I was gonna say it was full of the French, but this is a much better pun!

Hmm. Lofi enough solution. 😆

what are mesh von ips?

Oh, you mean e.g. always using the tailscale IP? Sure, I can do that. But it sure would be a pain since at home I use the .local domain very comfortably…

I know I wrote tailscale friendly, but the same applies to zerotier, Cloudflared, and dyndns, I guess…

Interesting. Thanks!

haven’t looked at Pangolin, but thanks for the info! I might explore it in the future if my current setup gives me any issues.

pretty cheap to get a domain name through Cloudflare too - nine bucks a year for a .com , I think? Just get something completely personal or completely random! :D They even have a way to get emails routed to your general inbox. It’s fugly, but it works!

huh. I knew there was a reason for me to go back to ZT. mdns, you say? Nice to know!

You got two options which I’ve tried -

1. A solution like tailscale or zerotier. Simple setup, easy to turn on and just go. Tailscale is newer and has a nicer interface and features like using an actual VPN like Mullvad as an “endpoint” (or whatever they call it). Their Mullvad connection also basically gives you a discount as they charge only $5 for the vpn instead of €5. The catch is that Mullvad charges you that price for 5 devices. So if a sixth device connects to the VPN through tailscale, you get charged $10 for that month.
2. A cloudflare tunnel with zero trust on top. More work to setup. But makes it easy to access your apps without any vpn. They’re basically exposed to the internet at that point, but locked in behind cloudflare’s authentication. You can literally set it up for one or two email IDs. Yours and a family member’s. Much simpler for others to wrap their heads around. But some people dislike cloudflare for some reason or the other.

How?

Same!!!

Bet he’s been having a very good work time though.

Are those the thick OptiPlexes?

Add Man Go.

Lovely to see you share this!

A very good example of this is birthdays on Facebook. When the birthday message posting started a few millennia ago, everyone took it very seriously - they would sit up at night and reply to each message. With each passing year, the number of messages increased - 20 to 50 to 70 or even 200, depending on how many “friends” you had on the evil site.

That’s when everyone realized that it’s just impossible and impractical and most important - unnecessary to have so many people posting on your “wall” to wish you birthday.

So the game became - you reply to the few folk you really care about - close friends and family. Everyone else got a like or a copy pasted “thanks”.

The hellsite even saw their “engagement” dip and built a product using the time of highly paid software engineers, product managers, SREs, and managers. What did the product do? It let you do a one click prepopulated “happy birthday person-I-met-once-at-a-party” message to their wall.

Of course people caught on to how disingenuous that was and just stopped replying to wall messages on that Satan’s Armpit.

Airlines are charged for every landing, docking, refuel, etc they do at every airport. So for the same flight from A to Z, it you stop at E, J, and T airports, the airline is shelling out money for each of those three pitstops.

That’s contributing to the cost of stopover flights.

Good idea!

Brands of what?

Not sure what my guy is on about. Water is now called Liquid Death where I’m at.