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0 pointsspike0211y ago0 comments

I have a Mac Mini and can't remember the last time I had to manually press the button. IIRC it even reboots on its own after a power outage.

I think I shut it down once for an extended vacation just to make sure appliances weren't on while I was gone and when I switched apartments. Otherwise I'd check and post my uptime from the command line.

It's a launch M1 mini so I'd wager less times pressing the power button than I have fingers on one hand.

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shuckles1y ago

Apple Silicon devices turn on automatically from IO, even after shut down, so the power button is only useful to: force shutdown if unresponsive or execute some sort of boot key combo to enter a recovery mode.

littlecranky671y ago

And if you use bluetooth IO (non-apple). I do on my Mac Mini M2, and yet I have maybe pressed that button 3 times in the year that I am using it as my main machine as I never power it off.

drcongo1y ago

I'd never thought about it before reading this comment but I now realise I don't even know where the power button on my Mac Studio is. I used it once when I first set it up and haven't touched it since.

jasomill1y ago

IIRC it even reboots on its own after a power outage.

While macOS presents a "Start up automatically after a power failure" option, and it works, the reality is…complicated.

Intel Macs require a model-specific hardware register to be set after each reboot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230218203824/http://www.macfre...

The analogous setting on Apple Silicon Macs appears to be nonvolatile:

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/blob/de1c5a8be0ee99602e4...

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