Anyone who can should backup their favorite channels with yt-dlp while you can. Don’t forget to embed the subtitles and metadata. I intend to put up torrents soon and others should as well. If you wish to support the original channel put document with links to patreon or whatever that creator uses.

I wouldn’t say forced. Most of them would pick the cheapest firm they can find in India that’ll open up more holes than they fix

Bootstrapping is definitely going to be an issue. There was news they are supposed to have federation working and released tomorrow. Right now there’s not even a client in the play store so I haven’t bothered with it.

Don’t fumble this loops. Now is the moment.

I get really tired of rebooting just for a single round. A full 2nd machine would be more convenient but that means another CPU, RAM, MB, PSU, SSD, case, wires and more desk space. Try at your own risk, warning there be dragons. I’m a Gentoo user with older AMD cards your milage may vary

If you have the hardware for it you can run windows in a VM with GPU passthrough to a 2nd GPU