Apple TV's tvOS 17 brings VPN support, which Tailscale now supports.

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• beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Apple TV is quietly the best little streaming box. It is very capable, and according to my PiHole it’s far less chatty than my Roku or Android TV devices.

  Also, I love Tailscale. I love how this press release reads like it was written by nerds for nerds rather than by writers for investors.

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  • picnicolas@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have you managed to avoid ads on YouTube? Does it work well for streaming games from a PC?

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    • beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have a YouTube Premium family plan. We use it so much that it’s easy for us to justify.

      The Steam Link app is exceptional. the Apple TV natively supports Xbox and PlayStation controllers so it all works pretty seamlessly.

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• solberg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is just great! Tailscale is doing ALL the right things it seems. So happy to try this out

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• NENathaniel@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are there used for this outside of video streaming? Ive found Tailscale too slow for decent quality video streaming myself

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  • charizardcharz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can use one of your nodes as an exit node for another device and route your traffic though it as an alternative to a public VPN, depending on your needs.

    I use it for remote management, video streaming, and the occasional file transfer without publicly exposing my NAS. You could achive all this by setting up your own wireguard server but that’s more work.

    I’m surprised you’re finding it too slow for video streaming. I use it just fine and can saturate my 300 Mbit connection when doing file transfers.

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    • JoeHill@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wait. I can use my Apple TV as a VPN server? Did I understand you right? That would be a nifty redundancy tool for me if my main wireguard server goes down.

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  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yeah I’m not sure what the point of this is tbh.

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    • cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you run a media server that isn’t publicly exposed, it lets you jump in to browse stuff w/o needing to forward additional ports.

      Another use is if you want to bring the device with you on vacation. You can VPN back home and have your traffic exit out of your house which may be useful for streaming services that require traffic be “in the same household”.

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

  Fewer Letters	More Letters
  IP	Internet Protocol
  NAS	Network-Attached Storage
  VPN	Virtual Private Network

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• iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  VPN but do they allow useful apps?

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  • cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I deleted my last comment.

      I have an iPad but use android for phones.

      But I can’t imagine apple has any apps that need a VPN. Unless your using the VPN solely because you want all your data hidden.

      Vpns are kinda moot anyway in terms of person security. If anyone wants to see your shit they can install something on your telephone pole that can supercede a VPN anyway. Gangs use stuff like that. It’s fucked up but I’ve seen people use that shit to fuck up lives.

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