TIL: User systemd Timers Can Die When You Log Out

Earlier in June, there was a post on Hacker News written by Tyler Langlois on the versatility of systemd timers that happened to line up with my decision to migrate my personal scripts onto a new VM. I thought, what the heck, maybe it is time to make the move from cron. The post was convincing enough that timers would make diagnostics and job monitoring easier, and the thought of having…