Dirty old mountain all covered in smoke, she can turn you to stone so you better start doing it right.
–Genesis, “Dance on a Volcano”
Made it to a scout meeting tonight, first one this year I could attend and first one in a while (most of last year I was still having so much trouble with arthritis that even though it was after work, I had no energy to get a shower and leave in time). Hopped on the wireless there with my Chromebook and fired up Tailscale, and while I did have a hiccup or two at first, the rest of the evening my web traffic was coming from my own home network. It wasn’t necessary for security tonight – I didn’t care if my traffic was coming from the church’s wireless, and that wireless is encrypted as well – but it was a good experiment since that was the first time being somewhere outside of home where I could test it out. And I attribute some of the slowness I saw to the normal speed of the network there. So I’d say it was a success, and opens the doors for other things I’ll be able to do remotely now.