Back in the 1990s, a Mac sysadmin showed me a clever trick for this.

Get one specific Apple Desktop Bus keyboard that has a soft power key on it, I believe the Apple Extended Keyboard[1]. Then get a Bic pen[2]. Push down the power key on the keyboard, and while it's still down, wedge the pen cap between the key and the keyboard case.

The pen cap is the perfect size and shape to hold the key down, and Bic pens are easy to find. There are no ill effects from having the power key down all the time, and the Mac will boot up after a power failure. So you don't have to drive to work just to push the power button.

This was especially handy considering you sometimes needed to use Macs as servers (file server, printing, certain Mac-only applications, etc.), but Apple did not make servers.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Extended_Keyboard

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bic_Cristal

  LOM enables power management even if the Xserve is off, and even if it lacks an installed operating system.

Edit: Xserve was an Apple rack mounted server that ran a special version of Mac OS X

The title is: "Apple FINALLY lets you do this!"

The thumbnail shows someone plugging in (or unplugging) the power cable from a Mac Mini.

Neither is relevant to the video. Neither tells you what it's about. I'm sure this kind of clickbait works, because otherwise it wouldn't exist, but I am never going to click on that kind of slop. Never.

It hurts even more to see the "turn power on whenever power is detected" feature is locked to Mac hardware from 2024 or newer. I don't see a reason why not all Apple Silicon machines can support this feature.

Of course, it didn't work if you set your Mac to shut down if the UPS is running out of power, which was always quite annoying. You want a clean shutdown, but you also want it to come back up. I think I got around this by using shutdown hook scripts to unmount everything then just stop.

I might be wrong.