We are very aware of this. Unless and until the worker/pleb class can get its shit together and stop fighting a stupid culture war to focus on the class war, this is just gonna get worse.

wg-easy is fabulous! I use it too and I love it

Totally normal. Just keep throwing stupid amounts of money at it so it can find a way to undercut some existing business structure by operating at a loss until that business is dead and then enshittify. Profit! /s

I have this OWC Mercury Pro, which I purchased after going through several cheap ones from amazon that kept dying on me. So far it’s been great. I’ve been using it to rip my cd & dvd collection. FWIW I’m running Fedora 41 and it works great.

You can use joplin without any kind of sync and encrypt the notes. I believe the desktop app also now supports a pin lock on opening the app.