But the replies are (mostly) not bots, are they?

Care to elaborate?

The bulk of any text is comprised of the most common 500-1000 words, making up roughly 80% of the text. Words such as “the”, “do”, “that”, “live”, “she”, etc. You need to learn these and understand them without thinking to be able to read a book. Cognates don’t really help you here too much, German and especially French share little core vocabulary with English. Usually you won’t reach this level before B2.

That being said, I did manage to slowly read quite a dense book about futurism back when I was between B1 and B2 level of German (with a dictionary in the other hand). Also, reading a book but not understanding everything is completely fine and a good way to learn a language.

Some types of books are easier. Comics might be your best bet, children’s books are easy too but I wouldn’t be too motivated to read them.

Very few do. There’s your answer

If you can figure out Linux, you can definitely use KeepassXC…

Arch Linux

You can break anything quite easily on arch if you don’t know what you’re doing, including security.

For passwords, you can use the same KeepassXC database on multiple devices. It’s encrypted, and you can have the passphrase file locally on multiple devices, and the cloud provider cannot access it even by brute forcing. The database itself would not be reliant on the cloud service, you can easily switch between any provider (I currently use dropbox)