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The only time I've willingly used a banking app is when they lock out my VPN IP. In those cases the app still usually works for whatever reason. So far, I haven't found any functionality missing from the webapp, but I'm also dealing with brick and mortar institutions.

I would be concerned as they will eventually probably move to a phone app first ecosystem, however it will probably take a while. Some people are still only using in person and phone banking (where you call them and punch in numbers).

I would get a Thinkpad, either used or new, with that budget. Generally all the hardware will work out of the box, with the possible exception of the fingerprint reader if it exists. RAM and SSD should be replaceable, so if you purchase new just do the upgrade yourself to save some bucks.

The very brief summary: You need 7 perms on directories to write to them. So, 774, 770, or what have you for user/group perms.

Also going to rep purelymail here. Been with them a while and you can really have basically unlimited aliases with custom routing and everything.

I believe cocks.li is still open, so you could use them. You said in another reply that you're not savvy enough for your own domain, but if you change your mind, purelymail.com With your own domain, you can easily switch providers without losing access to your addresses.

That looks like a web hosting provider, not a VPS.

I've had a great experience with ovpn after Mullvad shut down port forwarding. You get 7 ports per account and the server I use is very fast. You can also purchase a public IPv4 with all ports open if you like.

Before ovpn I tried AirVPN. It's a great service, but their servers are too busy/slow if you need a lot of bandwidth.

To be fair, I like to use VSCode for resolving merge conflicts, because it is easy to see the deviations and apply/edit as needed. Still, I use the CLI for everything else, including commiting that merge. Plus the gh cli client when I'm using github as I can create a repo or push a repo with zero effort.

It is possible to resolve conflicts through any text editor, but not an amazing experience.

A VPN can offer some security for either. Any way, yiu depend on the provider to forward your traffic and not reveal who you are.

HDR works just fine in both, yeah. Obviously, avoid transcoding if you can. Shouldn't be a problem if everything is on your local network.

Tracking down all of these would be quite an undertaking. If you can find someone on PTP, KG, and CG that would probably speed. Some stuff might exist on DDL somewhere as well.