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[utterances-bot]

A Mac mini as a home server | stealthpuppy

Setting up macOS on a Mac mini M1 as a home server. macOS isn’t built to run as a server, but with a few tweaks you can get it to run quite well.

https://stealthpuppy.com/mac-mini-home-server/

[probablyVincentIp]

Hiya, I'm currently in the same situation that you were, I'm looking to replace my n95 based Debian server with a M1 Mac Mini. Two questions that I haven't been able to get a definitive answer to is whether you can ssh into the device after boot, some workarounds are floating around to setup auto login but that means someone could potentially access the unlocked computer (I'm mostly talking about curious child hands) if it boots straight to desktop?

Second does the m1 support wake on LAN?