I really enjoy and appreciate the tailscale service, but this article didn't click for me. I love an inspiring CEO rally speech as much as the next early adopter, and agree that there is a ridiculous amount of developer friction and complexity in computing, but tailscale still has its own friction and isn't on track to solve the big picture issues _at all_.
As a concrete example, a few weeks ago, I invited my dad to my tailnet with the intent of using remote desktop into his machine to help him fix something. He accepted the invite, and then I couldn't ping his machine despite it appearing in my TS domain web interface.
Now he hates tailscale, and I lost credibility because prior I told him how awesome it is. In his view, it wasted his time and doesn't "work right", and metadat is a fool.
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