Have you checked if there is any Obsidian plugin that can do the trick?

I do exactly the same. It’s not foolproof but it’s better than nothing. I remember, almost a decade ago, when I discovered that rm on mac didn’t accept flags as last arguments… I hope they changed that behavior

Some shells provide ways to prevent some commands to be added to the history

More than a decade ago I bought SUSE enterprise for a couple of years just to support the project. Never needed any assistance so I’m not sure about a different experience. BTW The box was nice 🤣

I’m not sure about the “audiobooks” part but you can use your browser from android to connect to calibre https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#over-the-air

BTW I used for many years Moon+ Reader to read aloud my ebook on android. Not quite as a real audiobook but good enough https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyersoft.moonreader

If you are able to see every recipe I’d rule out data corruption. If the issue arise only when try to create a new recipe (or editing an old one) the usual thing to check are permissions. Don’t zip but use some tools to maintain permissions (tar, rsync, etc) and try again