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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothings stopping you. It achieves the same thing. Some people might just prefer this since it’s easier and gets logged in the systemd journal? The Arch wiki lists some nice benefits of using systemd timers as a replacement to cron jobs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Phew, I thought it would trigger the Cron Goblin