It’s no longer accessible from a desktop, only from the Google Maps app.

The router is set as a subnet router, that is how I am able to access other machines on my lan remotely.

I don’t want to, and sometimes can’t, install tailscale on every device I want remote access to.

So I may have duplicate routes- Does that explain the behaviour in my original post? And how would I go about avoiding that?

I could turn off subnet routing, and only turn it on when needed, but I’ll be putting up a bunch of other services that will want to talk to each other- I’m assuming this will break whenever I turn subnet routing on.

I kind of follow what you’re putting down.

I am not using an exit node. How do I go about splitting my routes?

What I want to achieve is ‘normal’ access for within the lan, as well as remote access over tailscale for things I cannot run tailscale on.

I have a commercial VPN, but I am not connected. What tinkering did you have to do?

I set up subnet advertisements by doing tailscale set --advertise-routes=192.168.1.0/24. I did not touch ACL.

The home PC is Windows, the context menu for the tray app give the option to ‘use tailscale subnets’ which is enabled- I assume this is the equivalent of accepting advertised routes.

From the home PC, tailscale ping 192.168.1.2 returns a pong, from the tailscale IP. tracert fails.

Who knows, maybe they used the same item for each definition.

I’m interested in why you chose the i5 for the automation, rather than the video server?

I’m no expert, but things like transcoding (or even just re-encoding) take a lot of grunt, which it seems the i5 would be good for.

The i3 would be good for more constant, lower power tasks like automation.

At least, that’s my thoughts, happy to be shown your reasoning…

They’re actually a pretty cool company- If you sent them an email clarifying their refund policy first, I’m sure they would refund you if it doesn’t do what you need it to.

Mint is not a version of windows.

I’m somewhat familiar with the tech used to display those boards, and I think the most efficient way to remove them would be to pass the image through an AI taught to scrub them out. And I understand how grossly inefficient that is.

The other option would be to get a ‘clean feed’ of the broadcast before the ads get overlaid- while technically this would be relatively easy, contractually it would be difficult, as the event host is paid to put ads in the broadcast. You’d essentially have to pay more than the advertisers do. This will still leave you with the ‘traditional’ ads, the physical signage and stuff written on the turf, etc.

You could potentially pay the stadium to have these removed, and if you bought the teams competing you could remove advertising from jerseys.

If enough people paid for a subscription, there’s the possibility of an ad-free sports league. I shudder to think of the price, though.

Yeah, control the means of production!

Yeah, I get you!

What I’ve done in the past is just buy a few charging boards with an integrated holder. USB/12v input, 3.3/5v regulated output. You can even get ones with solar. Then my circuitry can be independent of the power system.

I have one in theirs, they have one in mine.

Wait, ease of installation? As someone who had to walk away from a semi-homebrew, mildly complicated cloud storage setup recently, that’s not the experience I had. Networks within networks, networks next to networks not talking to each other, mapped volumes, even checking logs is made more complicated by containerising. Sure, I’m a noob, but that only reinforces my point.

I think you are giving an overly simplistic answer, to the point of being misleading.

Stating that you need a VPN for pirating is blatantly false. It’s perfectly possible to pirate without one. You can assume that people are asking if they should have one, but it is helpful to draw the distinction- including the why you believe they should use one. What does a VPN do, how is it helpful, what could happen if they don’t, etc.

Teach people, don’t just give them blind rules.

Is data on when I turn the oven on, and how long I run it for, even worthwhile? Or do you think it’s sniffing out other info from my network?

What I wouldn’t give for a modern N series. Those phones rocked.

Is Docker considered virtualisation?

Thanks. As bare metal is quite a bit more expensive, what would I lose by going to a VPS? I’m assuming Proxmox and Windows, assuming I wanted to go with a Linux VPS. Would there be issues with running Docker containers with the VPS?

Better take a year off, mate.