Dream Machine running NextDNS and Tailscale on the device itself feels a little bit like living in the future. It finally feels like a culmination of promises

Dream Machine running NextDNS and Tailscale on the device itself feels a little bit like living in the future. It finally feels like a culmination of promises and desire, simplified into something that is just non-discrete enough to disappear. There is an ebb and flow to wanting all your components interchangeable, and then longing for an all-in-one. Having your router itself be a Tailscale exit node is slick. When something goes wrong, there are three panes of glass, but only one hardware device to investigate. https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/wiki/UnifiOS https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/wiki/UnifiOS https://github.com/SierraSoftworks/tailscale-udm https://github.com/SierraSoftworks/tailscale-udm https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes/ https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes/ The other home networking things I would throw in that people may find useful are: using MoCA to put access points in places that have an existing coax drop but running an ethernet line is impractical, you can have y and forked shaped networks without switches (although not the cheapest solution); and http://getchannels.com http://getchannels.com + an hdhomerun (tuner -> ethernet) plus a media server, nas, or nvidia shield. It's interesting how "feeling futuristic" is a single network device that does everything and an over the air tv antenna, but the shit actually "just works" finally.