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.

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.