Yeah I think the marketing speak for these mesh VPN solutions is confusing. But essentially it seems to me that for most people if they think of a feature they used to use with Tailscale, Netbird has it

Have a look at self hosted netbird on a VPS. Its free and has very little feature restrictions https://netbird.io/

Didn’t you just say its emotional? Then its subjective, and not totally within your control… there is no objective truth to “I am better than a vibrator”, its only your ability to match the preference of your partner.

Because JetBird explicitly changed that setting away from the default

I have seen 6 port minipcs like this one https://cwwkpc.com/products/mini-pc-firewall-c6 so number of ports is not an issue as long as you are prepared to pay for it. I think you’ll find more ports with similar keywords (industrial, firewall, fanless, etc).

My setup, which I think works well, is to have OPNsense on the miniPC as router/firewall, and separate WiFi APs. This setup has lasted me around 5 years now and will probably last as long as OPNsense and openWRT (for my APs) had decent support for my hardware. Well worth the money and effort in my opinion, and separating the router/firewall from the AP allows you much more flexibility.

This is the way

It does, except their execs are on LinkedIn sucking Trump’s cock on the regular

Why trying to avoid Netbird?

Goddamnit

FYI: for those who have been using archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph for paywall evasion and archiving articles for posterity.

Apparently the operator of this archiving service has been using the service for targeted harassment (both technical via DDOS, and social via doxxing) of someone. Wikipedia, which was also a heavy user of the service, has decided to move away from the service and is trying to plan out how to do so (it has been used for hundreds of thousands of references).

Posting mostly for awareness about the DDOS part… basically it means every time you visit the service your computer is used to send connection requests to the recipient of the harassment, slowing their computers to a crawl and making them unable to host content, effectively silencing them online. So, no one should click on or use any links from this service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-03-10/Technology_report

But you see they can sell this! Can’t sell “fallow fields”…

https://docs.cryptpad.org/en/admin_guide/index.html