Easier to handle and dump would be my guess.

In my state you can shoot, butcher, and then dispose of all of the waste (bones, skin, etc) from a deer directly into the trash. My first thought would have been, assuming you feel bones inside, that it’s from hunting.

Because I love my dog.

Exactly that. Run a docker container (probably privileged) that has your local volume mounted. Inside that docker container install cifs-utils and then connect to the SMB server from there via CLI.

Maybe use a docker container?

You mean a clock with an alarm feature?

Are you using Linux at work without systemd? Seems unlikely. All our 400+ nodes run RHEL and consequently systemd. This doesn’t seem to impact our researchers’ use of CUDA in the slightest when executing code on the nodes or in any kind of container.