How annoying is it to connect to VPN/use Tailscale instead of being able to access the service directly?

Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 34 points –

So I'm just being introduced to the concept of using a VPN or something like Tailscale to access one's services, instead of opening the services directly to the web, but I'm thinking for streaming purposes or just accessing your services on the run, isn't it an annoyance having to connect to your home network all the time? Or do you keep the VPN running on your phone for example? What if you use a VPN provider for privacy purposes, wouldn't one need to then switch VPN connection?

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I have gluetun+socks5 containea running, then in an app, I put in localip:port into a proxy field. Then that app will use that connection for internet. Browsers on desktop also support proxies. So if you want a specific browser to always use the VPN, this is a very simple way to do that.

https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/private-space

Thank you for pushing me into the rabbit hole. But gluetun already has a socks proxy server built in, if I read that correctly on their github.