If your bank doesn’t offer virtual credit cards (or they’re a pain to use) and you don’t want to sign up with another service, then yeah - PayPal is safer to give than your credit card number.

I have that laptop and I’ve gotten quite a few updates through fwupd.

It’s not slim. I was waiting for a slim version, like I usually do with PlayStation. Now I’m just writing off the PS5 entirely.

For anyone else interested: check out Tangara here! https://cooltech.zone/tangara/

I backed it and I’ve been following the development; it’s very exciting.

I felt the same, but I’m reading through this book and so far it’s been helpful for understanding and setting up system flakes: https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/

Fastmail is fantastic.

I get 500 Mbps on 5G home Internet on a bad night. I would still take fiber over 5G any day, but it can be much better than you’ve seen.

Many do. I use labels on Fastmail and it’s great!

I like https://ooh.directory/ - you can find sites you like by category, and it’s all oriented around RSS, so you know the feeds work and are up to date. You can even follow this site using RSS to see when they add new sites or categories!