Ahhh i gotcha, so basically it forwards traffic through the pi so that you can send traffic through tailscale on devices that don’t support it? Sounds like a cool idea tbh

Good on ya for the tailscale/syncthing though, off-site backups are super important! If Jellyfin supported federation you could merge your library and your parents library and have it all accessible through each of your local instances. Maybe one day they’ll add it, i think it would be a killer feature.

Glad the write-up helped though, it should at least help you move towards single instances (at least for immich) since you can just backup on tailscale via the dns entry!

Glad to help, yes that is a perfect example of how you could use this to your benefit. Much easier to just tell people to enable VPN (tailscale) and navigate to an easy to remember URL.

I’m somewhere in the middle, I do cybersecurity professionally so i work a lot with technical stuff but my hobbies are much deeper in it so theres a lot of stuff i don’t know. But, thanks to these communities i was able to learn how to do a lot of things and have now levelled up into doing the research on my own and trying to give back :)

In your dream scenario, is that each family member would be hosting immich/jellyfin on their pi zero? Or is the pi zero somehow routing traffic for them back to your server for jellyfin and immich?

Happy to help!

Side note, if you want to make publicly available services, you could use cloudflare tunnels. They work in a similar way – letting your services be accessible over the Internet without needing to open ports. Some other people in the comments have mentioned that Tailscale funnel can also work for this, but i haven’t used it so I can’t really advise on that front

Just looked it up, seems to pretty cool. Does it only work with one service though? You proxy one port to your tailscale domain name, but does it do routing for additional ports at the same time?

I’ve only done surface level research into it, and honestly didn’t come across this when i was doing the research for NGINX Proxy Manager, but it seems a little limited in comparison.

Happy to be proven wrong though, any easy solution is a good solution :)

That does work great, but when I’m on mobile i find it a lot easier to just go straight to the service rather than using a dashboard (although i have one set up)

Interesting, i didn’t know that but that is definitely something worth looking into if you need it for your usecase:

https://tailscale.com/kb/1223/funnel

Personally, I use a cloudflare tunnel for that. I’ll probably end up checking out tailscale funnel at some point for fun though

To my understanding, yes! I touched on it in the post but since tailscale is a VPN that doesn’t require open ports to access other devices in the tailnet, you don’t need to worry about CGNAT

Same thing,

CNAME: * -> @

Which translates to: * -> example.org

* Is a wildcard DNS character, basically meaning any subdomain will get forwarded to the root domain

Where? All the keys in the screenshots are sample keys

First SS: its 01234456789abcdef repeated Second SS: it just says yourapikeyhere

Yes, that is the intention. I suppose I probably could have just edited it to read ‘example.org’. But, it’s the shorthand notation @ refers to your domain name.

So the A record @ -> [Tailscale IP]

which DNS translates to example.org -> [Tailscale IP]

🫡 just doing my part, when i set it up it was a lot of digging through documentation and videos (the information is there, but it definitely requires some commitment in the research lol). Wanted to make something that gives it all in one go & helps the community out :)

Honestly, this is probably the enhancement to my homelab which has yielded the greatest QoL improvement. Prior to this, I would have to remember port numbers for every service and every ip address that i have something running on (and as my lab has expanded, this has become a lot more challenging).

This is the most insane movie 💀

EDIT: dude was talking about plastic recycling, i misunderstood the context

Original comment:

🧢

50% of beer and soda cans are recycled

And,

“Aluminium is an infinitely recyclable material, and it takes up to 95 percent less energy to recycle it than to produce primary aluminium, which also limits emissions, including greenhouse gases. Today, about 75 percent of all aluminium produced in history, nearly a billion tons, is still in use.”

Why post blatantly false, easily invalidated information?

The two that stick out to me are:

• Gran Turismo

• Elvis

This is terrible advice, especially for someone moving from an rpi bruh

In what fucking world are you living

FM/AM, TV, etc have all been around for LONG before the 2020s

Fellow consultant?

Less cringe version:

So i don’t know what kit you have or what it came with but here’s everything I would use:

Equipment:

• Star San (make sure everything is sanitized, also don’t rinse this stuff out – “don’t fear the foam”)
• Airlock (and bung)
• Fermenter (I like big mouth bubblers, but your kit should have come with something)
• A spoon

Ingredients:

• Honey (I do 3lbs per gal)
• Water (I use store bought water, because I’m paranoid lol)
• If you’re using fresh fruit, pectic enzyme (this helps break down haze in the mead from the fruit)
• Fermaid-O (this is the nutrients)
• Wine Tanin (optional, for aging)
• Yeast (you can get some cheap yeast on Amazon – I used Red Star “Cote Des Blancs” for my strawberry mead, but your kit probably came with this)

Watch some YouTube videos to get a feel for the process. I enjoy City Stead Brewing, they have tons of recipes and helpful tips. Also, if you’re gonna bottle and stuff you’ll need wine bottles, a siphon and bottling wand, corks, and a corker. You can bottle in swing-top bottles, but I haven’t had good luck with those (apparently they’re not great for long term storage >.>)

Like i said though, for your first mead it’s probably best to KISS. I appreciate being able to get a feel for the process and then experimenting later on. I’ve only made two meads, but have made wine and a LOT of beer in the past – so if you have more questions just lmk!

👋 fellow homebrewer (do we have a homebrew community here yet?)

My advice: your first mead is probably gonna be more of a learning experience. Go to costco and buy a big bottle of honey (3lbs), mix it with a gallon of water, and some nutrients.

Most cost effective way to try it out without blowing a ton of money. My first mead was terrible, and i spent a ton of money on good local honey.

My second mead i spent even more on better honey and strawberries, to apply everything i learned. Came out amazing