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One of my favourite "strange" features of my G3 Desktop Mac was "Scheduled startup". You could set a time and date, then shut down the mac. On schedule, it wou
by grecy 3y ago
One of my favourite "strange" features of my G3 Desktop Mac was "Scheduled startup". You could set a time and date, then shut down the mac.
On schedule, it would boot right up (as long as it was plugged in at the time)
- Vogtinator 3y agoMost PCs of that era had it as well. It still exists today at least for waking up from suspend. It's even exposed through WakeSystem=true in systemd timers.
- nightfly 3y agoMost desktop computers are able to do this, pretty sure. I've used this on an old Dell plus a UPS with outlets that only activate when the PC is on to build an over complicated timer for a lamp before