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I turn my desktop off every single day, so I need the power button daily, I turn my work laptop off weekly.
There's no reason to turn off a Mac Mini. It uses about a watt of power in sleep. The idle draw from the power supply in your desktop probably uses more power than the Mac Mini in sleep.
those should be reversed