It was traditionally the case that resetting bios was simply pulling the battery because that was the only thing that held it in memory. This isn't a hack -
  - this is the official method of the older era which required power for persisted settings.
Even with Dell and the passwd jumper, that still required batteries to persist the settings up until relatively recently. We have a handful of Dell Optiplex 980s (circa 2010) which are now being decommissioned (after a particularly long and reliable service) and their CR2032 batteries are dying and they're losing settings if unplugged.

It can easily write a hello world or simple code but ask it anything complex and you'll get archaic methods or code that requires unmet non-default dependencies or just poor quality solutions that basically do not work.

I think we're years away from AI writing good quality code of any complexity. It's all pulled from public forums and it favours the popular option like python - try asking AI to do something in a more substantial in an obscure language and watch it quickly fail.

For novice level it is useful to explain code or general programming constructs but it's not a serious tool.

This may actually increase e-waste too. Need a different carrier? Red tape of contacting a carrier and switching or putting an esim activation onto a different handset. What's the alternative? Burner phones!

Drobo we're the high end option some years ago but since then they're not even something mentioned in the same sentence as Synology or QNAP.

I'm surprised they lasted this long.

With a growing move towards Edge computing, some of this cloud technology pace may slow down.
Also natural air cooling is sufficient for many modern servers now - water cooling may not always be needed.
Lastly some of this water could be recycled and provide heating for homes in district heating projects.

District heating is popular in a number of locations already - ones that spring to mind are Berlin, some parts of Austria and in Ireland (Amazon, Tallaght in Dublin)

Quick Assist is designed to be invoked with the user present. Many other solutions don't require being invited in.

MS has been (surprisingly) good regarding discouraging their remote software being used as a means of employers tracking users work or spying on them.

I would presume MS will introduce more functionality of some sort to this new solution and eventually charge for it.

A DIN socket can often be retrofitted to many cars giving plenty of choice of head unit.

For me it's more than that, I like the physical cd and the artwork and inlay card etc.
I also own a lot of vinyl. If your favourite music isn't mainstream, it's surprising how much is missing from the various streaming services. I have bought flac files directly from record labels before but it's rare enough to find. Plus all the unlicensed white label remixes and bootlegs. Most of that is pretty much irreplaceable with anything streaming.

Perhaps this is a plan to increase the profile of Intel's own Linux distro "Clear Linux".

GDPR for starters

Are the settings default differently depending on the region the browser is running in? Geolocation of ip for GDPR?

You can have multiple large screens connected to a VDI system - or even VDI hosted in the public cloud.

I think there will be some resistance to moving some desktop workloads into the cloud like this for self-hosting users and those with less typical requirements like legacy science or engineering hardware connectivity etc. but it may become defacto for basic "office pc" duties like word processing and spreadsheets etc.

Furthermore, many mobile devices can run multiple windows, connect to USB on-the-go/Bluetooth keyboards and HDMI out to large screens. The lines are certainly blurring between mobile device operating systems and traditional desktop OS. In fact you could even argue the old Symbian OS from Nokia was a better OS at multitasking than Android.

Dell and other manufacturers are struggling to cope because of a global shortage of Intel CPUs.

Windows 7 EOL is not helping. Plenty of places (government/healthcare/education) are just buying expensive extended support whilst they upgrade, so I guess that will offset a small bit.

The barrier for ReactOS as much as for Linux is software from vendors that they will only support on MS Windows. It may work but if you hit a problem and they won't help because of an unsupported platform, that can be scary for some organisations. Esp with legacy software and closed source so called "industry standard" stuff. The sea of change can be slow sadly.

For home users this is a different situation, they can find workarounds etc. Third party apps grow around annoyances etc. Enterprises are already paying a subscription model and using KMS for OS and Office etc. Different needs, different risks.

Group Policy is pretty much just an interface to registry settings. I'm sure most changes can still be made by amending the right keys. You could even push down those key changes with group policy on AD or use DSC or other methods like auto hotkey or a deployed powershell script running as system on a scheduled task etc.