can you dismiss the hand once cast?

The Gith and Arcane Trickster variants are summoned outside of combat and are invisible. Making them usable immediately.

Useful to open a trapped chest (you need to hit the chest though, you can't just open it like you would expect). I need to try shoving someone with it also.

What damage does the throw action do?
Can I summon this, drop some weapons, and the nthrow them at enemies?

Would be cool if this worked as Telekinesis in DOS2, perhaps being auto-cast when not concentrating on other spells - and clicking on items to pick up.

used this to throw the imps off the nautilis killing them, so fun

The sources don't list races with this spell (like other spells' pages do)

I know high elf, high half-elf, and mephistopheles tiefling - can all take this spell. Does anyone know if any others can as well?

Somehow in our Multiplayer Session it said that Gale needs to have a Short rest before recasting the Spell.

This spell was already nerfed due to engine limitations, to now have it recharge on a short rest for casters and long rest on racial feels real bad. I understand the spell was abusable, but this is a bad fix without a longer duration.