Tailscale running at full force during the night? - eviltoast

I keep having my phone completely drained of battery over night, and im not sure why… Each night the phone will easy chew through 30-40% battery. Only thing that helps is putting it in battery saving mode. But feels like a temporary solution.

The second most used app is at 7% percent usage.

Am running GrapheneOS, anyone else struggling with this?

    • Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.netOP
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      5 months ago

      Tailscale isn’t a classic vpn such as Proton and Mullvad. Tailscale crates a network between your own devices, but has Mullvad as an integration for those who want to run Mullvad as an exit node. I don’t need a vpn to mask my location, I need it to connect my devices together. I’ll look into using just wire guard instead though.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      No idea about those, but wireguard and openvpn were terrible for battery life, only ever used if I needed to access something at home

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        5 months ago

        As the apps or as the VPN service?

        I run both via VPN app and i have similar results to @astrsk

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            5 months ago

            ohh i see. i was walking phone.

            aint router CPU super underpowered? and it would manage a lot of move traffic?

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              5 months ago

              Nah don’t see that being factor, the small Mikrotik is handling it very well for my small homelab, and pfsense was running on stupidly overkill 8c16t / 32gb memory because didn’t have any more fitting hardware at that point

              Edit: the huge battery drain was on phone, with VPN client