Mixed bag for me! I have a dentist appointment at noon today, I don't necessarily enjoy the dentist office like most others - but at the same time, I'd rather not have a cracked tooth either so... the dentist is the lesser of the two evils haha.
I've got a root canal upcoming too, which was originally supposed to happen today, but as far as I'm aware the plan was to push the root canal back for a different day and just deal with the cracked tooth today but we'll see.
Ah gotcha, I appreciate the info! I hope that someday a better solution for managing secure boot will work with immutable distros in the future then, so that you have a chance to give it a try (if you want to, of course).
I believe Universal Blue supports Secure Boot, since they specifically went to make it work for even Nvidia users - I'm assuming it works similarly for the non Nvidia variants or maybe just uses Fedora's default keys? I'm not too well versed in how SB works.
Then it also comes with Distrobox so you can just spin up an Arch container and use AUR apps through there.
Oh, interesting, you're correct there does appear to be one which looks to be $3 cheaper. I'll edit my comment to reflect that, thanks!
As far as I'm aware, none of the music services really have a direct transfer option available. You pretty much have to use a third party service to do so from what I found the last time I tried to do a major switch.
Funnily enough, I feel like this is one of those things that are present day "AI" could probably help with, if it were integrated with these services. Realistically you'd just need something to do some OCR of images from your playlists, and match the results - I'm kind of surprised that's not something Spotify, Google, etc have done yet.
~~It is not, unless they perhaps have a YT Music-only subscription but I haven't seen such.~~
Edit: It looks like there is a YT Music Only subscription available, for $3/mo cheaper. I'd still say if you use YouTube any more than just on one-off occasions, its still worth picking up regular YT Premium if you're grabbing the music one anyways, but at least the option is there.
I believe what they are saying is, they don't judge how other people spend their own money.
I'll preface this with I don't do any workstation-tasks that are being mentioned here, I can only speak from a regular desktop/slight gaming user but...
I'd agree with this take. I have an Nvidia 2080 right now, and at the start of the new month I'm looking to try to pickup a 6700XT (I have a low budget as well, so its about the best I can shoot for) because I've hit my limit with Nvidia's shitty Linux support. An X11 session feels like crap because the desktop itself doesn't even seem like it renders at 60 FPS (or rather, not consistently, but with a ton of framedrops) - and I only have two 1080p 60hz displays... should be easy for this card. A Wayland session feels "smooth", but is glitchy as hell due to a multitude of reasons. It is only just now (as of the 17th IIRC) when they've released their 545 beta driver that Night Light/Night Color is finally working on a Wayland session, because they lacked GAMMA_LUT support in their driver... But now XWayland apps feel even worse because of this problem. This is not going to be fixed until either Nvidia moves their driver to using implicit sync, which won't happen - or they actually manage to convince everyone to move over to supporting explicit sync, which requires the proposal being accepted into the standard (something that will take a while), and all compositors being updated to support it.
I am on the opposite side of OP, I don't do any sort of rendering/encoding but I spend a fair amount of time gaming. The XWayland issue in particular is basically the deal breaker since still most things use XWayland.
While I do hear that Nvidia is the choice for anything that needs NVENC or CUDA, using the desktop side of things will feel horrible if you go with an Nvidia card as your primary, and you'll constantly be trying to chase workarounds that only make it slightly better.
I'd really rather not spend money on a new GPU right now as a friend gave me his old 2080 that I'm using at the beginning of the year, specifically because money has been really tight for me - but when you try to use your PC (and I work from home, so that's a major factor) and you feel like you're constantly having to fight it every. single. day just to do the basics, well... enough is enough. I've heard some Nvidia users say that it works perfectly fine for them, and that's fantastic - but that has not been remotely close to my experience. It's just compromise after compromise after compromise. I hope that the NVK driver will change things for non-workstation workflows (since I don't imagine you'd be able to use NVENC/CUDA with NVK) but the driver isn't ready for production use as far as I understand.
At the very least, if you're able to keep both your AMD card as your primary, and just add in the Nvidia GPU then you can use Nvidia's PRIME offloading feature to run applications specifically on the Nvidia GPU. This has... its own fair share of problems from what I've heard, but the issues I've seen in passing have generally been on the gaming side, I'm not 100% sure how it does for things like NVENV/CUDA. Sadly for me, I don't believe my case/board actually has enough space for both GPUs to be in there, and even if it did, it certainly wouldn't have enough room with my extra PCI-E WiFi adapter in there - but that's a bridge to cross when I get there, I suppose.
I guess my conclusion for the OP is, how is your current desktop experience with your 1050TI? If it hasn't been a hindrance for you, then perhaps you're fine with your current plan - but as the Linux ecosystem starts to move more towards Wayland being the only realistic option to use, I do fear that Nvidia users are going to suffer a whole lot until Nvidia can finally get their act together... but I suspect there will be a massive lag time between the two.
Yeah if it's the comment chain that I think they're referring to, I believe it came down to Mozilla "being in bed with Google" because Google is the default search engine.
I'll take the default search engine being Google over things like affiliate links being hijacked, but maybe I'm crazy for taking that position.
Yep, my desktop PC may or may not have one of its SSDs not mounted...
If someone on server B were to boost that posts from server C, then yes they'd show up on server A as far as I know - but only if they're boosted. The federation aspect works a lot like Lemmy's, so while my instance my federates with lemmy.world (and vice versa), my instance doesn't know about the communities on LW unless someone on my instance subscribes to that community in particular (and vice-versa for a community on my instance not showing up on LW until someone over there subscribes). At least, that's how I understand it - to be honest I still don't have my head completely wrapped around Mastodon's federation aspect but since both Mastodon and Lemmy use ActivityPub I'd reckon that they're very similar.
Thank you, I hope you're able to get in soon and that it goes well for you too!