I’m really lost here. Created ubuntu droplet only, how would I download www.steampowered.com client and another program and run it 24/7 just to idle hours?
Was told something completely different, guess he wanted referral code bonus…
Just push me in the right direction, I don’t want to be spoon fed the whole time. Since I’m here I may as well learn.
At the moment I’m trying to add VNC desktop but I’ll want to learn how to do everything by code as it’ll take less ram. I’m someone who literally came here without any knowledge whatsoever but I’m not going to quit now. xD
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Rather than trigger on ‘idle’, there is a command called nice that can request the kernel scheduler to give the named program a lower priority. This can be used in scripts as well as the command line.
Program daemons are usually run in the background, and there are a few typical ways they are started:
Have fun learning these things.