With off the shelf options, preferring FOSS if possible, I still enjoy using and contributing to open source.

Some of the substitutions wound up being a step down in features, or required rethinking parts of workflows, but the time savings is such a benefit.

Custom notetaking tool with p2p sync-> Google keep

Custom batteries included Linux distro for SD protection, Kiosk browsers, offline docs, creative commons content packs -> a few scripts built into my control server on vanilla RasPi OS

Rsync-> Borg -> Kopia(to avoid fussing with Borg's community NAS package)