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  • Force tailscale to route all traffic through the DERP servers?

    No no, sorry. I mean can I still have all my network traffic go through some VPN service (mine or a providers) while Tailscale is activated?

    So if I'm torrenting something, I don't have to turn off Tailscale on that device and switch on a VPN before I start the torrent process?

    I'm going to guess either "no" or "yes, on paper, it's possible."

  • your traffic is not routed through the Headscale server

    Damn, well is there a means of using both Headscale and routing your traffic somewhere else?

    My big reason for looking into Tailscale/Headscale is the ability to connect to my devices at home, at the office or a VPS that's in a different state/province and having the ability to use my PiHole as my DNS, but I would still like my network traffic to be (mostly, as an VPN doesn't save you from other tracking methods) protected.

  • To a first approximation, Tailscale/Headscale don’t route and traffic.

    Ah, well damn. Is there a way to achieve this while using Tailscale as well, or is that even recommended?

    Are younreally expecting 10gb/s speeds over your encrypted links?

    Eh, no. You have a good point there. I mean in a more perfect world that would be wonderful, but that's not the case.

  • but your traffic is not routed through their servers,

    Hmm so correct me if I'm wrong (I probably am), but with a basic Wireguard setup you'd have one device act as the server and other devices that connect to it are the clients. But can't you have 2 devices that act as servers/clients to each other, and then have other devices connect to them and the connect with bounce between those two devices?

    I'm assuming that if this is even achievable, it's not something Tailscale or Headscale will let you do.

  • $20 per month for 400mb of email + a VPN was an acceptable cost maybe in 1998, now it’s insanely expensive

    Yea I have a business plan with Proton. No idea why I upgraded but I remember doing it.

    And then you need to tell us why you’re using the VPN. Just privacy when using unsecured wifi? Or ISP tracking paranoia? Or torrenting?

    Yes, yes and yes lol. Also I would like to connect to devices privacy and see if I can make use of my PiHole when I'm not on my home network where the PiHole is located.

  • If you are not trusting Proton, you should not trust Tailscale as well, in my opinion.

    True, although I don't know if I say I don't trust them. It's more of a sense of skepticism that's always in the back of my mind when it comes to any service.

    Another question is that why are you paying $19 for that? They have $10-12 plans that come with 500 GB storage, emails with 3 custom domains and high-speed VPN.

    I have a business account with them. I'm trying to remember why I upgraded...

    Another question that pops in my mind is, why do you need a VPN? Do you need to connect to your services privately, or do you just need to change your IP for (relatively) better privacy?

    At this point, if I'm going to do be doing more self-hosting I'd want the ability to connect to services privately. The other thing is that with Tailscale I can set my PiHole as my DNS server. That way any device on the tailnet gets the ad blocking as well. Plus, if I can get unbound with DNS-over-HTTPS (via stubby) setup on it then I have a pretty secure and fairly private setup. That's kind of what's got me thinking about moving to Tailscale.

  • because these topics are de facto censored on most of the internet

    Complaining about capitalism, landlords and US Politics are censored on most of the internet? Have you been to Reddit or Twitter?

    Also aren't a bunch of other websites specifically dedicated for discussing specific topics? I.e. modding video games, agriculture/horticulture, etc?

    Are there like a bunch of bloggers complaining about living in the West that are being censored, or are they just not popular because they're terrible writers and have 0 reach?

    Also no one talks about Linux besides weird and niche communities. It's not censored either. I say this as a Linux user.

  • True! I should probably do that before delving too deep to where I start losing my sanity.

    EDIT: And ay, voila! It works! Played a little bit and so far I'm not too impressed by performance nor the game itself, but at least it works now.

  • Hate to jump in 4-5 days after you posting, but what are your Steam launch options?

    I see on ProtonDB a lot of people are having to fidget with some Vulkan settings, and I myself can't even get the game to launch as I get the "Graphics card does not meet minimum requirement" message when I have a RX 6700XT. Granted I'm not running the game through Steam and I'm trying to play via Lutris with wine-ge. If you're wondering how I'm "not running the game through Steam", let's just say the waves were rough last night and creating a lot of torrents.

    One thing I tried was editing the current build of Windows to be 11 and not 10, but that doesn't seem to work. Looking at the ProtonDB page, there's these following environment variables people here can try adding to their launch options (though don't add all of them):

     
        
    ENABLE_VKBASALT=1
    AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV
    PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NAVPI=1 # note the user who supplied this said they had to downgrade their NVIDIA drivers to 525.x
    VKD3D_CONFIG=force_compute_root_parameters_push_ubo # the user who supplied this said nothing worked for them
    DISABLE_LAYER_AMD_SWITCHABLE_GRAPHICS_1=1  VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.i686.json:/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json # if you have an AMD GPU
    DXVK_CONFIG_PATH=/home/niko/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Starfield/dxvk.conf
    
      

    EDIT: It seems like the following options get rid of the "minimum requirements" message, however now I get "your graphics drivers are out of date."

     
        
    # Launch options if you're running the game in Steam
    DXVK_ASYNC=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=1 AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json gamemoderun %command% --skip-launcher
     
      

    This is with wine-ge-proton8-14, don't know if GE-Proton8-14 would make a difference.

  • Interesting, thank you for your response!

    I don't know why I didn't think about the fact of having network specific ACLs is probably something we've developed since the dawn of the internet.

    Also it makes sense that the configurations would be hosted in one place, and I see what Headscale is for now.

    Maybe I'll dump my VPN provider for Tailscale or setup a Headscale instance on a VPS some day. I also saw Netbird, which their $8/month plan gives unlimited users. Seems slightly similar to Tailscale.

  • I think the cop should absolutely be fired prosecuted, but I don't think police shootings are to "justify the need" for police officers to keep their jobs.

    That doesn't even make sense: police officers involved in shootings are likely to be investigated by IA, which is compounded stress ontop of a job that probably already sucks, who's possibly even pushed out of the force by IA, and if the shooting an officer was involved in was in fact justified (not this one) you're left with an officer who's unfit mentally and will likely feel some guilt for the rest of their lives.

    In the world you think we live in, encouraging police shootings because it "justifies" a need for police leaves you with a bunch of underperforming and mentally unstable bunch of police officers and a forever staggering rate of total police officers and their presence in neighborhoods where they're actually needed; as people will resign and no new officers will replace them.

  • The car the lady was driven off in was like decent looking ~2020 model car. Maybe it happens the way you say it does, I don't know. I'd like to see data that shows if either how you what you say is true or not, but generally when I've personally witnessed shoplifting it's not done by people who seem like they're truly struggling.

  • Just the fact she has to shoplift probably also means she has very little money or is struggling to get buy on her sallery.

    As much as I don't think this woman should've been shot, shoplifting isn't usually done by people who "need/have" to and it's also usually items that aren't necessities. Ask anyone who works at an Ulta or makeup section of a department store. In fact, I watched a lady run out of an Ulta into a car that sped off who, according to employees, stole a bunch of perfume and they told me and my girlfriend they were likely going to resell the perfume online.

  • Hmm, I guess my question would be how does this all work? I mean, is it not possible to configure STUN/DERP services yourself? Or add control lists yourself?

    I'm curious as to how all of this is done, not just to see if it's possible (even if it'd be a headache) but for confirmation. Granted, networking is my worse subject when it comes to any related to computers. For ACLs, I guess Apparmor and/or SELinux profiles would be configured? The removing a key I can understand why it's be a nightmare yourself, but how does Tailscale do it where it's just so simple?

    EDIT: Another question I have is how does Tailscale work when I have a VPN for securing network traffic when browsing the internet etc.? Or is that just seamless?

  • I'm curious, what's the benefit of using Tailscale over setting up Wireguard yourself? Is it just not having to do all of the setup? Or do I misunderstand what the main use of Tailscale is?