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/

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/