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theturtletalkstoday at 5:05 PM5 repliesview on HN

Tailscale is truly a cheat code. I have a web app that I run locally to control terminals on my Mac. I access the website on my phone using the 100.xx IP address and can code on the go. No need for a Mac or iOS app.

You can also use Tailscale serve to get a HTTPS url like Cloudflared but it's only visible to your tailnet. Be careful using Cloudflare tunnels because they are public and bots start poking around immediately.


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0x1chtoday at 6:04 PM

Alternatively, Netbird has been a dream to use over the last half year or so. I think their server software has had some hiccups on new releases, but I stagger those updates anyways. All self hosted, similar concept to Tailscale, very good management UI baked into the self hosted product.

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SparkyMcUnicorntoday at 5:57 PM

> You can also use Tailscale serve to get a HTTPS url like Cloudflared but it's only visible to your tailnet

For public access, similar to these cloudflare tunnels, there's Tailscale Funnel.

https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-funnel

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girvotoday at 10:01 PM

I love TailScale but was getting crazy battery drain on my iPhone with it installed and setup. Still use it, just not from my phone now

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dlopes7today at 7:41 PM

I use tailscale on my steam deck to play stardew valley with my son on my laptop, it truly is amazing

_user_accounttoday at 6:47 PM

just use wireguard; tailscale is just the SSO enterprise overlay with a pricing tab.

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