[MattConfluence]

One time I was using my laptop to remote desktop into a computer I was hundreds of km away from physically, I discovered that if I hit the power key on the laptop (yes, the laptop had a key on the keyboard for power, not a separate power button) while having the remote session window focused, it sent the signal over the wire and put the remote host to sleep instead. Whoops.

After that I looked up how to enable wake-on-lan and open up a port to be able to do that remotely.

[ahartmetz]

I don't have the best experience with Wake-on-LAN, it stopped working after a BIOS update or something. So now my desktop is set to turn on when power comes back and it's connected to a WiFi switchable power socket. I bought one with the usual app/cloud rubbish and flashed Tasmota on it.

[iudqnolq]

I have some smart plugs I was planning to hack the network protocol of. I looked up Tasmota but I couldn't figure out how I could see if it would work with the random crap I bought on AliExpress and if so how to do it. Any advice?