It is a natural consequence of tighter regulations.

Another option is virtualization.

Separate your sharing server from your remote access server, then have them each connect to a different VPN

This is how I do it.

I have several containers and a couple of VMs running on my one server. My router is also currently virtualized (OpnSense running in a Proxmox VM, works great) and it connects to tailscale and uses subnet routing to allow my LAN devices to be accessed from outside my home without putting them directly on the Internet.

Meanwhile, I have two more VPNs set up for two different sharing servers. All on one physical machine.

Tailscale can actually use a Mullvad exit point. I don’t know if you knew that …

TS works better for me than ZT. I started with ZT first, and had random access issues between my android phone, my VPS, and all my local devices.

The local devices could all ping each other’s Zerotier IP addresses, but the vps and phone had issues pinging them, but not each other.

Meanwhile, tailscale is working fine, and I’ve even set up subnet routing so I only need it on my phone, my VPS, and my OpnSense system.

With Zerotier, I couldn’t get routing to work at all.

Hell, I remember doing this in like 2005… Before smart phones were really a thing.

I’ll just wait until the fitgirl sale…

Uh.

I drove semi trucks in the US for years…

You’d better either double clutch or float those gears, because if you don’t, you’re destroying your clutch brake, which means you’ll have trouble getting it into gear from a dead stop. That applies for both upshifts and downshifts.

Ever sit next to an old truck or bus and hear them grinding gears to get into gear?

That’s due to the clutch brake failing to stop the flywheel.

All semi trucks in the US use synchro-less manual transmissions.

When shifting a syncro-less transmission, YOU are the synchro.

The clutch in these trucks has 2 positions. You either just barely engage the clutch enough to break contact, or you depress it fully to engage the clutch brake and (attempt to) stop the flywheel from spinning.

If you do the second one while shifting a moving vehicle, you’re causing undue wear and tear on the aforementioned clutch brake.

How, exactly, do you have Intel HD graphics, found on Intel APUs, on a Ryzen AMD system?

So punish those of us who do know how to make the cheap stuff work in a way we want, by removing the cheap stuff from the market, because other idiots don’t?

Yeah, solid idea.

Here, let me help.

https://ebay.us/m/3res0I

Less than 20 USD.

Like I said. Not willing to even try to look for something appropriate for your use case…

Did you even read the link? You don’t need it on every device. It’s not really that difficult to understand.

I AM A 48 YEAR OLD FORMER FUCKING TRUCK DRIVER FOR FUCKS SAKE, and yet, I still managed to set up tailscale on my phone and a computer, and then access my stuff that ISNT running tailscale in any way, shape or form, from my phone, simply because I decided to figure it the fuck out.

Stop being so damned lazy.

I am so fucking tired of this “cater to the lowest common denominator” bullshit.

It’s not elitism to say “If you want something done right, do it yourself.”

Elitism?

Dude. I am an almost 50 year old, former truck driver with no formal education on any of this shit, and yet, I managed to figure it out.

If you can’t, then that’s most assuredly a YOU problem.

SURELY you’re smarter than a truck driver?

Only if it’s made too hard for a new company or more options to emerge.

The ones who have hate in their hearts can now shows us all their true colors.

That’s a good thing in my eyes. Let them show us exactly who they are.

For #3, subnet routing.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets

I’m the only one in my family who accesses it on the web player, and the other ways still work fine.

I’m not breaking something for the other two users in my household because of my own convenience.

Access via IP address and not the name. I’ve been having to do it that way for several days now, too.

Edit to add: It’s due to a change I made in my OpnSense setup. I restored a ZFS snapshot and it’s working again as it should.

Again. That’s a lack of skill. Why is it my problem?

If they can’t be bothered to do 5 minutes of research before buying something, that’s on them.

Caveat emptor.

You can’t buy used on Amazon. I said used

The largest majority of people also can’t be bothered to do a single shred of research before buying something. How is that anyone else’s problem but theirs?

The best consumer protection comes from the consumer. Do a bit of research before you buy something.

If you can’t be bothered to take a few extra minutes to do that, then quite frankly, you deserve to be fucked by scammers.

It means you don’t know how to make it work. Last I checked, a used N100 all in one PC with dual Ethernet is cheaper than even most brand new consumer routers, and also sips watts.