I had heard of Tailscale, vaguely knew it was low-touch VPN, but I never bothered to look into it because I had Cloudflare tunnels and DNS/routing that I was satisfied with.

But that post here from a few days back got me to finally look into Tailscale.

And just - wow. I can’t believe how dead simple this is. No more messing with cloudflare cli for tunneling. Easiest user management I could ask for. AND I can 1-click designate exit nodes?? So I can watch xfinity stream on my apple tv outside my home now??

I fucking love Tailscale.

Someone out there surely can relate to my first paragraph. If you are that person - this is your sign to go look into Tailscale NOW

  • eve-collins@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I saw this guy’s post and didn’t get it. Can you help change my life too? My understanding of tailscale is it’s an ephemeral OS. You take out the usb from your computer and it’s all gone. What’s the deal with the VPN? Why can’t I just use a DigitalOceam instance with wireguard running on it?

    • bwell1211@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      You’re thinking of Tails, the operating system. Tailscale is something different.

  • I_EAT_THE_RICH@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Another random Tailscale praise post in a couple days!? I feel like this is advertising. It’s just WireGuard

    • fukuro-ni@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      it’s not just wireguard, it’s wireguard with a built in set of relays and methods to defeat CGNAT. if you don’t want to deal with tailscale the company, just use head scale and host the control plane yourself.

  • sowhatidoit@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Wireguard or Tailscale? I’ll be the only one ever to access my home network from outside my home.

    • TBT_TBT@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      And why would that be? They offer a generous free tier, because they earn their money with companies.