Damn, I’m looking around and don’t see any, even the cheapest Toyotas and Kias have a big touchscreen with Android and CarPlay. I’m not sure what happens if you take that out and replace it with an aftermarket receiver, but it appears to be possible because Crutchfield sells receivers for a 2024 Corolla: https://www.crutchfield.com/g_473950/Digital-Multimedia-Video-Receivers.html

I’m also seeing people online saying that there are cars made for businesses that still come with no “smart” features. But I have no clue how you would buy one of those, I doubt they have them at dealerships: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatcarshouldIbuy/comments/124n5qw/what_cars_less_than_5_years_old_are_recommended/

Or, you could just get a used car, save some money, and check all the low-tech boxes.

I don’t have a great answer to your question, but you might be able to find a relatively cheap car that isn’t “smart” and doesn’t have a touchscreen or anything. Do they make those anymore? Then, you could add an aftermarket stereo receiver to it, like some of the options in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1GdI9UsEI

Yes, that’s still a “smart” stereo but it’s NOT connected to any of the car manufacturer’s metrics or systems, right? So the separation makes it seem more privacy-friendly to me. I could be thinking about this incorrectly, but it seems logical to me. There might be some stereo receivers that are more private than others, but you’d have to do your own research for that.

Lol. It should also be no issue for you to find the comment and read their answer

I wouldn’t call it a clone, Tailscale didn’t invent mesh VPN’s. I believe Nebula is fully self hosted, while Tailscale makes initial connections through their servers. That means Nebula is more secure and private if you’re paranoid, but also harder to set up. They’re also based on different VPN protocols.

Tailscale actually published a surprisingly unbiased comparison: https://tailscale.com/compare/nebula

Oh yeah I think so. Honestly NextCloud is slow on any platform, so don’t be surprised if you’re not impressed. But it’s a neat project to set up.

Agree with others here. Ansible isn’t for beginners and neither is a Lemmy instance.

Try some other projects first, maybe some docker containers that involve a reverse proxy.

For example, NextCloud is a very useful thing to set up as a project, but I would say that you specifically need the new Pi 5 with plenty of RAM for that. The Pi 4 doesn’t handle a full NextCloud installation well.

Yeah I also installed putty a long time ago, I forget if it was actually necessary or if I was just afraid of command line back then.

You can SSH using command line. I do have a Windows Pro license, but I THINK that it’s not exclusive to Pro…

You’ve been out of the game for too long, friend. We have Lidarr now…among all the other tools mentioned here.