I was reminded of an old laptop (an HP 620) of mine, which had an added dedicated button for Bluetooth and Wifi.

I was reminded of an old laptop (an HP 620) of mine, which had an added dedicated button for Bluetooth and Wifi. It cycled through on/off stages for both in #Windows and was tied to it possibly though BIOS, but I'm not sure.
I was a #Linux user at the time. Oh the fun!

I had to keep dual boot Windows on it, because if for any reason the wifi was turned off at the BIOS level (I'm assuming), I had to boot to Windows, cycle with the button to have both turned on and then force power down (I think with software shutdown didn't work, but might've been my impatience as well). Now both BT and WLAN would work normally on Linux.

I really dislike non-standard solutions like that, but also topical stuff like specific streaming platform buttons in remotes or keyboard keys for a specific AI service, which obviously are not re-bindable and thusly useless at one point or another.