They likely won’t allow that forever. If Google has its way with the web, trusted browser environments will be a thing, and banks will only accept those.

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.

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.