Mihle

No matter the performance, 12GB VRAM should be the minimum you go for when buying a GPU, maybe except of you are buying very cheap/used. In my opinion the 4060 TI 8GB should not have existed.

May not fir your needs, but in the class I am currently doing, we have been using H2 memory database. Benefits it's it's simple, negative is that the data is lost when you restart it. Will try out another database later.

I was sceptical about getting a laptop with glossy screen, but the glare is much less distracting than I thought it would be.

I will do something else than what other people here are doing and mention newer stuff. Maybe less when it comes to influential and more to do with interesting. Even if it goes against what OP asked: Chiplet designs, both AMD and Intel. The 3D V cache that AMD is doing. Intel doing big little cores with cores that are cut down, while AMD on the server side instead just makes the normal cores smaller. Is all things I find very interesting.

I wouldn't personally upgrade if my PC was those specs. I would use it for quite a few more years first.

Yes, 1080p looks more pixelated, and therefore grainy than 1440p. It's has less pixels. I wouldn't personally call that an upgrade.

No, as one pixel on 1080 would be exactly 2x2 pixels on 4k, while on 1440p its not even close to a whole number of pixels, it would have decimals. I believe there would be one 1080p pixel per 1,333333....x1,33333... Pixel on 1440p. If my math is right.

If the 4k monitor and 1440p monitor is the same size, 1080p should look worse on the 1440p monitor than the 4k one, theoretically.

I have 4k monitor, 3072x1728, aka 80% look good to me in games. Change it in game and not in windows/drivers. More and more games have seperate display resolution and game/render resolution. Have display resolution at native resolution and change the render resolution. It looks better.

Things that help much more towards preventing climate change, and most of them we already have technology to do plenty more of than we are currently doing: Replace all gas and resistive heating with heat pumps. Increase insulation of buildings. Build and use more public transport. More electric cars and busses. Build more clean energy production, including nuclear power. Make items people buy last longer. Make people and companies keep what they have for longer. Make datacenters use spare heat for for example heating up nearby buildings. Repurpose materials more than we currently do. New server hardware do become more and more efficient over time already and it would be much harder to accelerate that.

You can just sew it on so it's fits you, but you can't adjust it anymore.

Be blind, save money!

I haven't had issues with it in 99%+ cases, and those that have, that is mostly installers, or old shitty programs. (MySQL Workbench for example) And I think those would have issues(blurry) on 150% scaling too. You can turn off scaling on individual programs, so that they specifically become 100% scaling for those.

If you don't play games, there is even more reason to go for higher resolution in my opinion. I use 125% on my 4k 32".

32" is a nice size for 4k. My personal opinion is that 1440p is too low resolution for that size. 1440p is maximum 27" for me. If we are talking about 16:9 monitors.