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

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But it can be, with https://github.com/juanfont/headscale .

Apart from that: it is a service with a 3 user, 100 device free tier which supports many other self hosted endeavors.

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

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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.

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It’s not random, this post is literally linked to the other one. Didn’t you read the title? It might be an ad though, we might never know.

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Tailscale feels so fucking sketchy to me

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

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Feels like a rug pull waiting to happen tbh, but I also don’t like the idea of remote access to my network being ran through an organization that isn’t me

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Probably feels too good to be true lol. I don’t actively use it but have got it setup as an option just in case I ever need local access to my network and it’s something I’m not hosting. I also use Cloudflare tunnel though so can do the same thing with that. Either way, options are nice.

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

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Wireguard 100%

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Then Wireguard if you can bother setting it up. Tailscale is a commercial service primarily allowing you to traverse NAT and link remote devices together.

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Can someone post the link OP is talking about?

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