Easier to handle and dump would be my guess.

In my state you can shoot, butcher, and then dispose of all of the waste (bones, skin, etc) from a deer directly into the trash. My first thought would have been, assuming you feel bones inside, that it’s from hunting.

It’s the default in the new PiOS

Google and partners have been showing off some pretty cool use cases for Gemini, mostly related to GCP, at Next 24.

Exactly that. Run a docker container (probably privileged) that has your local volume mounted. Inside that docker container install cifs-utils and then connect to the SMB server from there via CLI.

Maybe use a docker container?

Are you using Linux at work without systemd? Seems unlikely. All our 400+ nodes run RHEL and consequently systemd. This doesn’t seem to impact our researchers’ use of CUDA in the slightest when executing code on the nodes or in any kind of container.