What are your favourite, or least favourite but necessary, cost-cutting methods?

I feel I am spending too many resources on unnecessary stuff.

  • Anafroj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    Basically, yes. You can configure most cron programs to mail task output to you (it’s usually done by setting the MAILTO variable in the crontab, provided sendmail is available on your system).

    I use that to do things like:

    0 9 11 10 * echo 'lunch with John Doe at 12:20'

    It sends me a mail, and I can see the upcoming events with crontab -l. If it’s not a recurring event, I then delete the rule.

    • krash@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      And to expand further on simplicity, one can avoid using email and send messages over ntfy with just a POST curl call.

      I like your setup!

    • TheHolm@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Damn, I’m doing *nixes for nearly 30 years. But never went to that level of minimalism. Nice trick.