I… am an econometrician, programmer and hardcore gamer, rofl.

Yeah, watching this has been fucking insane.

I used to work for a major international logistics company, made the reports for C Suite.

I guarantee you people at my old firm were literally pulling out their hair when the de minimis exemption got annulled.

… anyway, as far as PC builds go?

Here’s the best possible bang for your buck, as far as I can tell:

Minisforum BD790i se, + RX 9070.

Put that, a 600W PSU, 32 gb sys ram, 1 or 2 TB SSD, and a big ole fan on top of the cpu, all inside an ITX lunchbox?

~$1500, and that’ll get you over 60 fps on nearly anything, at nearly any settings level, at 1440p. Most games you’ll be over 90 or 120fps.

Its more or less a Steam Machine on steroids.

… presuming you are running Linux, lol.