Newegg, Amazon, BestBuy. Every so often one or the other will come out with a great price on a component. I keep my ear to the ground on Slickdeals and /r/buildapcsales and cherry pick anything that sounds good.
I actually don’t mind the lyrics. Kitschy and seem to fit the music well.
Yep. If you have Android just use Joplin.
Not for free. You have to use Obsidian Sync (paid sub) for Android.
Just turn this option off in the Editor settings.
Obsidian does offer end to end encryption as well, but you need to pay for their Sync offering. They have a good deal on it right now but I don’t need encryption so I just use the basic icloud functionality which works pretty well on iPhone, iPad and Windows. https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Security+and+privacy
I use Windows on the desktop and iCloud works fine.
StandardNotes (I compared it to SimpleNote when I tested it months ago):
It calls itself FOSS but really, most of the important functionality is paid-only.
It’s completely local if you want, and you absolutely don’t need to pay money for syncing. The entire app is absolutely free and fully functional. If you want free syncing you can either use iCloud, or else the RemotelySave plugin with something like Syncthing or Duplicati.
It was time to ditch Evernote YEARS ago. Obsidian is basically the best alternative.
I actually had a lot of fun a couple years ago deploying PiHole on one of my RaspberryPi’s and routing all my household machines through it. It worked great UNTIL… my kid was turning in empty homework on Google Classroom and his teachers were getting up him about it. We chastised him thinking it was his fault until I finally discovered that Pihole was messing up his uploads to GC and literally causing this problem. I got super angry with it and walked away without even trying to troubleshoot. Had to profusely apologise not only to his teachers but to him.