I actually work for a large university in the digital education department. We do have tools like this but I’m pretty sure it’s for python. It could probably be modified for other uses however. I’m a hardware guy or I’d know more about it. If you’re interested I could probably get some more info or get you in touch with the devs that created it. DM if you want some more details.

I’m assuming an upgrade is pretty painless. I guess know what I’m doing at work on Monday.

Ok I’m arguing for containers/VMs and granted I do this for a living… I’m a systems architect so I build VMs and containers pretty much all the time time at work… but having just one sorta beefy box at home that I can run lots of different things is the way to go. Plus I like to tinker with things so when I screw something up, I can get back to a known state so much easier.

Just having all these things sandboxed makes it SO much easier.

Not sure if this is related or not but on Linux when I have a machine on the same subnet as an advertised route that I have connected to Tailscale, I can’t access the local subnet at all. On Mac’s it’s fine, only Linux. I had to hunt down this little trick:

ip ro del table 52 <subnet>

There are other ways to solve it but I added this to the service that starts Tailscale.

You can read more about it here. https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/6231

Best thing I ever did with Tailscale was install pfsense and then Tailscale on that. I use it at work that way. I have three separate data centers (with three pfsense VMs) with advertised routes for the three separate subnets. When I install the client on one machine, I can access all three networks automatically. I did the same thing at home so I can also access that easily as well.

I think what you’re ultimately looking for is the exit node capability. Not sure if the phone can act as an exit node but pfsense definitely can. I have a VPS hosted in NY that I use to get around certain geographical restrictions. I set it as my exit node and it looks like I’m coming from there. The desktop clients can as well.

Here’s what I’d do if I were you. Install Tailscale on a machine in your house. Set it up to advertise routes based on whatever IPs you’re using in your home. In my case it’s 10.0.0.0/24. Now any device you install Tailscale on will be able to connect to that network. Another thing you can do is any machine that is connected to your Tailscale will have a 100.x.x.x address that you can connect to directly.

Hope this helps.

It’s just a matter of time before those are enshittified as well.

Edit: ok my bad… apparently you can side load different launchers. I may check one of those out then.

I gotta comment on the mid 70s thing and how great it is to hear that. I have also been into computers since the late 70s (well and early 80s) although I imagine I got started a little younger than you … like I was 8 and writing basic/ assembly on my various machines back in the day (TRS-80 Model III, Tandy CoCo 2, Coleco Adam, C64). So I’m only mid 50s and I thought I was the old guy around here :) But damn if you don’t give me hope that I can stay like this for many years to come.

This is like someone who doesn’t speak English, finds a dictionary, and then puts random words together hoping to sound like they speak English.

He is such a fucking moron.

This is just fucking simple and brilliant.

I just KNEW I would see this here. Thank you.

It would take at least two guys to fuck an ostrich. Maybe 3. Unless it was a sick ostrich.

I feel like I’m somewhere in the middle of these two.

This might be an unpopular opinion but…

Fuck Taylor Swift. I’m so tired of seeing her everywhere.

Except when it keeps burning down due to the ongoing wish and is no longer insurance.

Best I’ve done is 17052. This is a fun little time waster

They use a cone…

I don’t think he was a complete Karen and he brought up several good points. If Elon can remotely unlock a Tesla, then support should be about to abort the ride and stop the car. Problem is this was likely tier 1 support which is just customer issues like billing and what not. He needed like a tier 3 engineer at least. They sure as shit didn’t need him to do something on his phone.

Pretty sure it’s not changing out the whole case. Besides why would you do that? Plus there’s a pic of the case with a slot on the side the battery slides in and out of.

I mean a phone case with a removable battery? Yeah that’s cool. Already been done though … a very long time ago.

https://www.wired.com/2011/05/third-rail-case-adds-removable-battery-to-iphone/

But I don’t need a machine to take out the battery and replace it. It’s just something else to take up room on my nightstand and eventually break. I’d bet they somehow figure out a way to make it a subscription service too.

I like this moving to a new town analogy. I may use that in the future.