Yeah, it operates like a VPN. On my wife’s phone, I installed tailscale and set it as the “always on” VPN so that she never has to touch it. The same goes for computers. You can have it set as a startup app, and it should automatically connect every time.
On some devices, if you want to use another VPN, it can get complicated.
Tailscale only responds to the range of connections that it’s in charge of, so it doesn’t interfere with connecting to normal internet, etc.
I use Tailscale. It’s much simpler. Just install it on the host and client devices and everything is securely connected.
You may also be interested in Calibre Web Automated (which is similar but with more features)
There are some tweaks you can usually do on the server/host side as well. That’s particularly helpful if you use Thunderbird on multiple devices, such as desktop and phone.
Hopefully it will be even easier over time to sync settings between devices — I’d love to see filters and signatures across devices one day.
…And other signs that you may be in a cult.
Thanks, but I do not have an IT department. I am provided a computer for my use and at my discretion. I am essentially my own IT.
I am having trouble with Windows lately, and I believe that a new OS may help me be more productive, so it’s on me. I am not confident enough to eliminate Windows entirely in case it does not work out, hence the wish for dual-boot.
If you have a way to contact your friends, let them know where to meet you.😉
Thermidor > July ×10
This 90s retro fashion is getting out of hand.
Scary fact: food contamination laws allow manufacturers up to 1 floof in each food package 🙀
Why use a software that requires an involved workaround when there is software available that already does it?
Nothing against NextCloud, buy it’s not the only solution available, and people have different needs.
They have similar licences.
NextCloud server is AGPL 3.0
OpenCloud server is Apache 2.0
Not OP, but having files and folder structures accessible in the OS helps with a lot of tasks and interoperability.
If I want to add media files to Jellyfin, etc, I can’t just drop them into the video folder remotely because I have it mapped to a particular folder on the drive. If I want to make a copy of a large folder, I first have to mount the cloud as a “remote” drive, then do the operation from there.
It’s much easier to access files and folders outside of a database if they are needed for anything outside of the cloud service. I know that there may also be some security and efficiency factors that make a database favorable, but in terms of ease of use, it is just more effort to use a fileserver that operates through a database.
There are several apps and UIs that do this. Tesseract for one.
It’s just because they used novel punctuation — some people still type like this.
Depends on the bean.
I like to own the stuff I buy.
I don’t want to pay a corporation a monthly fee to access my own data.
I don’t want a corporation or government to have unlimited access to my stuff.
Having come from zero knowledge, to now self-hosting for over a year, I can tell you that you just search for them one at a time. Sometimes they will make sense. Sometimes not yet.
Stick around here, ask questions, and look things up.
And here I’ve been throwing away all my dead mosquitoes like a sucker.