I had the same experience in Italy. Since they hear an accent they want to help out by switching to your language. This doesn’t help if you want to experience.

Wow, I pronounced it N-G-X. Don’t know why.

I use ghost and can totally recommend it. I installed it in 5 min. via docker compose in combination with mysql.

The fact that it is low on resources, has tons of features and easy code injection, makes it perfect. WordPress is bloated with to much nonsense. If you want to see a good ghost example: https://itsfoss.com/

PS only unnecessary are these stupid Twitter and Facebook integrations but they can be deactivated.

If OP uses docker, I would share my compose.yml if wanted.

Setting up Paperless-ngx and scan up all the papers (which now can be recycled).

That’s what I did with my last free days.

History is written by the winners. And they decide what was a crime and what was self defense.