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by sairahul82 2556 days ago
I use it to remotely start my computer. My raspberry pi is always on and i use "wake on lan"[1] to start my desktop whenever needed. My desktop is powerful and consumes decent amount of power. Using Rpi to start is lot more power efficient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN