Nør for military communication. Just for public info

Jooks like a road toy for kids playing with matchbox cars

I need it for normal desktop use. Email, coding, browsing (no gaming)

Yes i would say 1000-1200euro tops for the budget with option to add more ram later. Would you think i3 is enough? I am not too familiar with the newer generations

+1 for Joplin. Works really great and has some good plugins if you need to extend it.

Blocking stack overflow and start coding in C

I always have two sim cards (one typically eSIM) active.

But that just won't solve their privacy issues. The apple eco system is not privacy friendly at all, so why act like it is and let people continue to do stupid thing when they want privacy?

Joplin is great an encrypts everything (if you want). You can host the synced notes yourself and you can install a web frontend if you're into such a thing. I use it on mobile, windows and Linux where it works great

Do you have link to molly?

If Cron is too hard for you (it is really easy so I don't really understand your problems) then check out runat instead. Simple and easy to use with all the features I would suspect you use in cron

I would go selfhosted and use a mai-in-a-box solution. Easy to setup, handles all the spam DNS settings etc and if you put it on an ip segment that is generally spammer-free, then you should have a fantastic solution (I habe used it myself for many years).