You get hit hard enough with something with a raised design on it it will cut you. Someone with a ring on will leave an impression in your forehead.

Because he was hit with it hard enough to make the mark, but his eye socket didn’t allow it to hit him all the way so only part of it left a mark.

Just create aliases with words you’ll remember. Fart, Fart2, ect.

Probably not out of line for a house these days. You can borrow the down payment from your boomer parents if they take out a heloc on their house.

Payments are going to be a bitch at about $10k per month though with insurance and taxes lumped into escrow.

Anything made in the past 10-15 years still works great, I have a couple of really old thin clients that I bought for around $20 and dumped my pis when the prices were way up. One runs octoprint and the other one runs Lubuntu out in the garage so I can look up vehicle specs and other things while I’m out there. I have a fifth Gen Intel laptop that still works great. I have a desktop with a Ryzen 3000 series that works just fine both bought used for under $100. Raspberry pi is good for certain tasks, but using it for a desktop makes little sense. Even now I’m working this message on an Android phone that was around $100 with no issues.

CPU power hasn’t changed much, they’ve added more features over the years, but power hasn’t changed a lot, only Windows has gotten more bloated so you need more ram to run it.

You can also just buy a used laptop or business computer which is infinitely better and cheaper.

I suppose you could use targeted social media algorithms to target people within a certain area who are service workers who are more likely to see him. So they could theoretically manipulate people into better recognizing him.

I think that the gun and everything else were dumped and found and the cops are saying he had them on him when he didn’t. I think they know it’s him, but they didn’t use legal means to identify him (parallel construction). They might have used some kind of new way of tracking people that they don’t want to reveal to the public.

Fourth option, he’s taking the fall for a love interest.