alt Hacker News> the Remote Device Management baked into firmware as Apple does with its hardware?
What do you mean? Linux had SSH (and before that rlogin) for a very long time already.
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surajrmal • last Sunday at 6:26 PM
Do you think ssh is an equivalent to remote device management? Half the reason Chromebook does well is because it's really good at remote device management.
Apple devices support MDM. When you purchase the device, the device's firmware is configured to check in with an account owner. The firmware has an integrity feature such that this configuration cannot be removed by a user: https://it-training.apple.com/tutorials/deployment/dm005/
If OP just meant remote management through a BMC then that's not common except for server hardware, and it would have features like Redfish to configure the hardware itself. Apple devices don't have this.
You can also buy hardware to act as a remote keyboard/mouse/monitor and power button, and it supports systems whose motherboards have the right headers: https://pikvm.org/