Comment on Introducing Steam Families
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 month agoOr just install Tailscale which makes it even easier and is free for like 3 computers.
Free for 100 devices! You can legit install it on every device virtual and physical device in your home and maybe run out of devices for the free plan. Right now I use it to secure the connection between my VPS proxy and my Minecraft server, as duct tape fixing some network fuckery, and as my primary means of connecting to services inside and outside of my LAN
1984@lemmy.today 1 month ago
That’s very generous of them. I thought it was just 3. :)
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I think it was initially 5 before they upped it to 100. They said they initially assumed they’d have tons of people using the subnet routing to share more than the limited number of devices, but found that wasn’t the case so they upped the free accounts
ouch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bait and switch. Stay tuned for enshittification.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Oh yeah I fully expect it at some point in the future. Right now their business model appears to be “get the nerds hooked on using it on their personal stuff to see how awesome it is to then sell enterprise licenses” and they’re in the “establish growth” phase so I think there’s a few years before enshitification begins.
There is a competitor called Netbird that does similar and is fully open source and self-hostable. I haven’t tried it yet but it looks good on (virtual) paper
ouch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thanks for the Netbird link, wasn’t aware of it.
If I’m not badly mistaken it’s also possible to self host Tailscale. For example:
github.com/juanfont/headscale
I haven’t tried either. Probably should at some point, but I haven’t really found a use case yet.