Please get help in having a more positive lookout to life. Be it therapy, a new and (hopefully) fulfilling hobby, philosophy, anything. And, on the other side of the same problem: try getting rid of habits that make you unhappy. Otherwise you are going to spiral downward.
It is fantasy but if you like hillarious and (in part) absurd stuff, read anything by Terry Pratchett. I personally would recommend starting with "Guards! Guards!". Be aware that there are over 30 books by him out there. There are multiple guides on which to read first to get the best start.
Most agree that it is not the best idea to start with the book he wrote first.
For smaller
smalle text snippets I use QR codes. I use Binary Eye on android, I'm sure there is an open source tool for Windows too.
For anything larger, I use syncthing.
In that case I´d need webspace or a home server, right? Up unto now I never had a real need for any of those things, so working my way into that matter would be more work. For anyone else in this community you may be right though.
It seems I looked too coarsly. It showed all the files to restore. Then it show the same files...but to delete. So I ran it again but cancelled as soon as it began deleting. Now I have a system that boots at leasr into tty and can try to restore /home with duplicacy from there.
Still the question remains why everything was set to be deleted after restoring.
I admit the ambiguity of cap I and lower l gets lost but the wording is exactly what id expect in one of his rants on last week tonight.