I did this. Was a ThinkPad Linuxer for years and now I just use an M1 for sysadmin/programming/web/vids. Quite happy to just use Linux on my servers these days. MacOS does the job nicely on laptop. I suppose it depends on how FOSS you want to be.

Just use a $5 USB-C to 3.5mm DAC?

I heard about it when it was mentioned on the Trillbilly podcast, about two years ago. Which is quite an obscure way to hear about a project by Tim and Eric. So, yes, it’s not too well known.

I clicked on the thread to mention this excellent Tim & Eric side project. Anyone who likes silliness and hasn’t seen it yet needs to crank up a torrent.

Isn’t it quite common to have /boot on an unencrypted partition?

Wow. I’ve been using dd for years and I’d consider myself on the more experienced end of the Linux user base. I’ll use cp from now on. Great link.

How would the update affect stuff like a GoCryptFS volume which I mount and use periodically but not all the time? Would those files be processed much faster than previously?

This is why I love having luks covering my entire system disk. If I want to upgrade the system with a new drive or move the drive to a different pc or sell it or dispose of it I just dd the first couple of gigs to obliterate the luks header.

It’s obviously essential to have a backup strategy, of course, but full disk encryption is the only way to go for me.

A centaur has four legs and a horse has four legs, so half a centaur and half a horse would have four legs.

Peter Cook did this joke with infinitely more panache about 30 years ago. Search YouTube for “Peter Cook Clive Anderson talks back”.

I use a Topping DX1 DAC with Fedora for sending sound to my soundbar. It’s great.

Yeah. I don’t know of an extension. I think you could create an extra Firefox profile and run two versions of Firefox (home and work) at once on the home PC. That might be a compromise that works?

Hmm. I wouldn’t risk it, personally. I bet the data that syncs can be quite specific. Have you looked for an extension that can just do tab syncing?

AntennaPod. The developers seem to have kept it to a very simple remit of just doing podcasts and doing it well.

The spherical cow and the ephemeral dog share the same father.

Ooh. I did not know about vscodium! I’ve removed vscode and installed it on my Mac. Thanks.

Some good answers here. Thanks.