I would highly recommend looking into Azure code signing. It is confusing to set up. But comes with instant reputation and ”only” costs 10$ a month.

EV certificates has always felt like an utter scam and extortion to me. At least now there is an alternative.

I’ve tried to convince all my friends to switch off Chrome for years. It’s an impossible battle. I don’t understand.

Some countries (Poland?) has experimented with banning advertising in public spaces. Think bill boards. This has lead to very clean and good looking cities. I don’t think the it’s unreasonable to ban ads in other places too.

Here is the thread that likely sparked his resignation (if this is a resignation), and more specifically Linus’ response to Hellwig’s earlier comments regarding rust and the Linux kernel.

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wgLbz1Bm8QhmJ4d...

(Edit to include the correct name)

Aisler is pretty good for prototyping. Wurth also supplies PCBs (with fantastic quality.)