yes to the unnoticeably reliable part. during the covid shutdown I had to spend long periods of time away from my apartment (I decided to lock down with my fam

yes to the unnoticeably reliable part. during the covid shutdown I had to spend long periods of time away from my apartment (I decided to lock down with my family 3000km away from where I lived alone) I had only a small window of time to set up some kind of tunnel back to my apt/set up some kind of remote access. I just installed tailscale on an old mac mini, connected a dinky spare usb webcam, and started photobooth just as I had to leave to catch one of the few flights that hadn't been cancelled due to lockdowns and restrictions. It worked awesome. I could remote in, use the mac to access my backup hard drive, and watch the photobooth camera. The only thing I didn't forsee was the webcam was useless during the night cause I didn't leave a light on so photobooth would just show me a black screen. During the day though, the camera showed me my worldly possessions and helped me monitor my apartment so in case anything happened I could call the superintendant of my apartment. It worked really well, and worked for 3 months until the connection died. I only had 1 month left so I left it alone. 4 months after leaving my apartment, I went back and found out the mac mini suffered from hardware failure (would no longer power on), so the tailscale vpn worked and was more reliable/more solid than the hardware it was running on. After that experience, I am sold on tailscale. They're awesome.