You are talking about photos. PNG is not the right format for photos.

No, but it should still work. Getting rid of alpha channels would break all of that.

I don’t get why they didn’t just buy ebooks? Why go through the trouble of scanning physical books?

They could have just bought the ebooks…

The last refurbished drives I bought were all in the range of 10€/TB

Sure, but the OP has a singular task to fulfill which he can easily check if it is done correctly. The premade tools don’t have the functionality, now what? Tell him to learn how to code?

How is asking chatgpt to do it any different as to using a different pre made tool? Both do not require programming.

Ask chatgpt for a python script to do exactly that task. Maybe you get what you want, maybe not.

Helped me out quite a few times with niche tasks like this.

I take it, you have never been asked to help someone with their windows machine. Did you count the toolbars in internet explorer?

As an anecdote: I have one system (x86) with pi-hole and unbound in a docker, and a secondary raspberry pi with pi-hole running on bare metal. The docker system (although much more performant in general) has a lower latency as the raspberry bare metal install.

I have all these services in docker as well (although not with the docker compose file here) and they run perfectly fine with a very low resource footprint.

Well. Building spaceships is not easy.

Sounds like OP is a teacher at a school. Schools very seldom have It departments, even in this day and age…

Fun fact: „Fön“ translates to hairdryer in German.

There is definitely still good stuff there. But you need to use common sense for sure

You can say that to just about anything. Every weapon system uses stuff that was not developed for this use case. Because so many things are involved there.

To be honest, using an actual threadmill has no actual benefits other than generating an interesting headline

There was too much lag!

I would have expected that you print a „Yes“ now.

You can also ask „What about the forced labor camps which produce the needed resources?“ it is still whataboutism.