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Tailscale's free tier caps out at 6 users. Headscale, Netbird, ZeroTier, and Twingate compared on real free-tier limits, self-hosting effort, and what switching actually costs.

Hotel wifi doesn't need to see your traffic. Setting up a Tailscale exit node so a phone or laptop routes through home instead — the two-command setup, the DNS-leak toggle most guides skip, and a real cost/speed comparison against a commercial VPN.

A subnet route sat approved in the admin console and still didn't work. The real-world install walkthrough across an Ubuntu server, a Raspberry Pi, and a Proxmox host/LXC — auth flow, MagicDNS, ACL tags, and the two gotchas (LXC's missing /dev/net/tun, the two-step route requirement) that actually cost time.
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Germany's 2027 pension reform replaces Riester with the Altersvorsorgedepot, letting savers hold ETFs with an optional (not mandatory) capital guarantee. A worked subsidy table shows a parent of two paying €1,800/year receives €1,140 back in state top-ups.

You started a plain ETF Sparplan - then Riester got scrapped for a state-subsidised ETF pension from 2027. Are you missing free government money? A worked 30-year break-even across a plain ETF Sparplan, Riester, and the new Altersvorsorgedepot shows exactly who each route suits.

A worked, original cost table shows what Hausratversicherung actually costs for 60/90/120 m² German flats, built from the 650 €/m² Versicherungssumme rule and real published Tarifzone rates — showing why an identical policy can cost 2–4x more depending only on postcode.
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Two things flip the old advice in 2026: Spotify now has real lossless audio, and Apple Music is cheaper on most tiers. A decision table routing you to the one factor that should decide it, plus links to the full sound-quality, price, and three-way breakdowns.

Spotify Family now costs $21.99/mo. A real cost and maintenance-time comparison against self-hosting Navidrome on hardware you already own, a dedicated Pi, or a cheap cloud VPS -- and when it's actually worth ditching streaming.

Every self-hosted apps roundup is an unvetted list with no honest 'skip this one.' Six categories actually tested on a homelab — AI chatbot, music, automation, Reddit, Git, and CI/CD — with real hardware cost and one category that isn't worth it for most people.