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.

Tap and hold.

I wish I could change the default actions - many don’t make sense to me.

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!

I’ve been using Newsblur for a few years now and it’s been great. It’s very configurable. They have a hosted version or you can run your own. https://www.newsblur.com/