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   On Sun, 1/25/2026 7:10 AM, MarioCCCP wrote:   
   >   
   > intro :   
   > I have enabled automatic updates (I mean downloads, not automatic installing   
   : the system simply downloads stuff when there are updates and let me choose   
   when to install it) for every service I was able to.   
   > This last sentence may sound vague, so let me clarify it :   
   > I have multiple package managers enabled   
   > The classic APT / synaptic, that should look for updates as soon as they are   
   available.   
   > Flatpak : here the situation is not clear to me since I have two distinct   
   services / dæmons : Plasma Discovery and Gnome Software. They both have   
   options, if I recall it right, but I don't always see them running in the task   
   monitor in the background.    
   They both, or one of them, often downloads in the background.   
   >   
   > Then I have some programs (telegram, pCloud, dropbox) that manage their own   
   updates privately. Telegram too manages it completely transparently (and shows   
   update to just complete and install the new version, pCloud just notifies the   
   availability and    
   let choose both dnld and installing, dropbox dunno, honestly).   
   >   
   >   
   > So far so good. But my problem is : i have a very week mobile connection and   
   no ADSL, so it happens that in certain particular situations, I'd need to   
   reserve all the bandwidth to the high priority task (uploading files, dnlding   
   stuff faster), and thus    
   I'd need to just SUSPEND every background downloading or lookup the repos, at   
   least for the two central databases (APT and FLATPAK).   
   > Without breaking or damaging any (i.g. hunting for the services in task list   
   and kill them !), like .... dunno, sending polite requests by systemD or so.   
   >   
   > Have anybody any advice how to fulfil this task ?   
   > tnx in advance.   
   >   
      
   For processes that listen to user preferences, there are features like this.   
      
     https://askubuntu.com/questions/711949/set-wifi-as-metered-connection   
      
        nmcli connection modify YOUR_WIFI_SSID connection.metered yes   
      
   That is basically a mechanism that is supposed to shed unnecessary   
   downloading activity. Like if you were on Hughes Satellite service   
   with the 2GB per month download cap, you would be enabling that   
   so only the barest necessities are downloaded.   
      
   You will have to check and see if such a feature exists today   
   in the networking stack (whatever has replaced Network Manager   
   this week).   
      
   Programs running in Ring3, don't have to listen to any settings.   
   They can be ignorant programs, sending packets whenever they feel like it.   
      
   Using the Firewall to block them, is another option. Constructing   
   a Raspberry PI and "PiHole" to externally block wasteful activity,   
   is another way to do it.   
      
   I don't use Flatpak, but when I saw the traffic that an (unused)   
   Flatpak was generating, I removed the package completely!   
      
      Paul   
      
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