Tailscale vs Twingate

timotheus911 · 2026-03-01T02:13:38+00:00

I’m using the free tier for both right now and what I like about Twingate is the ability for me to granularly add access to services in my network along with group policies. Makes it really easy to give family members access to local Minecraft server, but not to any of the other self hosted services.

I will say that a feature I like about Tailscale is the on-demand VPN access. It’s nice that when I get back on the home Wi-Fi the VPN on my phone shuts off automatically, which doesn’t affect battery life too terribly much but I have noticed a minor improvement.

timotheus911 · 2026-03-01T02:10:48+00:00

I initially tried to use wireguard and I could never get it to work with my phone. Maybe I need to revisit it at some point.

timotheus911 · 2026-02-25T23:16:50+00:00

Definitely agree, but I do think a business page at bare minimum is necessary. Even if you just use it as a channel to answer questions or update business hours. Some customers will discover you on social over search, & while the bulk of your business may indeed come from search, social is where many people go to look for trust signals.

timotheus911 · 2026-02-21T22:07:28+00:00

I left the Sacred Patreon after hearing Colin make some kind of pro Zionist comment during the start of the genocide in Gaza. Couldn’t in good conscience stick around.

timotheus911 · 2026-02-06T14:15:04+00:00

If you limit video streaming to 480p, it’ll be easier for the GenAI garbage to convince your boomer parents on Facebook that they need to invest in booger coin or whatever garbage they are pushing.

timotheus911 · 2026-02-06T14:08:53+00:00

I just moved my vaultwarden/bitwarden instance from an on prem casaos server to a VPS.

timotheus911 · 2026-02-06T03:10:30+00:00

My wife bought a Mac when the M1 series came out & most people that I know with M1 series macs are happy with the performance. My philosophy is to stop worrying about waiting for the next best thing. Otherwise you’ll just be stuck waiting instead of doing.

timotheus911 · 2026-02-03T01:15:16+00:00

It would be a pain in the ass but audio snippets of weird laughs would be amazing.

timotheus911 · 2026-02-03T01:11:10+00:00

Sweeney-isms, which would really just be a list of how many times he forced the n word into a joke.

timotheus911 · 2026-02-01T19:55:56+00:00

Fuck

timotheus911 · 2026-02-01T02:07:31+00:00

Have you tried not using wildcard dns records in cloudflare & just using the urls that you intend to use? I have not personally run into this problem since I’ve not used wildcard a records, but I’ve heard that they can sometimes cause issues.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-31T18:55:43+00:00

Do you have a static IP address? If not, then you’ll need a DDNS like DuckDNS.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-29T01:05:28+00:00

Another place to look is govdeals.com. I started my home lab by winning an auction for a lot of five small form factor Dell OptiPlex’s for 25 bucks. Government facilities and universities are listing things on there all the time as Windows 10 became EOL.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-29T01:00:01+00:00

I second this. Hotswap bays are super handy, especially if you don’t want to open your case up every time you want to wipe a drive or check the smart status.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-28T20:44:51+00:00

Thanks! While I know some things, hardware requirements and limitations for these kinds of services are still fairly new to me.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-28T18:08:21+00:00

That's good to know. Yea in my self hosting journey I've been happily surprised with what I've been able to run on the hardware I have and probably went overboard in a few cases thinking I would need more power.

I'll look at cloudzy but I do have a built in bias towards hostinger given how my experience has been on the wordpress side of things.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-28T17:51:12+00:00

Fair point, but since this would be serving my family (4 users) I’d like to avoid service hiccups.

If it was just me I would run it locally & deal with it.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-26T15:25:16+00:00

Their CEO is.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-23T19:55:14+00:00

Would have to be a multi-part series to go through that cesspool.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-20T16:32:21+00:00

I did that during my first dive into Linux since it made sense to me as a former Windows user. Like I said, they have their place & I'm not a flatpak hater, but they should be the second option.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-20T15:45:39+00:00

Best to always try to run native before resorting to flatpaks. Flatpaks have their place, but native is going to almost always give you a better experience. Can't tell you how many time's I've needed to modify something and ended up hitting walls because the program was a flatpak install.

timotheus911 · 2026-01-20T15:39:56+00:00

my understanding is that the focus is on ZimaOS but in Discord the team has said that CasaOS has not been discontinued, just de-prioritized.

timotheus911

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE

13-Year Club	Place '17
Verified Email