There are a few decent options, all with some caveats:

• Seafile - wicked fast, but uses a funky disk format, so you need either a FUSE layer or the web UI/API to access anything
• OCIS/OpenCloud - default install uses a funky file format, but you can change this to POSIX if you want (experimental on OCIS, might be default now on OpenCloud?)
• others - probably work fine, but they get less blog attention

I’m playing with OCIS and I like it so far. There was some funkiness when I had things misconfigured, but now that it’s working, I like it.

It’s the easiest way to get stuff running, so I’m guessing that’s why. But it’s far from the best way.

I’m not sure how the weight is distributed, so maybe? Maybe it needs sandbags in the front?

Either way, it sounds workable as an around town truck, even in snow, without 4WD.

It usually comes down to privacy and independence from big tech, but there are a ton of other reasons you might want to do it. Here are some more:

• preservation - no longer have to care if Google kills another service
• cost - over time, Jellyfin could be cheaper than a Netflix sub
• speed - copying data on your network is faster than to the internet
• hobby - DIY is fun for a lot of people

For me, it’s a mix of several of reasons.

That’s a good way to always keep chips on hand.

Eh, you can be reasonably sure that GrapheneOS or other Android ROMs without any Google Play apps is private.

This plus those wearable battery things that recharge with movement could be super cool. Or just plug into a wheelchair battery or something.

Are you really going to take it into the woods with just two seats, mediocre suspension (likely, given the limited payload and towing), and limited range? Just get a Polaris side-by-side or something, they’re built for that.

I get it, a cheap truck is appealing, but at this price target, it’s going to make a lot of compromises. It should do fine in plowed roads (might need sandbags in the back though), so it’ll probably be fine for around town use, which seems to be its target.

Let’s look at a scenario where there’s an exploit that requires a change to an API. With JavaScript, the browser vendor can ship a fix to the API, and web devs update their code. With a plugin, the browser vendor ships a patch, then the plugin vendor needs to ship a patch, and then web devs need to update their code. Some plugin vendors will be slower than others, so the whole thing will see massive delays and end users are more likely to stick to insecure browser versions.

Plugin vendors are going to demand the same API surface as current web standards and perhaps more, so you’re not saving anything by using plugins, and you’re dramatically increasing the complexity of rolling out a fix.

I think the current web is a decent compromise. If you want your logic in something other than JavaScript, you have WebAssembly, but you don’t get access to nearly as many APIs and need to go through JavaScript. You can build your own abstraction in JavaScript however to hide that complexity from your users. The browser vendor retains the ability to fix things quickly, and devs get flexibility.

What do you need 4x4 in a truck this small for?

If the source is available somewhere, but it’s not in your distro’s repos, there’s probably a good reason for that. Ideally just get better hardware. A WiFi chip is usually something like $20-30 and is replaceable on most laptops and desktops. An audio card can be bypassed with USB or a PCIe add-in card. That’s pretty much everything this might apply to.

Yeah, the only thing I’ve pre-ordered in the last few years is my Steam Deck. I think it’s also generally a good idea to avoid gen 1 of pretty much everything.

Depends on the truck owner. It’s not going to haul a boat, but it can probably do lumber (though the bed is kinda short and narrow), gardening stuff, and camping gear. That’s basically what I’d want a truck for, plus the odd piece of furniture.

Here ya go, plenty of freedom units.

Same. We have two cars and three kids. One needs to be comfortable for longer trips, camping, etc, and the other just needs to go to work and back. This would be perfect for the second, and double as a furniture, garden stuff , dump, etc hauler around town.

I personally hate trucks, but this is in the price range and could be handy.

Really? This is the first place I’ve seen it. Then again, I use an ad blocker everywhere.

Yeah, what’s wrong with it? It looks like a simple truck for around town use, and it’s fairly cheap.

With VR, you kinda can.

The modularization was good.

The modularization was a security nightmare. These plugins needed elevated privileges, a d they all needed to handle security themselves, and as I hope you are aware, Flash was atrocious with security.

Having a single “plugin” system means you only need to keep that one system secure. That’s hard enough as it is, but it’s at least tractible. And modern browsers have done a pretty good job securing the javascript sandbox.

That was better back then, people had realistic expectations

I don’t think that’s true. I think there just weren’t as many attacks because there weren’t as many internet users. Yet I also remember getting viruses all the time (at least once/year) because of some vulnerability or another, and that’s with being careful.

You should take off those rose colored glasses.

I appreciate that people not knowing as much about security is problematic, but that’s because the average person is far more secure than they were even 10 years ago. Getting a virus is pretty rare these days, Microsoft has really stepped up their game with Wndows and browsers have as well. I haven’t worried about getting a virus for many years now, and that’s thanks to the proactive security work in sandboxing and whatnot that limits exploits.

A lot of the scams and whatnot these days either attack outdated systems (esp. insecure routers running default creds) or merely use social engineering because you can’t simply use an off-the-shelf flash exploit or something to get privilege escalation to install your malware. Attacks certainly exist, but they’re far less common than they were 10-20 years ago as people started being online constantly.

those plugins being disabled by default

Yes, I am annoyed at JavaScript being enabled constantly and not having fine-grained control over specific permissions (mostly just location, mic, camera, and storage).

Unfortunately, that ship has sailed. But I still very much prefer the modern “everything uses JavaScript” to the old insecure Flash and Java applets.

Doesn’t mean your eyeballs don’t have value.