Many can be trivially opened using a screwdriver to push the latch back. Some can be slipped with a credit card or laminated ID.

It sounds like your employer is unusually diligent about it.

In an office environment, particularly one with a dress code, coveralls are an invisibility cloak that grants access to any wiring closet.

For conference rooms and such, suit, tie, and a laptop grant a weaker but often effective camouflage.

The heliocentric solar system, orbital mechanics...

We knew how to predict sunrise and the phase of the moon before we learned why they happen.

The 100W intern includes the inefficient energy conversion from renewable fuel. The GPU uses 200W after the conversion, so factor in power plant inefficiencies and transmission losses. The GPU may or may not be using renewable fuel.

Perhaps what we really need is to find a way to get human cells to produce chloroplasts so Intern 2.0 can be direct solar powered.

In addition, on the other end of the operation, GPUs add to the growing e-waste problem while interns are biodegradable.

We'll never find out. Tech magazines don't interview people living under a bridge fighting raccoons for food scraps behind the McDonalds...

It plays into the leisure class's lifelong dream of being able to jettison the unwashed masses and keep the money for themselves without having to resort to learning how to do things or (God forbid) doing things themselves.

Most of us "unwashed masses" understand that things that sound too good to be true probably are, but that's because we haven't grown up in a world where we give orders, shuffle a couple of decimal points, and then sign our names to take credit for the hard work of thousands of people.

The intern also likely burns a lot less resources.

This isn't at all about morals. This is about sovereignty.

We the People (and the people of other countries in their country) get to decide what is moral or immoral. What can be sold and what cannot. Where there may be questions, the courts decide.

This is not a question where we want the answers dictated by a corporation like Visa or Mastercard. Their job is to process the damned transaction and let the legislature and the courts decide what can be transacted.

This isn't like an individual shop owner deciding not to sell something. This is a giant multi-national deciding what millions of shop owners may or may not sell with no consent of the governed in sight.

Beyond that, they have no business knowing what I buy or sell. They need to stick to how much, who gets the money, and who gets the bill. If they don't like that, they should fold up their tent and go home.

Fortunately, it looks like it isn't too hard to modify the Anker printers to use different hotends for people who want to keep their printer going a while longer.

None of MacOS, Linux, or *BSD have that problem. Just Windows.

Of course, banks have well defined liabilities, extensive regulations, and mandatory insurance. Cloud providers have shrugs and dumb looks.

Based on cost research I have done, cloud tends to the high end of expenses once you factor in all the real costs that the cloud pushers leave out (like storage bills, backups, still needing people to maintain the services).

Very much this.

The whole cutting sigils into your skill and shedding blood into a "holy vessel" might have medical implications though.