With Tailscale you can easily use a Pi-Hole from wherever you are., as long as Tailscale is connected. It’s easier than travelling with a Pi-Hole and setting it up wherever you are. I’m using it now, on my laptop. The pi-hole is in Switzerland but my laptop is in Switzerland.
The advantage of Tailscale is that it allows you to use self-hosted cloud services while you travel. It allows you to backup your photos, videos and other material to the self-hosted web but it also allows you to use services that you would not be able to use. I can use Audiobookshelf too, although for this service I have it available via No-Ip.
If we’re shifting to a culture of mobile phones and tablets then self-hosting become more relevant, because with self-hosting solutions we have functionalities that were in an app on a laptop or desktop now being available on a server via a web interface.
I can block adverts on my devices without getting in the way of people using their own devices. If you’re shopping for devices if you click on Google Recommendations at the top of a page you get an error with Pi-Holes. This doesn’t bother me but others may say that “the web is broken”.
More experiments to come. My Pi-Hole has been up for 49 days. I just updated it while writing this blog post.
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