I’ve found garlic can go a long way when you’re cooking without onion, though it definitely depends on the recipe.

Check out Trilium Next! It’s under more active development after development on the original project stopped.

Governments aren’t fundamentally bad. Having a governing body along with laws and regulations is a good thing when done beneficently. For example, government is responsible for access to public education, libraries, banking, worker safety, and hospitals - all of which are objectively good things to have as a society. The problems usually occur when some individuals have more power/influence than others to choose what the government does, which is what’s happening in much of the world right now.