There's no 75% tax rate and liberals means "right wing" here (including the current government)

A DVD is really 4.7 decimal GB, so a bit over 4.375 real GB. You should know that if you're going all nitpicky on sizes.

One oil change a year would be more realistic.

I believe it's Seagate that owns Samsung's HDD storage.
There's also Toshiba, only doing 3.5" drives I believe, under some arrangement I don't remember exactly. So "two and a half" makers.

I wanted to use it so I can have a shell and grep, less, tail etc. (nothing fancy just desktop use) but I was dismayed that the Windows 7 pro I had installed did not have it. I could have gone over and reinstalled a warez Windows enterprise or ultimate but I did not bother, and switched to full-time linux instead. Well done Microsoft.

At least if you do it you're pampered and it's safe, unless you act out (say run to one particular statue and piss on it, or grope a female soldier)

I wouldn't want to travel to Myanmar, Yemen or Erythrea. I don't know if these places are better for their inhabitants but I also don't know exactly what kind of shit I would be risking going there.
In comparison going to North Korea sounds like attending religious service as a gay atheist, or visiting a mosque.

Not sure how well BIOS emulation under UEFI is working, but if it does it should be very easy to run DOS. Requirements aren't big ; even USB storage can be used seamlessly if it was present as boot, as well as USB keyboard. To be on the safe side, use an USB stick, SD card, HDD or SSD that's less than 2 TiB. Using iPXE, you can even boot from an iSCSI volume and use that.
Have a motherboard with on-board COM and LPT (one COM or one LPT are exceedingly common, one COM + one LPT common enough, two COM + LPT may be found in some consumer hardware) : they're wired to a legacy bus, ISA compatible.

Doom 3 was modable but creating maps was too complex and time consuming. With AAA games you tend to need AAA artists doing an AAA amount of work to create levels that look remotely on the level of the original ones. In a decade the tools must have gotten much better but the issue remains.
So, they must have made some simplified map creation tool where you paste pre-configured, tweakable rooms together, fill them pseudo-randomly etc.

Try this from France : go to google.us or google.com, and you end up redirected to Google France anyway. So they don't want you to do unlocalized searches, or perhaps you have to dig deeper and learn syntax or go into "advanced research".
On duckduckgo they seem to have anticipated I wanted to do that and there's simply a clickable toggle!

"Only" $200 to double the RAM. So, for $825 you get a low end computer. It would be much better to get the 1.4GHz processor and 8GB RAM if you want it to be long lived.. But that's +$100 over the default. +$100 to get +4GB RAM : that's a lot of money for an upgrade. Welcome back to the 90s, when the OEMs pretended only their branded memory would work. But this time it's soldered, on a desktop computer.

What about a room with low power, silent, diskless linux workstations. Each with an Intel or AMD APU (such as 15 watt AMD Carrizo or next-gen Atom, both are SoC on a simplified motherboard). One cheap file server/master server with an SSD, a couple fanless switches. You go there and use the workstations / game stations rather than own, configure and operate your own. Seems the running costs would be rather low. You do need a fiber optics connection to the internet for competitive low latency and concurrent use of upload though.

I doubt you can play an FPS at top level with only a refresh rate of 60Hz. Back in early 00s you played CS at 85 or 100Hz and Quake 3 at 100 or 120Hz (regardless of whether you can hit those framerates consisently, the higher refresh still is useful)

Perhaps a 300 euro desktop will play CS:GO adequately (choose hardware adequately) but a 120Hz or 144Hz is another 300 euros. Back to double the cost of the laptop with Intel integrated graphics.

And it is also the case that a 5-6 year old machine can now be faster or better than a new, low end one.

I installed the Nuke Anything firefox extension specifically to (semi-manually) remove huge bars, though that may take a bit many clicks.

Remove execution permission for the Chrome executables and throw the icon into the garbage bin?