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Added a second person to your tailnet and worried a bill is coming? Tailscale's free Personal plan covers 6 users with unlimited devices per user after the April 2026 rework — the real math on what's actually free and when Standard or Premium pays off.
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.
Money in Germany
Kfz-Versicherung premiums are up ~10% for 2026. Here's the Nov 30 deadline, the Sonderkündigungsrecht, and how to switch without losing your SF-Klasse.
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.
Tech
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.