So it’s been a few weeks, largely because of other non-techy stuff that is going on in our lives. However, I thought I’d update on the old TrueNAS Scale server going on.

Firstly, I installed Tailscale. Paul Bunyan’s servers don’t allow incoming server requests, but with TailScale installed, it routes everything through that system. It’s free, which is good, and really easy to use. I’m sure that eventually it will change from free to cost, in which case I’ll look for other options.

But as you can see from the picture above, I was able to watch my animaniacs show through tailscale over my cell phone data. It worked really flawlessly, really happy with it!

If you’re wondering which cell phone plan, I have Mint Mobile, and I pay for the $15 a month plan, which has 5 gb of data. It’s a solid system, works pretty well 95% of the time, and since I own the phone, it’s a good system to have.

I’ve also attempted installing some custom docker containers to help with task management, like TimeTagger (to track time on specific tasks) and Grocy (to track our pantry and our chore list). It was a bit of a challenge to get them installed, but once I figured out the bash situation (TrueNas Scale doesn’t seem to need the additional escape $ that docker environs usually require), they work flawlessly.

On my to-do list with the server is to figure out how to get some security cameras up in here running locally.