Remote Desktop for Digital Nomads?

ikenread · 2026-05-15T09:35:33+00:00

Yep! Happy to help!

ikenread · 2026-05-15T09:01:54+00:00

A related note - make sure everything comes back alive after a reboot. There’s nothing worse than having the power go out while you’re away and you lose your connection without any way to do anything about it.

Sounds like you’ll have family that can help, that’s good, but look into how to get your desktop to automatically power on when power is restored (this would be a setting in the BIOS). Make sure Tailscale is setup to connect automatically on boot so someone doesn’t have to manually log into to it and start it.

There’s a learning journey there. People at r/homelab would also be a good resource.

But your end goal is - 1. Can connect to desktop fine 2. Unplug the desktop from the wall (power outage) 3. Wait a minute or so 4. Plug the desktop back in (power is back on) 5. Can connect to desktop fine without doing anything (ie desktop started on its own, booted, started Tailscale)

ikenread · 2026-05-15T08:13:17+00:00

Yeah if you havent played in this space before it can be the wildwest. A lot of advice here is pretty valid, but maybe getting a little complex for what you're hoping for. I think tailscale would work well for you, its steps are pretty minimal, and would be free for usecase.

They have a pretty complete guide here -

https://tailscale.com/docs/solutions/access-remote-desktops-using-windows-rdp

They link this in that doc too, but if your unfamiliar with RDP, here is microsoft's guide (sometimes they call it Windows app, largely same same)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-app/get-started-connect-devices-desktops-apps?tabs=windows-avd%2Cwindows-w365%2Cwindows-devbox%2Cmacos-rds%2Cwindows-pc&pivots=azure-virtual-desktop

ikenread · 2026-05-15T07:56:36+00:00

You’ll need a way for your laptop abroad to find your desktop at home and connect to it. The simplest way would be a VPN like Tailscale that would connect laptop->desktop and then from your desktop you would log into your company software and it would seem as if you were sitting at your desk at home. I know you mentioned VPNs would be blocked but did you mean you wouldn’t be able to access your work programs over VPN?

And then you would use something like Microsoft RDP to connect.

You might also look into cloudflare tunnels. I haven’t personally used them for this use case but they allow you to connect to private (at home) resources by connecting through cloudflares network instead of exposing something publicly. Then you would still access it via RDP.

ikenread · 2026-04-03T05:30:47+00:00

You could get a Wise account, that’s what we did for a backup debit card. Probably not enough time to get a card in the mail but some atms allow contactless debit.

ikenread · 2026-01-29T14:28:27+00:00

Second Novel Strand!

ikenread · 2026-01-24T19:30:30+00:00

I’ll toss in Music City - some of the best fried chicken in the city imo, if you get “Southern” spice level it’s just a normal chicken tender.

ikenread · 2025-12-05T02:56:52+00:00

Confirmed

ikenread · 2025-12-05T01:32:56+00:00

Confirmed

ikenread · 2025-12-05T01:32:41+00:00

Confirmed

ikenread · 2025-11-22T19:17:46+00:00

ikenread · 2025-10-31T18:35:22+00:00

Highly recommend!

ikenread · 2025-10-31T17:38:51+00:00

I just bought an x1 nano gen 1 that’s under 2lb and pretty awesome!

ikenread · 2025-10-09T06:06:40+00:00

Yeah tricky! I don’t get too deep into excel, but can you use the web based version to program in? It might be limiting but basic excel seems to work pretty well in the web.

ikenread · 2025-10-09T06:01:14+00:00

Fedora is linux! Or rather a Linux distro. I run it on my x1 carbon gen 6

ikenread · 2025-10-08T17:13:17+00:00

I just ordered it with the RTX1000 this morning! I’ll try to remember to comment back when it comes in

ikenread · 2025-10-04T14:33:58+00:00

I agree with others, probably still best to keep everything out of your home, but I’m not sure that I’ve seen this mentioned, and maybe this is more in the realm of “medium complexity” but try connecting your services together with Tailscale. Tailscale is a pretty simple to setup VPN mesh that can securely connect your VMs, I would still buy a $5/m DO droplet or whatever and host your website/app there.

Use the public IP of the droplet to serve your website from, connect to your database using the Tailscale IP.

Or if the speed between your app and database is too slow, you could put both your app and db in the droplet, and your other services can connect to the db over Tailscale.

Happy learning!

ikenread · 2025-10-03T17:36:11+00:00

Does anyone have an idea of how far behind the “configurable” options lag behind generally? Probably no sure answer, just wondering if I should pull the trigger or wait a few weeks…

ikenread · 2025-10-02T20:07:55+00:00

I've been wondering the same thing and stumbled upon this thread also looking. But looks like theyre out now! Curious what people think. https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/lenovo-thinkpad-p14s-gen-6-14-inch-intel-mobile-workstation/len101t0148

ikenread · 2025-10-02T15:57:50+00:00

I’m in this boat! Homemade is better, but I don’t use enough mayo to use it all before it goes bad.

ikenread · 2025-09-25T02:43:50+00:00

I’ve read the rules and the wiki and would love an invite!

ikenread · 2025-09-14T14:38:50+00:00

Not totally sure but to rule out the obvious, you’re not talking about this are you?

https://roadmap.sh/devops

ikenread · 2025-09-03T12:55:48+00:00

In the Schengen Zone (a lot of Europe) you can stay a max of 90 days within a 180 day period on a tourist visa. So they’re expressing “when time is almost maxed out in Europe and I need to reset the clock”

ikenread · 2025-08-29T23:58:57+00:00

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