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I've become fed up with a job I've had for a long time. I'm confused about what I even want to do because the changes and decisions that management keeps making has me burnt out at even the concept of my job.

I've known for well over a year that it is time to make a change, but that has gotten much more urgent recently. The problem is that it's really haste to leave a well paying job for another I doubt will pay as well.

Apple TV isn't compatible with some of the services that I use so h That isn't an option either.

Kodi is the open source alternative and it is a terrible experience compared to the purpose made sticks. It is confusing to use, and worse, very unreliable (my install would regularly completely break and crash on startup).

At least in BC is only came off the shelves at the government liquor stores you can still get American liquor at private stores.

The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.

I've been self hosting as much as I can for awhile. The one thing I don't have a good replacement solution for is Google TV. At least with alternate launchers and being able to install APKs (for now) it mostly works as a decent experience.

Dual booting is easy as long as you have a second drive or can shrink your Windows partition to provide space for your Linux install (this can be done within Windows). Your distro installer should have a couple options during install, one of which should allow you to install it on a specific partition without touching your Windows partition. After you select that option it should install everything including a bootloader like GRUB or systemdboot that will allow you to select Windows or Linux on startup.

A warning about dual booting though, Windows doesn't like to be installed alongside another OS, it may realize this and fuck with your bootloader resulting in a system that won't boot into your linux install. You need to boot up a live CD and do something called "chroot" into your sytem to reinstall your bootloader. Its not actually that difficult but can be a pain to figure out the first time. https://discovery.endeavouros.com/system-rescue/arch-chroot/2022/12/

I made the change about a year ago now. I saw the end of Windows 10 coming up and decided to install linux in a dual boot and try my best to use it exclusively for a couple months until I properly got used to it. You will need to accept that not every program you use on Windows will be available and you may have to try out a couple replacements before you find something that works for you. But most things have decent alternatives. Especially considering how much is done in a web browser these days, there aren't too many programs I really miss from Windows (mostly 3D CAD and RAW image processing).

Also, note that the differences between distros is way overblown when it comes to compatibility, it is mostly just a case of whether your package manager has the packages you want available and how bleeding edge the packages your distro uses are. Debian based distros (e.g. Ubuntu and Mint) tend to use slightly older packages than ones that are rolling release like Arch which should theoretically be a bit more stable.

I was holding onto Prime for the unlimited automatic photos backup (I had 300+ GB backed up) but I finally cancelled a few months ago. I've ordered a couple of times since then when I couldn't find what I needed elsewhere and instead of 2 days shipping is has consistently been 3 days delivery.

I'm saying that the reliability is high because nobody is using the 5G antennas on the towers since everyone is using the LTE ones.

Of course it is reliable, nobody with any sense should be paying the insane prices they are charging for it. All the discount carriers are still on LTE.

Agreed, that they are just an android tablet makes them far more useful than most ereaders as you can install apps from the Play store. I probably use mine in the kitchen more than as a reader.

Yup, also while prices may have gone up across the board the spread of prices seems to have reduced. At this point eating out is a bad value but I feel like spending $30 on a good meal gives me better value than a nearly $20 fast food meal.