𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I am big into self-hosting and would be happy to run my own Headscale server (I have actually) but imo it’s not worth the effort.

    It can be done but it requires a lot of effort and consideration to ensure the relays and routing work for when your clients are in challenging NAT scenarios. And the user experience is not as good.

    Instead what I do is continue to use Tailscale but I use the Tailnet Lock feature to give signing authority to my own specified devices so any new devices must be signed off by one of those other devices.

    This effectively eliminates the last point of trust where you had to trust tailscale’s servers to manage authorization. The result is you don’t have to worry about trusting tailscale at all, the entire system is zero trust.

    The catch is if you lose those devices and the recovery keys you lose the ability to trust or add to your tailnet and your only real option is to delete all the devices and start fresh.

    They also have the option to send a recovery key to their servers when you enable Tailnet Lock so support can rescue you in that scenario, but I think if you are using this feature on the first place it’s because you don’t want to do that so I imagine most choose not to lol

    I linked to their blog post above because I think it explains the feature well. If you just want the docs they are here






  • The town I grew up in had no grocery stores, there was one small store a 20-min drive away that served all the surrounding towns. There was no work from home and if you had a job you had to have a car to get there.

    The population was too small and too spread out to support any public transit. They now have a bus that goes from the center of town to the previously-mentioned grocery store, once a week on Sunday at 7am and then back at noon.

    Still, getting to the center of town is quite the hike for many residents so I imagine for most a car is still essential.

    And before anyone mentions the “infrastructure” being built for cars: this town was founded before cars were a thing. It was built for horses.









  • I’ve been using Linux for a long time on various other systems but what caused me to finally ditch Windows completely on my daily driver was:

    A nonconsensual Windows Update which caused my bitlocker encryption to become corrupted and I lost everything on that disk.

    This unscheduled reformat combined with all the other shady practices on Windows lately cemented my choice.

    It’s been several months now and I couldn’t be happier!

    The quality of gaming on Linux has advanced an incredible amount in the last year or so since I’ve tried it. Most of my games will either run natively or require a few extra clicks to use proton in steam. A few outliers that aren’t on steam required Lutris.

    On average I find the performance in games is better on Linux, even for non-native games using proton/wine.

    Definitely would recommend giving it a shot if you are on the fence. Particularly if you’ve tried gaming in the past and were disappointed.