Looking for some new ways to use my phone beyond reading and comsuming media.

What are some advanced apps/uses that you guys are using?

  • InaudibleWhispers@discuss.onlineEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’ve used mine as a bridge to my home network if I want to access it from work. Use my phone as a hotspot, wireguard VPN from my phone to home network, then connect my work laptop to my phone’s hotspot.

    I already use cloudflared to expose a couple of hosted services that I commonly access remotely, but it’s nice to know I can use my phone/VPN as a quick way to get to my entire home network from any computer, without the network being publicly exposed 99.9% of the time

      • InaudibleWhispers@discuss.onlineEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I VPN to my pfsense firewall and there are a bunch of guides about how to set up OpenVPN or WireGuard for pfsense. Ultimately, it’s going to be dependent on the configuration of your home network - you can set up a VPN tunnel to your router if it supports that feature, or you can use an always-on device on your network to serve as a VPN server. Happy to give tips to point you in the right direction, depending on what hardware you’re running!

        • mFat@lemdro.idEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thanks. I run a mini pc (Asus PN40) at home running Jellyfin and a bunch of other services. I used to connect to it remotely using Wireguard and Tailscale but the Wireguard protocol (and virtually all vpn protocols) have been blocked where I live. As a result, I have to resort to using DDNS and port-forwarding on my main router, which feels like a step back.