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I totally get why groups or organizations would use Tailscale instead of running their own secure environments in-house. Networking in a mesh is awesome.
What I haven't wrapped my head around yet is the usefulness of tailscale for individuals. What makes it better than just turning on my VPN? I can pass some data from one device to the other? I have 30 other ways to do that. Someone tell me what I'm missing here.