read somewhere that a good gift is something the recipient needs, but would not buy for themselves. We don't know people "on computers" that intimately. You do

read somewhere that a good gift is something the recipient needs, but would not buy for themselves. We don't know people "on computers" that intimately. You don't know someone needs a shoe tree until you've entered their house and seen the scatter of boots on their porch. Of course we may just evolve culturally in this regard, and give more random, less utilitarian gifts to express ourselves. People generally like swarms of things, right?