How I wired a jailbroken Kindle, KOReader, BookOrbit, and Tailscale into a small personal reading appliance, then tuned the KOReader plugins until it felt quiet enough to use.

If the personal stack is going to leave my Mac mini, it needs to be transport-agnostic, easy to pair, and graceful about fallbacks. Here is the shape that recommendation takes.

Tailscale's data plane is peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted. The control plane is not. Here is what that actually means, and what Headscale changes.