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Revisiting notes... again

I currently use Obsidian for my notes. It creates problems with my 32-bit laptop not being able to run it. Sure, a lot of other programs have the same issues but there's always someone out there who's compiled e.g. Joplin for Arm v7 (or, god forbid, I could do it myself) and Obsidian being closed source means only their devs can make that happen. What if there was something open-source, that worked on everything, that was free?

Potential options:

Store Obsidian files on Nextcloud or pCloud. This is, of course, not open-source, but the sync would be free. And it plays well with the open-source Logseq. I can access it as if it were local on my Mint machine, and rclone on my laptop. Really jacks up the iOS (mobile in general) situation though.
Use a similarly robust notes application like Joplin to store on Nextcloud Webdav and switch all operations to that. This is a possibility, but as much as I favor open-source, I'm all about a modern interface and Joplin is... close. Not quite there. But it's similarly cross-platform like Obsidian (so it works in the studio on my Mac), and it's a free way to sync for mobile apps. Not sure how Joplin handles media, I think that might've been one reason I wasn't using it in the first place. So maybe it's a great way to write for Gemini, but is it suitable for a second brain?
Admit that I'm never going to have something that works across the board and just cobble together something. I'd love to be able to access my second brain on the laptop, that might be where it's needed most, but it's a bear to deal with this stuff.