By default, there is no power button in the Raspberry Pi. The only way to safely shut it down is either to clicking the shutdown button (from a desktop environment) or sending a shutdown signal through SSH. Yes, you can just directly unplug the power...

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Datagod
I tell computers what to do. Sometimes they listen.
Thank you for sharing this. I have 4 of those cases. I was disappointed that the buttons didn't do what you would expect, but I never thought about installing a script. Too busy playing games I guess.