Unless referring to encryption, can you expand on why NC with Dav isn't private? I've got both selfhosted (in home) and haven't picked up on any traffic sharing my calendar to third parties through my logs and alerts, so would like to know more of what you've seen to see if I have a gap in my automated alerts.
Edit: unless your answer was just in response to the OP wanting an already hosted system, then yeah I can understand what you mean there.
If in the US, check out privacy.com. It's a bank so expect the signup process to be as invasive as any other bank, but they allow you to create masked cards and you can fill in any name and address you want into the billing info to keep your real info away from websites. Paid version also hides transactions you make from your actual bank.
Yes, I did this with Kali so I could boot into the same install on several different devices. But I recommend it being a USB-C drive, otherwise the latency becomes obvious and frustrating. Also be sure the kernel you're using has support for all the devices you plan to use with it.
Ugh. I hate Twitter, but there are still a few stubborn accounts (that aren't on Mastodon) I follow via the app, Fritter. Fortunately nothing that's going to kill me, but rather just annoy me.
I'm currently in the boat of "what's next?". I'm on a rooted OnePlus 9 with a degoogled lineageos setup, and it's the final model I'll be getting from them as it sounds like 10 and beyond will be very hard to flash with custom roms and root. I'm impatiently waiting for Linux phones to take off but they keep falling behind the rest and I'm kind of skeptical if they'll ever actually become a "real choice" for a phone...
Amcrest is a good cheap brand. I use their 4K cameras, connected to a PoE switch, and disable internet access for them. What's nice is you can use their mobile app without needing an account. I use an internal VPN server to connect away from home to view them that way.
Jerboa errored on sending this, hopefully not a double post:
I'm not sure when the last time you tested it out is, but I'm seeing a few things online about kernel 5.14+ bringing in a lot more support for eGPU, albeit AMD and not Nvidia. I could definitely see how that'd be a deal breaker, but it looks like if it's not working with the newest kernels yet, maybe someone's working on it as we speak? Fingers crossed!
Like others have shared, proton and wine. The bottles app helps for games not in Steam. For example, I was able to play Diablo 4 with zero problems. Installed battle.net in bottles, installed Diablo 4, played the game. Epic games is more annoying but possible to setup, and once you set it up, games seem to run perfectly. Haven't had any fail yet. Also got Gog installed but haven't tested installing games yet. Basically I'm in the boat of: if a game cannot play on Linux at all, I just get a refund for it and wait until someone finds a way to get it to work... or proton updates to a version that helps. 9/10 times a fix eventually shows up and I can repurchase (sometimes at a cheaper price too!) and enjoy the game
Would those both work in a virtualbox or anything like that? Of they're the only things you require for a windows machine, and they won't work in any way through Linux and you do want to try and hop over, I imagine you might try a virtual Windows environment specifically for those two things. Since virtualbox is free for Windows too, maybe you can try it out to see if it does work before attempting the jump.
Your point about dual booting and then just getting stuck in Windows again is true. I remember when I first tried to move to Linux, the same thing happen to me. It wasn't until I tried Gentoo to help fully understand Linux at its core, that I finally got myself to move over lol. Most people recommend beginner-friendly distros, which are great for non technical or those who don't want to be too technical, but if you really want to understand how it all works and know how to do things on your own, I love recommending Gentoo personally. :D
Lmao almost got me there... But yes to the lowercase ones
For hardware: I haven't tried on a surface but actually avoided getting one for the problems I've heard with compatibility. I got a brand new Asus gaming laptop a couple years ago and had some driver issues in the first month or two, but those were taken care of in new kernel versions that came out... Now everything on it works flawlessly.
For software: I can only think of one instance that I couldn't get working... Chivalry 2. But that was a year ago, there's a solution out there to get it working now. Otherwise, 90% of the time, things that aren't normally built for Linux work when I run them through Bottles (uses wine/proton). The other 10% typically require some work, but nothing others haven't already resolved online for me to leech off for a quick easy solution. For games, protondb is an amazing resource.
Now I definitely feel the grim reaper watching me age, knowing that's only 7 years away lol. Still remember when the movie first came out.