I actually did this instead of tailscale first; installing tailscale on a pfsense router was a challenge, iirc i had to find and install the freebsd tailscale pkg from the command line because the plugin doesn’t give the option to connect to a non-tailscale control plane.

After I did that and connected to my headscale server (on my vps) I could ping pfsense’s local ip over the tailnet, but couldn’t get any traffic out from pfsense. Turns out I had forgotten the pfsense tailscale plugin automatically sets up outbound rules for you.

That was a rabbit hole I didn’t feeling like falling down, so I turned off headscale and just used tailscale account and the normal pfsense tailscale plugin. But it’s there and it does work fine if I ever wanted to go figure out the outbound traffic rules.

Headscale is the tailscale backend server

Yeah but they have a new system where you either pay annually for new updates, or the new “forever” license is something like $249.

Good to know, thanks. I haven’t tried anything else since the ~2 years I’ve started but who knows what the future holds. If unraid prices go any higher than they just increased to i may start looking at other options.

Just to add on since you mentioned unraid; i was a complete noob to self hosting and docker and unraid helped me learn the basics by dipping my toes in with their community apps store and then later with docker compose. Highly recommend if you’re just starting out and learning.

Imagine if E.T. had a cell phone

I have caddy on a vps that serves as a tailscale exit node and also reverse proxies over the tailnet. My pfsense router is also in the tailnet and exposes some subnet ip addresses to the tailnet. So for example I have public domain watch.example.com hits my caddy and gets proxied to internal IP 192.168.31.48 which is my jellyfin docker.

yes

My life is plastic; it’s fantastic.

For real tho anyone know a good guide to hosting an instance?

Not trying to hijack here but I’ve encountered this as well with a tv show called Gringolandia, I think it was on Netflix. Was a super funny show about 6 episodes long and I can’t find it anywhere.

I always put stuff in the same spot so I don’t have to look for it or think about where it is. Everything in my wallet has a place, everything in my pockets always goes in the same pockets, my work ID goes in the same place when not in use, my sunglasses have a spot on the counter at home, and on and on. Greatly simplifies things and reduces stress not having to think about where stuff is or might be.

Indeed. I have done so.

Seems like a cool idea but I feel like if you’re buying rack hardware you should be able/willing to buy a metal frame to house your stuff in.

I don’t know too much about snap (I literally haven’t had to touch my immich setup) but as far as I remember when I set it up that was snap’s whole thing - it maintains and updates itself with minimal administrative oversight.

I was in the same spot about 3 years ago and I started with Unraid. Got me into docker and dipping my toes into command line stuff.

Honestly though you’re going to quickly outgrow your old laptops…

I’ve had immich running in a VM as a snap distribution for almost a year now and the experience has been leaps and bounds easier than maintaining my own immich docker container. There have been so many breaking changes over the few years I’ve used it that it was just a headache. This snap version has been 100% hands off “it just works”.

https://snapcraft.io/immich-distribution

You can easily tell when a mathematician has written code because it’s typically hot garbage in terms of readability.

I feel personally attacked lol

I’m actually behind 3 routers and still hosting stuff to the internet. My house is behind cgnat, I have two isp routers, which both connect to a pfsense router (ip of which is in the dmz of each isp router).

My pfsense router and a free vps hosted at oracle are both connected via tailscale. Pfsense router advertises specific subnet addresses to the tailnet. VPS uses caddy to reverse proxy to those subnet addresses to expose them to the internet.

I was happy with tandoor for a while. Didn’t try any others.

However one problem remains for me; my household is bilingual. Any real recipe manager like this (for me) needs to easily convert ingredients/recipes between two languages.

Anyone know of any solution for this (aside from manually running every recipe output through a translator)?