I use a 1070ti and T500 without any issues with EndeavourOS, but I do recall having to install a bunch of packages to make the nvenc encoder detected.
I do not recall the packages… but I think there are some va-api packages specific to nvidia that aren’t installed by default; I’m not super confident on that tho.

It definitely is an interesting and there might be some merit to it. I’m just worried. Let’s say I post in lemmygrad for any reason and then comment something unrelated and neutral on a beehaw post. Will I be silenced because of that first instance’s bad reputation? Maybe I’m thinking too much.

nonono, It’s not that. I haven’t lurked there for very long, but it seemed that they were trigger-happy on bans from what I gathered. I don’t have examples at the moment and the modlog feature doesn’t seem to work well…