Elisabeth initially studied at St John Berchmans College in Marollen, Brussels from September 2004 until August 2018.

Something is off here. Ok, apparently the St John Berchmans College is a secondary school, but still I guess it should say 2014. Surely she didn’t start school when three yeard old.

(Not opposing your original point, this just caught my eye.)

I do not think that is likely because as far as I know (please correct me if I’m wrong) these image generations are mostly done on servers which use the cheapest energy mix. But even if they use a ‘green’ server or run stable diffusion locally and power it by their rooftop solar, the energy for this picture would otherwise have gone to the grid and replaced some fossil energy source. One AI image takes approximately 3Wh of energy (enough to boil ~86 cups of tea). With a gas power plant this produces about 6mg of CO2. That doesn’t sound like a lot but it adds up. We really need to reduce emissons wherever we can and this would be an easy place to do so.

It would have been a funny joke without the picture, too. For me the unnecessary energy consumption of making a picture by AI is the more relevant criticism here.

Sir Samuel Vimes also isn’t disinclined to giving out knuckle sandwiches

It is still stupid, if it is incredibly inefficient and super wasteful of limited resources.

The standard Arduino platform is essentially C, just with some standard hardware-near procedures hidden away as far as I know. You can just write standard C code in two blocks: init and loop. Then the loop block will be repeated for ever. For controlling voltage pins you have easy commands similatlr to like pinState(PinNumber, on/off). I do not know about the others you mentioned, but there definetely is also some implementations for Raspberry Pi control by drag&drop. There is no need to limit yourself with those though.