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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The way I understand it, there’s 2 use cases for a VPN, with different concerns and providers:

    • having access to your private home network from anywhere, through an encrypted tunnel (Tailscale, Wireguard on the router, etc)
    • having your outgoing traffic to the internet go through an anonymized exit node so that your ISP can not watch or sell what you are doing (ProtonVPN, Mullvad VPN, etc)

    Is Tailscale fit for the second? I thought not, as the exit node is not an anonymized VPN server but one of your own machines.



  • I agree!

    I think that we will keep having a mixup of “Buy European”, “Boycott US” and “Privacy” because of the typical overlap of reasons why consumers change their behavior. I really like the visualisations that acknowledge this difference and indicate which alternatives satisfy which reasons for wanting to switch away from American providers.














  • Steam Deck and Linux desktop user here.

    I wouldn’t prioritize a native Linux binary if I were you. For some of my games that have a native Linux version, I still run the Proton compatibility version instead because it runs better. Proton is insanely well-optimized and adapted to Linux desktops, your own code will have a hard time competing with that.

    Just make sure to pick an engine / tech stack that works well with Proton and find one or more testers who run SteamOS or another Linux distribution.