it staying on a bit longer to do this, rather than when I next turn it on when I (presumably) want to do something. Great add!

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      4 months ago

      You know what else would be awesome? “Update, reboot, and (just this once) automatically login”

      It would be super useful for when I’m alone at home working but want to do updates over my lunch break.

      • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 months ago

        I think an issue is, this sets up your computer to have a way to bypass putting your password in on boot. If you don’t care about security too much and don’t have things like secure boot and encryption, then that’s bypassable anyways… But otherwise, I’d be concerned about introducing systems that specifically bypass security.

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          As long as you have to put in your password when you enable this I feel like it’s fine. There’s plenty of times, especially on Linux, where the user has to bypass security limitations to do this (sudo being the most obvious example)

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      I wonder how that will play together with Distros like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed where you basically do a whole OS upgrade and are not supposed to do “just” updates.

      I hope we can easily supply our own script to run.