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I did that

free VPS w/public IP, WG to my router. Works great!

Dynaco ST-70 stereo tube amp, probably from the 60s (no date on them that I can tell).

Very proud of it, got it for free at a garage sale. Replaced selenium rectifier with silicon diodes, a few new caps, and new tubes. Sounds great.

Credit cards, for instance, are not required but extremely useful. For instance, my recollection is that when booking hotels or rental cars with a debit card they will put a hold on your account for collateral. This could be a problem if you're living paycheck to paycheck. If you have a credit card, you may get a hold as well

but this is just reducing the amount of available credit. Functionally this is the same, if you have enough money, but if you're living on the edge and your rent money is in your checking account, this is pretty unfortunate in the case if a debit card.

Additionally, credit cards offer consumer protections, including chargebacks. My understanding is that debit charges are much more difficult to dispute.

And, in the US, for many people not in urban centers, owning a car is essential for life/work. Quick Google search claims, in relation to savings, "The median balance for American households is $5,300." So if your car bites the dust, buying a new (used) car may not be possible without a loan.

You're right though, it's certainly not literally required.

Given the effect it has on credit score, it will perhaps be more difficult to accumulate debt

it will be harder to take out large credit card, mortgage, or other loans. Probably not applicable to medical and whatnot.

In theory I think it makes sense: loans should be a privilege not a right, or something like that. But in reality, loans are essentially required for modern life, at least in the US. So the people who can least afford it end up with loans with ridiculous interest rates (even if the total loan amount is smaller than it would be pre-bankruptcy).

I am fortunate enough to be able to pay off my credit card every month, so the interest rate doesn't really matter. It's a great, but dystopian, example of positive feedback: those who can afford pay less (no interest), and those who can't afford pay more (interest).

Never used TailScale but I know it's WireGuard based. Does it do keepalive by default? I was having issues with VPS (WireGuard peer with static IP) not being able to ping my network (router as WireGuard peer with dynamic IP and no port forwards). Sounds like this isn't what's going on here but just in case...

Thanks! So, for local (not VPN) traffic I like to access the local IP for bandwidth reasons

would you then just set up SSL on both the local server and the VPS?

On my Mac running yabai it sometimes gets into this weird state where the mouse does this as it toggles rapidly back and forth between some windows. No idea what causes it...

On Linux I run i3 which kinda negates the need for the mouse finder since it will move the cursor to the active window.

I guess I didn't remotely answer you question though!

After setting up my own network, and trying to (kinda sorta) do it the right way (multiple SSIDs, vlan segregation, restrictive firewalls for iot, VPN to a VPS, etc.)

I have so much respect for network engineers. First month with my new router, felt like I "broke the Internet" every other day.

So in order to access from local network (useful for e.g. photo uploading as it is way faster) would you just handle SSL locally too? So, SSL on VPS+SSL on local server (with only one being used per client of course)?

Eh, I'm pretty sure South Park and Simpsons told me both candidates are the same so 🤷

There's still the down ballot implications here.

I think the down ballot ramifications could be significant: if MAGA-types stay home on election day, then they don't cast ballots for other causes.