There’s a simple solution to that:

The binary stuff is all on the paid usenet servers. Those are still very popular for piracy and not going away anytime soon.

The one thing DD won’t overwrite is bad sectors. If the disk has any reallocated sectors, the data in the original sectors may still be there.
If there are reallocated sectors, then the disk is reaching the end of it’s life and is not worth reusing anyways.

Training one AI with the output of another AI will just make an even crappier AI.

I’m surprised they even allowed that much to be uploaded. Even if it is “unlimited”, that must be against some sort of fair usage agreement.

If you need to archive over 250TB of data, you should get a tape drive.

I did that about 10 years ago because I got tired of removing malware for them. They haven’t had any malware since then.

They are still commonly used in RF amplifiers for ham radio too.

I’ve gotten both of my thinkpads used, so none of that money went to Lenovo or Microsoft. The laptops that come with Linux are expensive and are rarely available used.

I still get over 12 hours of web browsing or video playback with the backlight around 30% on mine even though my internal battery is down to 60% capacity and my external is around 90%. Standby drains about 10% overnight. I am running Linux Mint on mine and I set up TLP. Undervolting can increase the runtime quite a bit, but I haven’t bothered with that yet.

I would still consider an 8 year old CPU to be fairly recent considering performance has only increased a couple percent per generation.
12 bit video is uncommon, so support for it is not really needed. Intel Skylake or newer will work for 8 bit H.265.
If you have any video in 10 bit H.265, you will need a Kaby Lake or newer CPU in order to decode it in hardware. Software H.265 decoding will limit it to 1 or 2 streams depending on the CPU and video quality.

For real time transcoding, you will need a PC with a newer CPU that supports hardware H.265 encoding.

The T480 and T580 are some of the last ones they made with swapable batteries. Everything works out of the box in Linux except the fingerprint scanner which needs some additional configuration.

I have a T480 with an integrated GPU and the largest battery. It runs for a long time on a charge and there are lots of spare parts available.

The Raspberry Pi can work if you don’t need a lot of space or high performance. You will need an external drive or two for it. The power consumption will be very low too.

You can use an old PC if you need more drives. Just don’t use an old gaming PC since the power consumption will be rather high.

It could be resized too. 5120x1440 is way too big for a website banner. There’s no reason to go more than double the size it will actually be displayed at. That would bring it down to a couple hundred KB.

When the website and browser are made by the same company, they aren’t exactly motivated to make sure it runs well in other browsers.

That’s what GOG lets you do for games.

You’re probably not going to find a tablet with modular RAM, but 4GB will barely run a web browser these days. You will be using swap a lot and that will put a lot of wear on the non replacable SSD.

Don’t waste your money on a PC with 4GB of RAM that’s soldered on the motherboard.

Well, that’s scary. Now we can have mind reading robots.

You can run multiple X servers for a graphical multiseat setup. It’s a lot of work to set it up and most of the information about it is out of date though.