As another noob, Tailscale is great.

I’ve been playing with VPNs for a week or two, can’t get anything running. Then I remembered I have Tailscale installed on my Home Assistant and I opened it up on my phone and connected up

And now I can access my network at work, and can use WhatsApp when I’m connected to works WiFi even though it’s been blocked on their firewall.

I’ve just been listening to the Self Hosted podcast (who are sponsored by Tailscale) and learned that you can basically do networking with Tailscale by putting everything on the Tailnet. So now I’m going down that rabbit hole.

But I’ve run Home Assistant for years and used reverse proxies and Cloudflare to access it from outside my network, yet now I’m learning I can just have Tailscale on all the time on my phone and I’m on my own network wherever I am in the world, which is amazing considering I just put an add-on on my HA instance and scanned a QR code.