I would just have Postgres running statically on some solid hardware. It’s easy to configure permissions and connections, too.

Not too hard to set up streaming replication for a hot standby if you wanna be sure (or offload some reads).

I use Postgres btw

Actually I just made up my own written language that happens to consist of 64 case-sensitive characters in one string. This is how I communicate

Those are security guards, not privacy guards…

I’m forced to use Windows at work and would quit if WSL2 wasn’t available. Windows is just for the Outlook/Teams ecosystem and occasional IDE, but I mostly work out of my WSL terminal.