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.

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

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.

Every day. Removing them is ridiculous and pointless.

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

NewsBlur is great.

TMHI has been pretty great for me for a little over a year now. Only one outage because of a big power outage.