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This seems like the way forward for me.
Just so I understand properly. I set up one of my home machines as an exit node and all my traffic from my android goes through that home machine?
How do I connect my VPN to tailscale on the home machine? Its not mulvad unfortunately
Yep. I had it set up in a docker compose setup with tailscale and gluetun. There is actually decent documentation for this on gluetun docs i think.
Then your tailscale container exists via gluetun which connects to your VPN.
Edit: Found these
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/786512/how-to-enable-direct-connection-to-tailscales-exit-node-with-gluetun
https://lemmy.world/post/7281194
that exit node will essentially need to work as a router, connected to both the tailnet and whatever other VPN peer you are working with. you could also use something like a gluetun container as I think it works with a wide variety of popular VPN providers.
I'd say you install the VPN on the home machine, then when you turn on tailscale on your phone, the traffic should be Phone->home machine (exit node)->VPN