Oh sorry, I’m late coming back to you but I went on summer holidays and have been enjoying the outdoors a lot =)

Using a VPN is a very safe way to do things. Tailscale is very well regarded in the homelab community and trusted. I personally prefer using raw wireguard myself, so no metadata or 3rd party metrics can be collected or sold, but Tailscale uses wireagurd under the hood so it’s very secure.