

I figured this was the reason, but didn’t want to assume. As user Ferk says below, you’re actually better off to have the tasks run before playing, rather than on start of playback. Since there’s no way for the system to know when that is, I don’t know how you’d automate that.
Unless you have noticed performance impacts during your regular workflow, I tend to agree with what you wrote:
I’m sure it doesn’t matter










Headscale is an open source implementation of the Tailscale control server.
https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
Not an endorsement as I haven’t used it (I do use Tailscale), but just thought I’d point it out.