This has been known for several years now yet it seems like nothing is ever done about it.

I’ve never gotten this to work with iOS devices for several years now. Yes, I’ve made sure that background app refresh is permitted, location services are on, etc.

I think the best way to do this is to find an ISP that offers VPS in the same network block(s) as their residential subscribers. I too am in the market for something like this and not sure where to look.

This is accurate but you don’t need a GL.iNet router to act as the VPN server at home, you just need any device that can act as the server at home.

I’m just using WireGuard on a VPS with multiple interfaces. I’m still doing heavy ad/tracking blocking via DNS too.

As for App Connectors I’m working on a script (compiled program hopefully down the road) that can query a specific hostname using a specific interface (say, a US-only website using DNS over a US-based VPN) then create a virtual IP address that directs to that same IP using the correct tunnel.

My reasoning for the virtual IP address is that I don’t want to redirect every website on the host to the other tunnel—lots of servers have an array of websites on them.

What I found disappointing about Tailscale is I had to do a lot of “hacks” to make things work—DNS on each exit node had to match perfectly (despite using different exit tunnels)—then the shit would only work like 20% of the time. One day traffic for the US tunnel worked, the next day it was going out of the exit node. I also never got it working correctly in Docker so I was running multiple VPS servers.

If I remember correctly with App Connectors your client would query the App Connector for the domain, then it would return an IP address. The IP address would be set up to always go through the defined exit node. So if your DNS was off or you were accessing another website on the same server you were screwed. On top of that, it just didn’t work.

I loved Tailscale for about a year but am moving away from it because having multiple exit nodes with each redirecting traffic via commercial VPNs with DNS-based ad blocking and App Connectors grew way too complex.

I’m not saying you’re doing all this but if you do get to a point where you’re directing traffic to multiple countries Tailscale turns into nightmare to manage.

It’s faster? For me it’s a lot faster to hit the share sheet and send a URL than it is to screw around with a screenshot (which is also larger and takes longer to send when using a slow VPN).

As a web developer it’s when people want me to code ridiculous things because they don’t know how to use files, their OS or their web browser.

Recently someone complained to me that they’d like a dropdown to be sorted a very specific way (rather than alphabetical) because it’s “too hard” to scroll through the undesired options. They don’t realize that by doing that you would no longer be able to correctly tab into the field then type the first few letters of the desired option.

Or another user who reported that emailing documents wasn’t working because he could no longer email them to himself through the website. He could’ve simply downloaded the document using another link (right next to the email sending link) but refused to do so because he doesn’t know how to handle the file after downloading.

People who take a screenshot instead of sending a link. I don’t want to see your crusty shitphone or Windows UI, thank you very much.

Or, as a web developer: users who take a screenshot of a problem but completely exclude the URL and/or any other identifier I’d need to actually find the relevant record(s) so I can hope to reproduce the problem and find its cause.

Office on macOS in general. Shit looks horrible, it doesn’t respect the OS it’s running on:

1. Command + click on the title of a window (document) doesn’t reveal it in Finder
2. Cannot rename an open document (what in the Windows 95 is this shit?)
3. The Open/Save dialogs are soooo huge and sloppy
4. The huge IE 6.0-style toolbars with tabs are fucking atrocious
5. Some updater bullshit that runs in the background all the time and doesn’t use the trusty traditional framework or the App Store

Happy I don’t need to swap .docx files anymore, I do everything in Numbers and Pages these days.

And on macOS people not understanding that just because all the windows of an application are closed it doesn’t mean it’s not running.

I actually love this design because there’s no need for a window to be there while playing music for example.

Back when I’d fix people’s Windows machines the first thing I usually did was run a standalone VNC server and put that shit on Ethernet. I don’t want to touch your nasty Cheetos keys.

IT deploying the shit hole GlobalProtect instead of a “real” macOS .mobileconfig that can run as an actual service and be on 24/7. Also IT not black holing IPv6 on the VPN (since they don’t want to support it) causing all the traffic to leak outside the tunnel.

…at a software development company.

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As for it feeling quicker due to it being a fresh install, don’t really expect it to slow down. Windows always slows down over time because its Registry is clogged, the code gets more bloated over time with updates, and the filesystem is kind of trash.

Linux generally stays quite nimble and quick in the long-term. It’s why you can take a decade old computer and still accomplish quite a bit on it with Linux.

This sounds like macOS (in a good way).

has dolby headphone

What does that mean?

Look I love GPL to death but I’m not going to pretend that every OS vendor on the planet needs to give away everything for free.

You can like two things at once, and in my case I love my walled garden, commercial OS for end-user stuff as well as Linux for networking gear and servers. I used desktop Linux for awhile but at the end of the day I like things like Airdrop, AirPlay and the seamlessness of it all.

Honestly, I like BSD operating systems more so than Linux ones despite the licensing arrangements. Linux is open as hell (obviously) but it’s super disorganized. I haven’t found a package manager I like as much as pkg (especially installing binary packages and compiled from source packages side by side with shared libraries).

Looking forward to being downvoted to hell for having a differing view of Linux than all the recent Windows converts.

I’m mostly used to it now. Though -r is supported in macOS’ rm command I still prefer -R and use it even on Linux where I believe -r is the preferred argument.

Actually that’s a good point that I’ve completely forgotten. Docker uses the modern macOS APIs for virtualization these days, and uses Rosetta2 for amd64 containers.

Edit: Damn you’ve got me excited about FreeBSD again. I’m a much bigger fan of FreeBSD on bare metal but do love Docker and related Linux goodness!