I've been playing around Cloudflare Tunnel on my mini PC these past few days, and it's been brilliant. It doesn't matter where my box is connecting from (work or home), I can still access my all my servers (Cockpit, Incus, Kubernetes, ManageIQ etc) from via my public domain. No need to update any IP addresses or any network config, no need to punch holes thru a firewall, no need for any port forwarding.

Also switched from Hyprland to Wayfire and I'm loving it - it has a much better workflow for floating windows IMO, and who doesn't love a good 3D spinning cube?!

[–] absGeekNZ 4 points 10 months ago

Ah the 3d cube desktop, I remember showing people this around 2010, most were still stuck running WinXP.

The concept of virtual desktops and the visualizations that allows were mind blowing to them.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i've been tempted to use that too, though overtime i've come to suspect Cloudflare as much as I do any other big provider. I then considered using Tailscale, but in the end just DIY'd my own Wireguard bc my setup for it is very small (ie just me until I can convince my partner she might want to access music/movies away from home).

[–] Dave 2 points 10 months ago

I use Cloudflare only for external access, and have a local IP set for my domains for access within my network so Cloudflare is bypassed.

I have used tailscale on my phone, but it kills my battery when doing nothing. When my phone is running flat it would report 30-50% of the battery was used by tailscale, and I had barely used my phone that day.

So now I have some things set up with Cloudflare, and some internal only I can access with Tailscale by temporarily enabling it and doing the thing I want then disabling again.