It's largely not worth freaking out over, in the sense that they are ubiquitous enough that it's impossible to meaningfully avoid. By all means reduce your exposure if you can do so without great inconvenience, but we are all collectively inundated with the stuff and just have to wait for science to figure out what effects (if any) it will have. "Only worry about what you can control" and all that.
Double check whether your motherboard supports PCIe 4.0. The 2080ti was 3.0 so there is potential to be bottlenecked by your motherboard here.
edit: though the bottleneck potential due to PCI express bandwidth is not very high atm.
A weird and wonderful part of the human experience is that we don't really get to choose what we like, we can only try to categorize what we experience.
I think you should follow your heart and to hell with anyone who would judge you for it.
Hobbyist myself so no worries! Git is one example of source control / version control software. You normally have your local working copy of a repository and then a remote where you push your changes when they are finished or to share them with others.
What makes you think a server was involved here? It was a local repository, evidenced by the reporter's bewilderment that files can be deleted without going to the Recycle Bin first. Which tells us that in addition to VCS, they were unfamiliar with Windows as well.
That's definitely fair, creating a repository in a non-empty directory could definitely suggest auto-committing the current state if it doesn't already. I don't use VSCode so I wouldn't know.
Although now that I think about it, that could have been the intention here but not automatic, if that's why 5k+ files were staged without the user explicitly staging them. Extra tragic if that's the case.
Not sure how you are getting that from it. This is a guy enjoying spicy food and nothing more