I was doing some blacksmithing in high school, mostly knifes.

When reaching 800°C steel is not magnetic anymore, it’s also a good temperature to start forging the steel. So I needed a atrong magnet to know when the steel was hot enough, I used what I have available: a hard drive magnet.

It felt quite “mad-maxy” to disassemble a broken hard drive to use it as a tool to forge knifes

Tailscale is amazing, I work with a small company and we were battling with our IT contractor to have a VPN running for remote work.

After a while of things not working as it should I just set up tailscaled because I was using it with my home server and it just works.

We are now on a paid plan and everyone else is using it when working remotely.

I’m probably not the beat person to answer to you about the technical aspect and I’m not sure if I fully understand your question.

However I can tell you that there is no need to change anything at network level for tailscale to work.

I’ve installed and used tailscale on desktops, VM, raspberry, NAS or smartphone on plenty of different network, I’ve also remotely guided people to install tailscale on their machine at home and it always just worked. No issue at all and nothing to change on the network for it to work.

What I enjoy with tailscale is that the traffic goes directly from the host to the client.

Since there is no cloud relay I can connect to all my services via tailscale, even on local network and it’s not going to impact the speed.

This way I only have one setup that works the same way on local network or remotely but still have the local network speed when I am at home.

For remote access I would recommend using Tailscale or the self-hosted equivalent Headscale.

It’s extremely easy to set up and much more secure than opening ports.

Here is the instructions to install and setup Tailscale https://tailscale.com/download/

I’m running jellyseerr and jellyfin and it’s running well. I find that it’s less headaches than Plex.

Bitwarden offer the option to set up an emergency contact.

You choose someone to be an emergency contact, it means that if they want they can request access to view your passwords.

When they send a request you receive several emails to warn you and after X (you can choose the amount) days if you don’t do anything they get access to your account.

Bitwarden for me. My password manager is not just for me, it’s also a crucial component of my family life so if something happened to me I want my next of kin to be able to access it

For that it needs to be an easy to access solution.

I feel like your comment made a better job at selling the project than the whole post.

I read the post and I was thinking meh, bit after reading your comment I’m ready to install it to see if it can replace searXNG

I just it with protonVPN on Linux with no issue.

I don’t know about exit node on Tailscale because I don’t use it but the rest is working absolutely fine.

I’m using it for work.

At first it was just me, I needed a remote access and I was not a big fan of using the chrome remote desktop that was the “solution” by their IT technician.

So I’ve setup tailscale and used it to access the shared folders and Remote Desktop.

After that, with my boss approval, I’ve set it up for several others person in the company and external consultant. Honestly it’s great, it just work, it’s secure and it is so easy to set up. With just few WhatsApp messages I can give instructions to have the remote desktop running, even to people not especially comfortable with computers.

Bitwarden has an option called emergency contact.

The emergency contact can request access to see all the saved passwords. If I don’t deny the request then the request is automatically approved after X days.

I feel like this would cover most of the issues in the article.