Reading the whole thread, and
motd(5), I am still not sure about what’s the canonical way of turning off the „message(s) of the day“ altogether. While I like the OS information, I dislike aleatory messages of Drew in special, and in general any stuff which you get without having asked for.
In the moment I have an empty
/etc/motd.template, is this the correct way of suppressing any of the messages?
My son uses Windows 10 for gaming, and I set up the machine in 2019 and ever since I only made sure that it becomes updated frequently, without paying too much attention to the UI. Yesterday, I entered into my admin account of said machine, and suddenly in the task bar I recognized a weather and news item, that must have happened in the course of the 21H1 update, WTF, a visual motd. And the best of all, it came with similar obstacles like our new
motd(5) on how to turn this off.
I am not so much concerned about the exact mechanism, I dislike the missing/hidden OFF setting/button.