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I don't think it's a good alternative.

Via https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop:

- "Since Taildrop is an alpha feature, you’ll need to opt your network in to the test to use it."

- "Taildrop is only available on Synology with Tailscale v1.18.2".

- "Currently that means you need to manually install Tailscale on your Synology NAS."

Taking Occam's Razor to it:

- Buy Enterprise™ hardware to use alpha software.

- "more secure" has a prefix of "maybe" and a suffix of "(?)" in the comment recommending it

I'm ruling it out altogether.

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You misunderstand this documentation. It is available on other platforms besides Synology; it's just also available on Synology which is a good thing.

You sure? "Taildrop is only available on Synology NAS" could certainly use some workshopping.

That's not the whole sentence. The whole sentence is:

"Taildrop is only available on Synology with Tailscale v1.18.2 or later."

That sentence is the first sentence under the "Setting up Taildrop on Synology" section of the documentation.

Am I sure that I've used Taildrop on my Android phone, Linux, Windows, Mac and Synology? Yes I am sure.

Maybe not great wording or arrangement of statements on that page since it seems to have stopped you in your tracks reading at that point, but you can scroll down and see discussion of using it on other platforms. What you're hyper-focused on is a subsection under the heading specifically dealing with Synology.

Geez, that was rude. I don't think assuming that the literally first requirement mentioned conditions the rest is "hyper focusing." It seems prudent to assume the rest are conditioned on it. It's not outlandish to assume you have to be on that style of network to use it, especially since the pitch is to enterprises for secure file transfer.

Taildrop is "a filetransfer for your personal devices", it only works if you have a Tailscale network transferring to QNAP/Synology is a nice feature. We all see thing from different perspectives it really helps to try understand why that might be.

You don't need any enterprise hardware to use taildrop.

> - "Taildrop is only available on Synology with Tailscale v1.18.2".

> - "Currently that means you need to manually install Tailscale on your Synology NAS."

Only apply if you're installing it ON Synology hardware, otherwise it is matter of installing the tailscale client and opting your network in.

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