There are still a handful of us from the TTT IRC around. I asked Tag for a copy of his archive during the pandemic and put it on S3 if there are any tracks you are looking for from the old days.
I had many years of old paper tax returns, and I wanted them in PDF format. Paid $400 for an Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1500 and absolutely love it. Put a stack of documents in the top, hit "scan", and a PDF appears on my computer. Zero hassle.
Anything that I get in paper form gets immediately scanned, backed up, and shredded.
The main difference is that if someone steals your debit card info and goes on a spending spree, that money is gone from your account until the fraud folks at your bank can deal with it.
This may result in overdrafts from other automatic payments or not being able to pay for things you need, until the money is restored to your account.
iTerm2 is great and George is absolutely responsive with any issue I've ever brought up. I am personally going to give him the benefit of the doubt here, I'm sure he'll fix things ASAP.
"Under the terms of the agreement, Symantec will receive approximately $950 million in upfront cash proceeds and approximately a 30 percent stake in the common stock equity of the DigiCert business at the closing of the transaction."
I'm not sure if things have changed since your experience, but the last time I exceeded the 180 days of inactivity, my credits were removed from the Skype client and a link appeared in their place, telling me to "reactivate" my credits on the website.
I went to the website and clicked a link and my credits showed in the Skype client again.
You don't have to install anything to do color switching, AFAIK. There are configuration options that you can use to match based on regexp, so you tell it when it sees '^root@hostname' it needs to change the background color and you are done.