Why you should mail your parents a Tailscale node

You can install Tailscale across a lot of platforms. One you may not have considered: the mailbox.

Or the stoop, the package locker, or wherever your friends and family get their packages. Tailscale can run on tiny devices, like a Raspberry Pi or Apple TV, that fit in small boxes. Once plugged in, a pre-loaded Tailscale device can help you troubleshoot devices back home, provide an exit node for VPN purposes, and give you an off-site backup location, among other neat tricks.

Some Tailscale fans have used remote Tailscale gadgets for even more important things, like helping and monitoring family members diagnosed with dementia, or connecting with parents living inside restrictive national firewalls.

If your parents (or aunt, or friends, or whomever) are good with installing Tailscale on their computers, you might get by with the software-only route of sharing devices, or inviting them as users. But most...

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