What kind of maintenance were you doing? Building the things is turning out to be a pain for me, but actual maintenance shouldn't be much more than for a regular PC. You still have to dust a regular PC after all. You do occasionally have to change fluid, but shouldn't need doing more than every 4 years or so if you use something like DP Ultra or car coolant.
That's actually pretty much the opposite of how that works. More fans generally mean lower noise as they don't need to run as hard to deliver the same volume of air. Same with larger fans. There is eventually a point where adding more fans hurts rather than helps, but it's probably more fans than you would think. All of this is especially true for watercooling and radiator fans, the more radiator area and associated fans you have the better. My desktop with 3 radiators and 8 radiator fans is quieter than my server with one radiator, 3 radiator fans and 2 case fans, and that's despite the desktop having a higher total heat load.
I suspect the actual PC used is at least fairly powerful though. Like someone else said it's likely using ECC as its mission critial, so chances are it also has other expensive server parts inside. Not all powerful computers actually look like anything fancy at all. This post reminds me of things like the watercooling subreddit and the amount of effort and money they put into things like aesthetics, that don't actually improve performance at all. Even though the original point of watercooling was performance.
If its an Asus there is actually a setting to deal specifically with the lighting. One in the UEFI turns it off completely. Otherworldly you can install their software and tell it to turn off when the PC is off or in sleep mode.
To me it looks like they used a bad camera that's too soft. That's all. AI images are often sharper and better looking than this if done using a good enough model and techniques.
There are actual cats that look like this, so probably it's real. It certainly doesn't seem AI generated to me.
GPTs also don't make images. That's not what Transformers do, and GPT means Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It's diffusion models and variational autoencoders that make images.
In many cases that kind of answer is correct though. People ask for things that aren't a good idea on a regular basis. Sometimes what they want is correct for their circumstances, but often not.
There is a manual pre-installed on your machine for most commands available. You just type man and the name of the thing you want the manual for. Many commands also have a --help option that will give you a list of basic options.
I should point out this isn't Linux specific either. Many of these commands come from Unix or from other systems entirely. macOS has a similar command line system actually. It's more that Linux users tend to use and recommend the command line more. Normally because it's the way of doing things that works across the largest number of distributions and setups, but also because lots of technical users prefer command line anyway. Hence why people complain about Windows command lines being annoying. I say command lines because they actually have two of them for some odd reason. Anyway I hope this helped explain why things are the way they are.
Honestly your asking the wrong person here. I would suggest maybe starting with Krapotkin or Bakunin who were some of the early anarchists. That or just looking up anarchist philosophy and history. Anarchists have a history fighting against both fascism and some marxist tendencies like the Bolsheviks.
They definitely do have positions and beliefs. I am not sure how much you actually understand anarchism. Anarchist "nations" have even been established before, but they tend to get invaded sooner or later. While they do sometimes ally with Marxists you would be correct in thinking they have few permanent allies. Hence the getting invaded part I guess.
Yeah this is terrible from a security and usability point of view. Just stop using proprietary bs systems. Why do you think so many technical people use Linux and avoid IoT devices like the plague? So we don't have to deal with companies doing stuff we don't like without a choice.
You understand that technical people often are the least likely to trust new technology and are often stuck in the mud when it comes to technology? Doubly so if you are anti-corporation. It seems anything that isn't the Unix way of doing things can be questioned.
There is a good meme about people who love technology vs people who actually work with the stuff. The former using IoT devices to turn their lights on while the latter uses a light switch and has a gun in case the printer starts making weird noises.
What kind of maintenance were you doing? Building the things is turning out to be a pain for me, but actual maintenance shouldn't be much more than for a regular PC. You still have to dust a regular PC after all. You do occasionally have to change fluid, but shouldn't need doing more than every 4 years or so if you use something like DP Ultra or car coolant.