Holy shit that's too much. Are you both particularly wealthy or upper class or something?
This is a new friend, and it's their sister not the friend in question. Also, college freshman are expected to not have much money to throw around.
Flowers, unfortunately, could be seen as a romance thing. Most Americans aren't super familiar with meanings of specific flowers.
Absolute most I'd do is $50, the card with the handwritten note, and maybe the chocolate.
Is joke.
Or old 3D platformers that didn't disable collision on visual detail bits, so you could do skips or get out of bounds.
In high school a male teacher, who was also a coach for one of the female sports teams at the school, was caught cheating on his wife with an underaged student who was the babysitter to his kids and was on the sports team.
The school also gave leaving seniors a beer mug as a graduation gift/school memorabilia.
Having grown up, one of my friends who is a teacher says that the district as a whole offers absolutely abysmal pay compared to other districts in the area and is terribly mismanaged. Which is funny because it's still one of the highest testing districts in the state.
Sorry, I don't have anything off hand. I know there has been some stories by research groups about how it's measurably increasing security issues in codebases, but I don't have any links.
You might also want to ask in the pinned weekly thread on !techtakes@awful.systems as they seem to be more active than this comm. It's about making fun of all the "techbro takes" online, but I've seen people ask for similar help in the weekly thread and get assistance before.
Part of the problem is that most companies aren't publicly sharing failure stories for anything, let alone failures of the latest hype thing.
You might be able to find some stories on the more "greybeard" oriented tech news sites like the register as well.
Oh yeah, resolution will absolutely eat GPU power. I'm at 2k, but that's also what my monitors were made for. Not sure how good that would look on a 4k mon.
Might be worth trying to downscale and use reshade for extra antialiasing though, if you're up for tinkering with fiddly bullshit that might not help too much.
They'd probably be worried that I had gotten sucked into the interminable rat race, and wouldn't believe me when I said I had found a way to be comfortable with it. I used to have panic attacks about the idea of entering the normal workforce and ending up in a job situation like my father did. Love the man, but he prioritized "providing" for the family over being present, and burned himself out doing it. I can see the nuanced differences between that and my situation now, but I never would have back then.
They wouldn't believe that a relatively modest life could cost so damn much of what I take home. I make money that would make my 19yo head spin, and it's still not enough to be as comfortable as I would like.
They'd be furious that I let my strong friendships of the time slip for over a decade.
They'd be worried about my weight and how far my general health has tanked. Walking everywhere and doing manual labor jobs had made it easier than I realized to stay healthy back then.
They'd be confused that I'm a decade into a different romantic relationship. That might cause them to more carefully examine the one they were in at the time. I'm not sure if cutting it early would have been better for me though. I learned and grew by years in the span of a few months when that relationship was dying.
I think the functionality was added in the most recent update.
There's not significant usable quantum computer "hardware"/"power" in existence. It's still largely a theoretical thing (although we are getting much closer lately).
The most likely use for it while capacity is limited (assuming they secretly have enough to do anything with) would be for espionage: cracking many defacto standard encryption algorithms that are in use the world over.
On top of all that, Betteridge's law.
What games are you playing where it's showing its age? I'm using a 2070 super personally. With a variable refresh rate monitor I hardly notice slowdown unless it's below 30fps, or if it's spiking.
I also play old games. My recent ones (past year) have been Fallout New Vegas, Stardew Valley, Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs 2, Sonic Unleashed Recompiled, and Cyberpunk 2077.
Orbit of the eye would be around the eye, not directly in, as far as I know. As in a needle carefully administered "around" the edge of the eye and into the soft flesh "behind" it.
That's even worse, imo.
I'm astounded you'd think anyone would be dumb enough to believe that. This is just sad.