I loved Tailscale for about a year but am moving away from it because having multiple exit nodes with each redirecting traffic via commercial VPNs with DNS-based ad blocking and App Connectors grew way too complex.
I’m not saying you’re doing all this but if you do get to a point where you’re directing traffic to multiple countries Tailscale turns into nightmare to manage.
We’re supposed to think “he (the journalist) is so bad and evil he hacked into the secure platform” — not that that helps their case either.
When you have poor insulation then the colder it gets the higher you want to set your thermostat because the indoor temperature reading won’t be as accurate since your exterior walls are leaking.
Additionally, we like to open our doors when it’s warm enough outside but also sometimes when it’s freezing cold. Using inputs from the door sensors, outdoor temperature and indoor temperature I can automate fans and switching off heaters.
Love that all you random fucks assume I’m a moron, thanks for that. Can’t get enough of the dumbass hivemind logic on Lemmy.
I might be biased as a vegan, but what is sooooo fucking critical about having eggs that has people this worked up? I think even without being vegan I’d uh, I don’t know… not buy them??
I swear to God you can hear all the grease caked inside his body when he speaks. That wheezing, wandering, droning voice has had a few too many Big Macs.
My solution is to VPN everything out of country. Not a single packet exits without going through a double hop VPN, with both hops being outside the Fourteen Eyes.
On top of that I run an ad/tracking blocking DNS server that’s updated pretty frequently.
For the reason I explained:
Because my old, horrible apartment is poorly insulated I have everything automated based on indoor/outdoor temps.
I do exactly what you’re wanting with a smart thermostat integrated with Home Assistant. Because my old, horrible apartment is poorly insulated I have everything automated based on indoor/outdoor temps.
Regardless of what it’s being used for, sending data to low orbit rather than across fiber optic will always have more latency.
It’s faster? For me it’s a lot faster to hit the share sheet and send a URL than it is to screw around with a screenshot (which is also larger and takes longer to send when using a slow VPN).
Don’t forget the latency and QoS that’ll probably be done haphazardly limiting everyone to just a sliver of the total available bandwidth.
As a web developer it’s when people want me to code ridiculous things because they don’t know how to use files, their OS or their web browser.
Recently someone complained to me that they’d like a dropdown to be sorted a very specific way (rather than alphabetical) because it’s “too hard” to scroll through the undesired options. They don’t realize that by doing that you would no longer be able to correctly tab into the field then type the first few letters of the desired option.
Or another user who reported that emailing documents wasn’t working because he could no longer email them to himself through the website. He could’ve simply downloaded the document using another link (right next to the email sending link) but refused to do so because he doesn’t know how to handle the file after downloading.
People who take a screenshot instead of sending a link. I don’t want to see your crusty shitphone or Windows UI, thank you very much.
Or, as a web developer: users who take a screenshot of a problem but completely exclude the URL and/or any other identifier I’d need to actually find the relevant record(s) so I can hope to reproduce the problem and find its cause.
Office on macOS in general. Shit looks horrible, it doesn’t respect the OS it’s running on:
Happy I don’t need to swap .docx files anymore, I do everything in Numbers and Pages these days.
And on macOS people not understanding that just because all the windows of an application are closed it doesn’t mean it’s not running.
I actually love this design because there’s no need for a window to be there while playing music for example.
Back when I’d fix people’s Windows machines the first thing I usually did was run a standalone VNC server and put that shit on Ethernet. I don’t want to touch your nasty Cheetos keys.
IT deploying the shit hole GlobalProtect instead of a “real” macOS .mobileconfig that can run as an actual service and be on 24/7. Also IT not black holing IPv6 on the VPN (since they don’t want to support it) causing all the traffic to leak outside the tunnel.
…at a software development company.
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I’m just using WireGuard on a VPS with multiple interfaces. I’m still doing heavy ad/tracking blocking via DNS too.
As for App Connectors I’m working on a script (compiled program hopefully down the road) that can query a specific hostname using a specific interface (say, a US-only website using DNS over a US-based VPN) then create a virtual IP address that directs to that same IP using the correct tunnel.
My reasoning for the virtual IP address is that I don’t want to redirect every website on the host to the other tunnel—lots of servers have an array of websites on them.
What I found disappointing about Tailscale is I had to do a lot of “hacks” to make things work—DNS on each exit node had to match perfectly (despite using different exit tunnels)—then the shit would only work like 20% of the time. One day traffic for the US tunnel worked, the next day it was going out of the exit node. I also never got it working correctly in Docker so I was running multiple VPS servers.
If I remember correctly with App Connectors your client would query the App Connector for the domain, then it would return an IP address. The IP address would be set up to always go through the defined exit node. So if your DNS was off or you were accessing another website on the same server you were screwed. On top of that, it just didn’t work.