Today I'm installing win7 era laptop with linux mint and kde. It has 4GB ram, so it's doing acceptably well.
It also has a ~500GB hd, so that's not bad either, except that I have a lot of stuff I randomly like to access.
I figured tailscale could help with that, so I installed it a few minutes back on the lappy.
The ~/Documents dir is empty. My main pc is named 'maria'. I named the laptop 'monica'. Thanks to tailscale, this line works fine @monica:
gemlog@monica:~$ sshfs -C gemlog@maria:/mnt/spare3 /home/gemlog/Documents
Boom!
~/Documents$ ls -d1 */
Arts/
Business/
Food/
Hardware/
Health/
Music/
Nature/
Network/
News-Information/
Pictures/
Politics/
Quotes/
Science/
Social/
Software/
Sustainable_Living/
ToDo_Ideas_ToRead/
Transportation/
Videos/
That's pretty darn handy! :-)
That dir tree is the same as my notebooks tree in Joplin. I've also installed and sync'd Joplin with my webdave. This means that all those file: // home/gemlog/Documents/Software/somefile (or w/e) links in various Joplin notes will still work, even when I'm sitting in a cafe downtown. I'm liking this a lot ! :-)
Just another thing I've found tailscale to be handy for. My home pc is 4-5 hops away from the modem that's at the curb to this house. Way too much of a pain to expose an ssh port, plus a dynamic ip, plus, well, the exposure! This is nice.
@gemlog How does your monica laptop find the maria PC? I mean, I understand it uses Tailscale, but how is it set up on monica? Does Tailscale work via a central server somewhere?