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And it won’t do CRON because reasons

Bugs me too. Your best bet is launchd which solves the problem, but it is a bit of pain to write job definition property lists. More here: https://www.launchd.info

This is a useful library for plists, in case you're interested - https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html

> it is a bit of pain to write job definition property lists

http://launched.zerowidth.com/ makes it easier.

Ironically -- I think this bug is fixed in a like 10.15.3 or so. Eitherway a cron I set up over a year ago before I realized this bug has started mailing me since I updated to Catalina.

Ah, thanks. That jogged my memory. I did turn off power nap a long time ago, but my laptop still kept waking up at night anyhow. But I just checked, and now it seems to work as advertised.

Wouldn't it be fantastic, if Apple had an easy way to help users learn, why their mac woke up? Currently that is complex scientific work.

> Mobile Device Management can remotely lock and wipe your Mac.

I appreciate the transparency here. Outside of API documentation, a lot of plain-language information doesn't go in-depth enough about MDM capabilities.