Yeah, that is the choice I decided upon as well. Just don't buy NVIDIA. I will likely settle on Intel and AMD because they both have open source drivers.

No, it won't affect Local LLM use, but it will destroy the most offending usage which is corporate LLMs that power unsavory things, that has a knock on effect on the limiting the damage to open source.

LOL Good luck, seems like you have a task ahead of you!

Hmm..Yeah, OBS is something I haven't worked with firsthand so I have little knowledge on how to fix it personally. So I couldn't say either way. I might have seen it but breezed by it because immutable distros complicate matters a bit too much to make troubleshooting particularly easy.

Rap does tend to be dehumanizing in subject matter, you just have to find the rappers who are rapping about topics that matter. Like breaking cycles of oppression, cool shit, etc. Hard to find given what is boosted by the music industry at the moment. I think Orville Peck in terms of country is the best (only starting point) he is so fascinating in terms of a singer/songwriter.